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So HISD wasn't able to use the onsite defibrillator after a child had a seizure and the child passed.   The defib. was not maintained.   While this might be a stretch, remembed Miles fired the custodial staff this summer. 

I posted this in the DT thread as well.

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4 hours ago, Nivek said:

So HISD wasn't able to use the onsite defibrillator after a child had a seizure and the child passed.   The defib. was not maintained.   While this might be a stretch, remembed Miles fired the custodial staff this summer. 

I posted this in the DT thread as well.


fuck me, that poor kid 

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16 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:


fuck me, that poor kid 

There are serious real world consequences for putting outsiders and disruptors in charge of organizations that require serious people who are willing to do the boring work.   The shaking up of HISD has had detrimental consequences for many families and put a significant burden on people while chasing some fantasy of test scores.   

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, Nivek said:

There are serious real world consequences for putting outsiders and disruptors in charge of organizations that require serious people who are willing to do the boring work.   The shaking up of HISD has had detrimental consequences for many families and put a significant burden on people while chasing some fantasy of test scores.   

 

 

 


How the fuck didn’t they know cpr ???

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18 minutes ago, Nivek said:

Apparently, there are two other ISDs in the region that lost some special needs kids by placing them on random busses.   Republicanism in action yet again. 

Have they checked Martha's Vineyard?

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Ryan Walters decided to go against an Oklahoma law by refusing release millions of dollars given to school districts to bolster school security. Then proceeded to hide it by changing the language of the law on the state website.

no surprise that cover ups never go well. Today the OK AG issued a demand telling Walters to release the money and that he hopes that no child was hurt due to his negligence.

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Walters also held a presser wherein he told the OK lege to bring it on with impeachment. Bold move cotten… that just might pay off given OK is somehow even more of a shit show than Tx in most govt ways. 

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44 minutes ago, bluto said:

Walters also held a presser wherein he told the OK lege to bring it on with impeachment. Bold move cotten… that just might pay off given OK is somehow even more of a shit show than Tx in most govt ways. 

Unpossible.

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2 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Ryan Walters decided to go against an Oklahoma law by refusing release millions of dollars given to school districts to bolster school security. Then proceeded to hide it by changing the language of the law on the state website.

no surprise that cover ups never go well. Today the OK AG issued a demand telling Walters to release the money and that he hopes that no child was hurt due to his negligence.

Yet more evidence they were never interested in promoting school safety or "hardening" schools.     

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19 minutes ago, Nivek said:

Yet more evidence they were never interested in promoting school safety or "hardening" schools.     

Well the root problem is mental health, so I'm sure we will be completely funding mental health programs any minute now.

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In the category of too much detail, the OK legislature gave $50 million split over 3 years for school security. The law stated that a school district wasn’t required to take the money each year but rather roll their annual amounts over to year 2 or 3 especially in case of a security project that needed the full 3 years of funding. Walter’s decided that the rollover wasn’t clear in the law and removed the funding. What he was going to do with that windfall is unknown.

he did acknowledge their AG today and said he would give the money to the schools. What a great guy he is.

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17 hours ago, bluto said:

Walters also held a presser wherein he told the OK lege to bring it on with impeachment. Bold move cotten… that just might pay off given OK is somehow even more of a shit show than Tx in most govt ways. 

The Speaker is an old-school GOP type.  He knows/hopes MAGA is a temporary shit stain on his party.

He does everything according to decorum, custom, and agonizingly slowly, using proper channels, dotting every i, crossing every t.

He isn’t going to do anything Walters wants in this matter.

Walters will sink, but he will be powerless in how it happens.  

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KVUE is running a story about school finances. Pretty much every school district is being squeezed to death. This is what the Texas leadership wants. Destroy our society and transfer your tax dollars to private corporations. I can't wait until our emergency services are farmed out to private companies with zero accountability.  What a joke of a state we have allowed. But mahhhh freeedoms!! 

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On 8/21/2024 at 6:09 PM, HOOKEM4 said:

KVUE is running a story about school finances. Pretty much every school district is being squeezed to death. This is what the Texas leadership wants. Destroy our society and transfer your tax dollars to private corporations. I can't wait until our emergency services are farmed out to private companies with zero accountability.  What a joke of a state we have allowed. But mahhhh freeedoms!! 

My wife went from having an aide for half a day to her group of 4 teachers having zero aides total due to budget cuts this year. The principal is doing lunch monitoring this year for three hours a day.

 

It's working as intended though as my wife swears this is her last year and she's a bilingual teacher with her masters that will be replaced by 

 

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5 hours ago, SimonBolivar said:

My wife went from having an aide for half a day to her group of 4 teachers having zero aides total due to budget cuts this year. The principal is doing lunch monitoring this year for three hours a day.

 

It's working as intended though as my wife swears this is her last year and she's a bilingual teacher with her masters that will be replaced by 

 

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Boebert is going to be a popular teacher and will assuredly have an entry in the Teachers banging students thread,

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Now we learned why Ryan Walters, OK school commissioner, previously attempted to redirect money away from school safety projects. Now that the money has rightfully gone back to its legislative purpose of safety, Walters is forced to ask the state legislators for $3m to add to another $3m to buy new king James bibles for every OK classroom.

https://www.kgou.org/education/2024-09-26/oklahoma-superintendent-ryan-walters-wants-to-spend-6-million-on-classroom-bibles
 

we are not far from some southern states only teaching the Bible. Mike Johnson has said as much that you only need to read the Bible to know how the country should be run.

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28 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Now we learned why Ryan Walters, OK school commissioner, previously attempted to redirect money away from school safety projects. Now that the money has rightfully gone back to its legislative purpose of safety, Walters is forced to ask the state legislators for $3m to add to another $3m to buy new king James bibles for every OK classroom.

https://www.kgou.org/education/2024-09-26/oklahoma-superintendent-ryan-walters-wants-to-spend-6-million-on-classroom-bibles
 

we are not far from some southern states only teaching the Bible. Mike Johnson has said as much that you only need to read the Bible to know how the country should be run.

He's been told time and again that his office has no authority to tell schools districts what that have to teach, that's the local school boards job.  He'll get sued and the OK Supreme Court will rule against him.  

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1 hour ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Now we learned why Ryan Walters, OK school commissioner, previously attempted to redirect money away from school safety projects. Now that the money has rightfully gone back to its legislative purpose of safety, Walters is forced to ask the state legislators for $3m to add to another $3m to buy new king James bibles for every OK classroom.

https://www.kgou.org/education/2024-09-26/oklahoma-superintendent-ryan-walters-wants-to-spend-6-million-on-classroom-bibles
 

we are not far from some southern states only teaching the Bible. Mike Johnson has said as much that you only need to read the Bible to know how the country should be run.

I wonder who in his family is in the business of selling bibles. 

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OK Superintendent Ryan Walters' requirements for bibles are hard to meet but guess what?

'Trump Bible' one of few that meet Walters' criteria for Oklahoma classrooms

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2024/10/04/donald-trump-supported-bible-one-of-few-that-meets-ryan-walters-criteria-for-ok-classrooms/75510021007/

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Superintendent Ryan Walters isn’t just talking about buying Bibles for schools. 

Bids opened Monday for a contract to supply the state Department of Education with 55,000 Bibles. According to the bid documents, vendors must meet certain specifications: Bibles must be the King James Version; must contain the Old and New Testaments; must include copies of the Pledge of Allegiance, Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights; and must be bound in leather or leather-like material.

A salesperson at Mardel Christian & Education searched, and though they carry 2,900 Bibles, none fit the parameters. 

But one Bible fits perfectly: Lee Greenwood’s God Bless the U.S.A. Bible, endorsed by former President Donald Trump and commonly referred to as the Trump Bible. They cost $60 each online, with Trump receiving fees for his endorsement. 

Mardel doesn’t carry the God Bless the U.S.A. Bible or another Bible that could meet the specifications, the We The People Bible, which was also endorsed by Donald Trump Jr. It sells for $90. 

“The RFP on its face seems fair, but with additional scrutiny, we can see there are very few Bibles on the market that would meet these criteria, and all of them have been endorsed by former President Donald Trump,” Oklahoma Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Executive Director Colleen McCarty said.

Former Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson said the request for proposals might violate state law.

“It appears to me that this bid is anything but competitive,” Edmondson said. “It adds to the basic specification other requirements that have nothing to do with the text. The special binding and inclusion of government documents will exclude almost all bidders. If the bid specs exclude most bidders unnecessarily, I could consider that a violation.” 

Separation of church and state concerns aside, much less expensive Bibles are readily available. Paperback versions of the New King James Version are available online for $2.99 each, less than 5% of what the Trump-endorsed Bible would cost. There are many free Bible apps, too. 

Though Walters has frequently said he wants Bibles in every classroom, he has also clarified publicly that he wants them in classes where the Bible might apply to academic standards, such as history or literature. The request for 55,000 copies doesn’t fit either scenario; there are only 43,000 classroom teachers in the state, and many fewer teaching just history or literature.

If the Bibles cost $60 each, and the state buys 55,000, that’s $3.3 million.

Walters: No ‘extra things’

On Sept. 26, Walters asked for $3 million to purchase Bibles for Oklahoma classrooms as part of his agency’s fiscal year 2026 budget request to the Oklahoma Legislature. 

“We have talked about ensuring that our history courses include the role the Bible played throughout American history,” Walters said. “We’ve talked about the efforts of left-wing groups and the teachers’ unions to drive the Bible out of school. I believe it’s important for historical context for our kids to understand the role the Bible played.” 

He said the request was in conjunction with $3 million the agency was already putting forth to provide Bibles in the classroom. In a discussion with the board at the meeting, Walters said he wanted to issue an RFP and wanted the King James version of the Bible. 

“We don’t want extra things in there; historical documents are fine,” Walters said. “If it’s the King James version and the Constitution, the Magna Carta, things like that, that are also in statute that can be used in the classroom, that’s fine. But we don’t want commentary around the Bible because this is to serve as a historical reference document.”

Bidding opened to fast-track Oklahoma classroom Bibles

Walters said finding a Bible vendor should go through the competitive bidding process because that would be the cleanest, easiest way to choose.

The board did not discuss purchasing Bibles with the current budget year appropriation. However, the state issued the solicitation Monday, and it’s open for just two weeks. The Office of Management and Enterprise Services typically recommends at least four weeks. 

Dan Isett, Walters' spokesman, said their intention with the RFP is to get Bibles distributed to classrooms as quickly as possible. 

Isett said the $3 million is coming from payroll savings.

“OSDE has realized significant personnel and administrative cost savings that can be directed toward this program,” he said. 

At least 130 people have resigned or been fired since Walters took office in 2023, according to The Oklahoman. 

‘Trump has praised our efforts’ 

In June, Walters announced a mandate that a Bible should be in every Oklahoma classroom, though it’s unlikely he would have the authority to enforce that. The Oklahoma Supreme Court affirmed that school districts maintain local control over curricula. Some superintendents across the state have said they do not intend to add the Bible to their curriculum. 

“We will not be forcing our teachers to do this,” Bixby Superintendent Rob Miller said on News Nation on Aug. 12. “As a Christian myself, the idea of diminishing the word of God to a mere classroom prop is a little repulsive to me, so we will not be complying with that directive of having a physical Bible in every classroom.” 

Walters has been touting his Bible plan to local and national groups. In these interviews, he talks more about Christianity than history. 

In one interview this week, Walters claimed Democrats plan to teach kids to hate their country as well as Christianity and Judaism and said his Bible initiative is an antidote to that.  

“We are going to be so proud here in Oklahoma to be the first state in the country to bring the Bible back to every single classroom and every state should be doing this.… President Trump praised our efforts. President Trump has been the leader on this issue.”

Walters is a frequent guest on conservative podcasts, radio shows and TV stations. His agency has a $60,000 per year contract with D.C.-based Vought Strategies to book him for national interviews weekly.

Walters endorsed Trump, and many onlookers surmise he’s angling for a cabinet position if Trump wins in November. 

Trump licenses his name, image and likeness to be used in the Greenwood Bible’s marketing. The company’s website says it has no connection to the Trump campaign.

Financial disclosure forms filed by Trump at the Office of Governmental Ethics show he does benefit from Greenwood Bible sales through a Trump company, CIC Ventures LLC. His latest disclosure, obtained by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, shows Trump received $300,000 in royalties from the God Bless the U.S.A. Bible. 

Oklahoma Democratic Party Chair Alicia Andrews said Walters is attempting to endear himself to Trump via the RFP for such a specific Bible. “For (Walters) to craft this RFP, to specifically identify this Bible, this document that the state taxpayers would spend money on, either is a dereliction of duty, a dereliction of stewardship or maybe it is a … signal to former President Trump: ‘Hey, hey, I’m on your team, sir,’” Andrews said.

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14 hours ago, pacman said:

You thought it was a joke..Walters putting in his bid for federal appointment under Trump

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the chiense factory can slap that together asap. has trump even shipped a bible yet ? does the fine print state the usual - this item may or may not ship 

they’ll cut trumps price by 30% 

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On a more local level, our very well regarded principal got the axe from Miles a couple days ago and is now hitting the news.

We are supposed recertify as an IB school but the NES curriculum doesn't really allow for that.  Our principal pushed back and well, now she's on "administrative leave"

https://abc13.com/post/houston-isd-has-few-answers-parents-questioning-harvard-elementary-school-principals-leave-ongoing-investigation/15409427/ 

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