Comments on: The Roof! The Roof! The Roof is on Fire

By: Unworthy Bum

Unworthy Bum — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:52:34 +0000

Fred – This is a blog demanding that a wealthy, well-connected state representative who skipped into east Dallas fairly recently do his damned job. That’s it.

Is that seriously how you define hate? If so, I’d like to work for you. Feet up on my desk, soft music, maybe a fruity adult beverage while I wait for the next payday…

By: fred

fred — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:46:57 +0000

I see that I wandered into a ‘hate Vaught’ site – I voted mostly Republican except for Vaught, so I have no agenda against Keffer or most any other Republican.

I am doing more than hope, I am very proactive and have written to TEA commisssioner three times, the mayor, my state reps and lt. governor and governor. Also I have called ICE, Homeland Security and the FBI Dallas office about the SS#s.

By: District 107 Citizen

District 107 Citizen — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:46:42 +0000

Hope is campaign rhetoric, Unworthy Bum. I heard a program about Samuel Adams today on NPR, and this reminds me of what he was doing. Exciting the people to think about their how their money is spent and by whom. If you got one person to contact their congress person to say, “enough! We need programs that help our children not hurt them. We need schools that work for us, not against us” then you are doing much more than those sitting idly by, hoping, when the system is failed. Fred, I suggest you take your hope and turn it into proactivity. This is not good enough, Fred! The time is now for innovative change. I mean my god, if the person you hate, Bill Keffer, can effect innovative change without even trying, imagine what your golden boy, Vaught could do, if he actually stopped cowtowing to the lawyer groups and Parent PACs and listened and walked around some of these schools. The time for change is now.

By: Unworthy Bum

Unworthy Bum — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:06:09 +0000

The election is over. My kid is back in public school where I wanted him all along, and it’s thanks to Bill Keffer. I could say it a million times and not get through to folks with fingers stuck in their ears.

You keep hoping, Fred. Good luck with that.

I’ll keep suggesting specific areas where improvements could be made. Watch your state representative boo hoo that there’s not enough money for this or that pilot program. Watch him avoid any conversations about cutting off private law firms from education dollars. If I’m wrong, let him prove it.

I’ll hope with you, Fred. I’ll hope Allen Vaught proves me wrong and does something meaningful and proactive for these neighborhood schools.

By: fred

fred — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:26:30 +0000

Vaught has two children who will attend public schools in East Dallas/Lakewood, so he does have a dog in the fight. I am not happy about the current DISD situation (but I still support my schools and will not leave them) . I am hoping for the TEA or some other movement to break up the district. Vaught knows that many people are upset has he has been at some of the affected schools on almost a day-to-day basis.

I personally trust him to do the right thing by our area. Keffer was stuck in RISD and didn’t seem to care about other areas.

By: Pretty please

Pretty please — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:24:25 +0000

Looks like Vaught has moved into a regular house of cards that is quickly tumbling. Hope that McMansion has a more solid foundation that his platform supporting a network of local public schools made up of far too many common criminals stealing from children, doing drugs, choking kids, masterminding identity theft scams, trashing current brand new textbooks (ever heard of recycling or all those disenfranchised homeschoolers in District 107?) and living large on the public dime.

Some serious housecleaning needs to be done. Maybe Vaught will be so generous as to share his personal McMansion housekeeping staff with District 107 to clean up our schools.