It was just too much today

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I should feel relieved, and of course I am relieved, but my relief is hidden somewhere in the back of my mind. All I can think of are the tears that fell today, from passionate, effective teachers...from kids who took a chance on loving their teacher...More than ever, now I feel like I never want to leave the children of this community, wondering how to take part in seeing that this insanity stops stripping passion and livelihood from innocent teachers, children, administrators, and our community.


What Carla Ranger (a favorite school board trustee) posted on her blog today, says it best:

Teachers Pay The Price
Today hundreds of teachers will be released.

Will this be done with dignity?

There is a crisis of public confidence.

Something is very wrongheaded at Dallas ISD.

This will not be corrected by releasing hundreds of teachers to relieve the latest financial chaos.

The problem will not be corrected by covering up the very serious financial mismanagement.

It cannot be undone by deception or solved by CEOs.

Dallas ISD has a spreading disease that has infected the institution with wrongheadedness.

It will not soon go away.

Someday, some way the Dallas Public School System must be reclaimed as an institution of integrity.

It will start with a Superintendent of Public Education who would like to be a servant leader of a public institution.

It will end with a Board truly committed to public service - not wrongheaded private agendas and unethical service.

Until then we say goodbye to the good teachers and staff who now pay the price.

May your lives be blessed in spite of the unjust price you now pay for the mistakes of others.

Thank you for your service.

We hope your loss will not be in vain.