After our Superintendent-in-Training's miserable failure before, during and after Hurricane Ike, we once again find her and her minions scrambling to reconfigure the district yet again .

They've concocted yet another smoke screen in the forms of a "Fifth Grade College Prep program" and the "Early College High School" program. There are few details regarding for what exactly this program will strive. But even the names force ones eyeballs to roll back into their heads.

And they've invited us to a Public Input Meeting on Wednesday, January 7 at 6:30 p.m. at Ball High School to discuss. Discuss what? We don't even know what these programs are nor what the status of the district clean-up is!

And there will be an informational meeting on the Fifth Grade College Prep program at Weis on Thursday, January 8 at 6 p.m. Shouldn't this have come before the Public Input Meeting? Or are we not allowed to give input on the new programs?

We have had a terrible, devastating Hurricane that has flooded our schools, uprooted and displaced families, drastically reduced the enrollment in GISD and these bozos are creating new programs?

How about let's stabilize the district? Let's get a plan to reduce overcrowding at Weis, although at one of the early board meetings after Ike, Cleveland was adamant to Mytelka that Weis had no overcrowding problems! If you have to move students, the DAEP back to Alamo, move the 5th and 6th grade to San Jacinto and keep the 7th and 8th graders at Weis with the football facility and where they should have been in the first place.

SIDE NOTE: Anyone else notice that they are no longer showing the Board Meetings on Cleveland State TV? Hmmmm. Supposedly for technical problems. Yet every picture there ever was with her heinous is still being shown on that channel. No, I think they are afraid to show the Board Meetings especially now that Beau Rawlins is up there asking questions! YIKES!!

Watch out Beau.....

GISD Fembots

 Hurricane Ike's devastation took everyone by surprise. No one on the entire Island ever planned for this. But instead of making up silly programs to relieve overcrowding and deal with the enrollment, how about stopping and developing a logical plan?

With this new program, you are going to ask parents who are already dealing with insurance claims, job stability, housing issues, displacement, FEMA, city permits and re-building their lives to APPLY for a seat in their city's public school system? Are you completely and utterly out-of-touch with reality?

How about getting your collective heads out of Proctor's numbers and financial mayhem and move as few students as you have to to relieve the overcrowding, use the facilities you already have like San Jacinto and Alamo and stop stressing the few remaining families that you have out of the district? Stop moving these students around! They have enough stability issues as we rebuild as it is!!

You're barely getting the Magnet School off-the-ground and you are going to mess that up, too. You have "stepped in it" BIG TIME and now all you're doing is spreading the mess around!

BOARD MEMBERS - WHERE ARE YOU??? If you don't have the time or the guts to deal with this mess without completely disemboweling the district, then PLEASE RESIGN and let us get some people who will listen to the remaining parents and not the bean counters!

You will depend on the fact that everyone is too tired, too stressed and too timid to come to your stupid public forums. And you will rely on the fact that for the past 2 "public" issues, you've completely ignored us and everyone is laughing at this latest circus.

Parents and Citizens, if you can't come to the Public Input Meeting on Wednesday, please let the Board Members know how you feel and get others to do so as well.

Kelly Chambers didn't think we wanted a tax refund because she wasn't getting any e-mails although Tax Assessor Cheryl Johnson was getting hundreds. So, if you are concerned with the direction of the district, shoot Chambers and the other Board Members an e-mail so it will be in writing. And then they can't come back and say "no one spoke out against it".

And just remember, as we clean up from Ike that we can clean up the School Board in November of 2009, too!!