So How Does the Business Community Feel About Hinojosa's Likely Departure For Georgia?

• Hinojosa's gonna crap on the half that Sherman missed 

•  The same idiotic reasons we fly council members to Spain and who the hell knows where else?

• Hello? It's the teachers, the students, and the parents that have done what made the difference. We're still here, so the improvements you've seen will continue even as they search for the next Dallas Achieves flunkie.

•  Sherman burned down half the state, hasn't it suffered enough?

• "...the Dallas Regional Chamber has spent money flying the super and other trustees to Denver, Houston and Los Angeles to study their charter schools in the hopes of importing some of those ideas to Dallas." Why, in this era of telephones, internet, and video-conferencing, is it necessary to jet an entourage around the country to "study" how to make education work? Wasn't this guy hired because of some sort of qualification to do that? DISD Teacher is right. We should just bulldoze 3700 Ross and plant a community garden for all the good those asshats do.

• My guess would be because he has shown his willingness to do the bidding of the Dallas Citizens Cartel. Cobb County's Cartel probably wants someone who will expedite the transfer of tax money intended for kids to builders, developers, and vendors.  

• Why would Cobb County, GA want Hiney?  They are only 11% Hispanic.  56% Anglo.  30% African American.  

• Of course, and I have to steer a bit, but in a more walkable city, with complete neighborhoods with schools as integral parts of those neighborhoods we could save on busing, have less centralized schools with huge, impersonal classrooms, and their could be more direct teacher to student interaction.

• Seriously.  Let teachers do their job.  Let them be creative in their own right, in figuring out how to best teach appropriate and customized to each individual, each class, as is needed. Less thumbs on them.  Let them stray from the curriculum if it gets results.  Less teaching to the test. 

•  I assume this is Cobb County which is a populated and wealthy area...and they're paying 100K less than DISD?!  Says a good bit about both, methinks.

• The Chamber, probably the same types who are in favor of bridges and a city-owned hotel, need to STOP DOING BUSINESS AS USUAL. They need to visit schools, gather a team of teachers, AND PLAN FROM THE BOTTOM UP. Top-down does not work with school districts. How many more decades of Soviet-style central-planning failures do we need in education? Teachers will show them how to turn this district around. Not the lazy nepotism hires or the race-based hires or the crony hires, but the many outstanding DISD teachers WHO WORK WITH KIDS EVERY DAY. Free us from the suffocating, ineffective policies and "ideas" coming from administrators like Hinojosa and Durant and watch us set these kids free.  Didn't a school board member say the Chamber and Dallas Citizens Cartel pressured them to extend Hinojosa's contract?  In spite of the endless stream of failures and scandals and misspending? Memo to Oberwetter:  You have no idea what you're doing.  Look at what you all have done so far.  It isn't working.  And be very wary of the education profiteers who come selling magic bullets, be they TFA, charter schools, on-line learning, or whomever else.

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