Coming to a School District Near You?

 Reason number 455 to be glad I am retired from teaching....

Dallas-Ft. Worth area school district Carroll ISD ( Rich folks, South Lake Carroll HS) has added a phrase to the teacher's contracts saying-

"You agree to not disparage, criticize, or defame the District, and its employees or officials, to the media,” 

Feck 'em.

They are a government entity. They are subject to criticism by anyone including employees in the district.In this writer's opinion, this is unconstitutional.

Hell, I taught in a district in which the Supt. of Schools got caught in graft and taking kickbacks during a school district bond program. The construction company building the new high school built him a new pool. ( Among other things such as "vacations.")

The Supt. of Schools got to visit the " Texas State Bed and Breakfast in Huntsville" for a few years. 

It was teachers who reported him to the District Attorney's Office. 

With the clause in the contract at Carroll ISD, you can't do that.  

Watch your government entities close....Even if you "know" the people running the entity.