“Allen Vaught unquestionably supports public education and is proactive in finding solutions that improve and strengthen our neighborhood public schools.”

- Pam Meyercord, Texas Parent PAC

Ready for this? Here’s the latest from Truett Trailer Park deep in the heart of District 107:

This school in Allen Vaught country is begging for $10K from a private company’s “shittiest school in America” competition. If you’d like to vote for Truett Elementary as the shittiest school in America and help them get $10K from Big Lots, please click here and vote 3 times a day until July 12.

Be sure to watch the video, because there are some things I’d like you to notice aside from the obvious which I profiled in Welcome to Truett Trailer Park last year.

First, please take note of the many spelling errors in this very public video. Go ask the principal, Tiffany Nemec, for a tour of Truett and ask yourself if you would be willing to work in those conditions. I am not saying that everyone who works at Truett is incapable of spelling “poses” but the best and brightest simply are not going to work in conditions that set everyone involved up to fail and fail hard.

Truett Elementary

I’d also like you to notice the comparison with Bishop Lynch High School which sits right across Inadale from Truett Trailer Park. I was saving this for a rainy day, but let’s go ahead and compare these schools now.

Bishop Lynch

The contrast between Bishop Lynch and Truett is stark on the surface. But when you look at the numbers, there’s not a huge difference. The average per pupil amount in the state of Texas is $10,162 and Bishop Lynch tuition is $10,400.

However, for that $250 difference, Bishop Lynch has been able to expand to meet the needs of the student population (3 times in the past 10 years), work with the community to forge healthy relationships and turn out a bunch of well-educated kids who are prepared for college. The facilities and landscaping are a source of pride in our neighborhood, and thankfully block the view of the Truett trailers for people passing down Ferguson.

Bishop Lynch isn’t perfect. There have been financial scandals that hurt the school, but the problems are resolved by firing thieves and tightening financial oversight. Parent and student satisfaction is watched closely, because the parents have the option to leave. They are not tethered to Bishop Lynch, and when they leave, the money follows them. It would be ridiculous to pay for something you do not use.

So what’s the real difference in these schools, District 107? How much of that $10,162 is actually making it to Truett Trailer Park? I don’t have an exact number for that, but it is less than $5K.

Do you remember last fall when I was trying to figure out what exactly a voucher is? If not, it’s here. If you are still confused, you aren’t alone. Here’s more.

Here’s where I’m going with this. In a strange turn of events, something emerged from this past legislative session. Allen Vaught and his gang of *waaah SB 1000 is a voucher* Tools put together a bill called HB 130.

HB 130 has done something huge for our state by providing a working definition of the word voucher from the anti-voucher folks themselves.

HB 130 was the same as SB 1000 with one key difference: The administration got a cut of the kids’ cash. HB 130 was cool with using public education cash to send kids to private schools. Religious schools were not excluded, so that’s cool, too.

Here’s the difference between Truett Trailer Park and Bishop Lynch, District 107: Bishop Lynch spends that money in the classroom. Truett spends that money on an administration that has proven over and over again that it is a terrible steward of our children’s money and quite possibly a front for a crime syndicate.

A proactive solution for Truett Elementary, Mr. Vaught, would be to cut out that waste and send the $10,162 directly to Tiffany Nemec.

But that is a voucher, according to Vaught himself. If the administration doesn’t get their mitts on the money designated for the neighborhood school, it is suddenly an SB 1000 situation, not an HB 130.

Let me tweak Pam Meyercord’s thoughts on Allen Vaught to reflect the actual situation:

“Allen Vaught unquestionably supports our corrupt administration and is proactive in finding solutions that protect the adults who exist off our taxes at the expense of the children in our failing and dangerous neighborhood schools.”

Don’t forget to vote for Truett as the crappiest school in America for the next few days. Thanks to Allen Vaught and his proactive solutions for our District 107 neighborhood schools we may actually win! Go District 107 – let’s be the best at being the worst!