I Get Chewed Out " Big Time" By Buna People in the Last Few Days.....

 And there are people reading the title getting so excited they are wetting their pants thinking it is members of the " Clique." (That according to the " Clique" does not exist.) But instead, it is regular blog readers. 

Sometimes I feel like Michael in the " Godfather III" being pulled back in.....BY the way, that is the only decent part of " Godfather III" it's the worst movie of the Godfather Trilogy. 

Again, I get to speak for people who cannot afford to speak openly. And to be honest, there are times I feel like I should not, and this is one of those times. 

The new principal at the high school, while being "sold" as an outsider, actually has ties to the ISD. 

Her father was my principal, my last principal when I was still working, and to be honest, he let me do whatever I wanted to do down in the senior end. It wasn't like I was going to execute an out of control senior, but I really pushed it to the limits until I realized, " Kerry Don, you can retire in 2011, you better not push that envelope too hard and blow it within the grasp of victory" ( retirement)....So, I took my foot off the petal. A little anyway. Those were the old " Glory Days" of what was referred to as the " Cuss Porch." ( There was less cussing going on than most people know. It was a good place to talk with seniors about anything from " Mr. Thomas, am I graduating?" To things as " My sister , (whom I had also taught, ) is dating a sorry, worthless guy, who uses her as a sex toy." He was bringing his friend over to have sex with her...." ( We got her away from the sorry so & so.)

I digress.  

So, we are now hiring his child like they have no ties to the school district......AND.......

Look at the family tree......Look at the board.......How are we doing this? ........Are they really the best choice or is this another " Brother in Law" deal, which the school district is notorious of doing????? 

One of y'all need to say something.  

Even if it is legal, and way I read it, it is not, I have questions there........AND....

It is a bad look. 

Really bad. The elected official should resign. And the patrons of the community should be asking for their resignation....

I am going to talk a little about an event that happened to me right before the school district which I retired from hired me low those many years ago. 

I so wanted the Gov/Eco position at the school I graduated from in the 1970s. I interviewed for it in the early 1990s when it came open. my curriculum vitae( CV) looked good. I had taught AP European History, AP US History, AP Macroeconomics, I had the certification, I had double digit years of experience. My first round of interviews went well. I knew I was going to get the job. 

Between my first and second round of interviews, I found out about another candidate.....They had a surname I did not. They were in the " clique."  

My Mom and Dad are/were ( Dad has since passed) wonderful people. They are in an area not associated with the " Clique." The music world, yes, but political, school, they are not. Never mind my mother taught 4th and 5th grade for 39 years. My Dad, was not a politician. He saw them and phonies, and while he is correct in that sense, it doesn't help in the real world. Sad, but true. It is part of the reason my brother had to move 350 miles away to run for office. Again, sad, but true, he had to make a name on his own, without attachments. 

The district of course hired the other person with " The Name." 

Not going to lie, even though I knew it was coming, I was crushed. I cried alone in the dark for about a week.  

It was 3 weeks later the district I retired from called and went through 3 rounds of interviews. I went in dressed up like a member of the House of Lords, pinstriped suits, and in truth, did not give my best interview. I sort of needed a job, but if I don't get hired here, well, there is another school up the road. 

And dadgum if they did not hire me....A job I expected to stay at for a year, at most.....I stayed 20. Until I retired. My late hardcore Presbyterian Grandfather would say, " You were foreordained."  

You may say, " Well, it worked out for you" but in many cases, it doesn't. And leaves many more questions than answers.  

And they might become the best principal the district ever had....But how it occurred, well it has questions....

As one patron of the community, the ISD wrote me...." I think we have we and more importantly, who we voted for has lost control of the district."  

Another wrote " We certainly are paying a lot in property taxes to be the personal job bank for people with ties to the district."