YISD - Good Intentions, Bad Execution
I know I seem to be on a rant about school boards lately and I certainly don't want this blog to become a blog about school boards. Politics is my thing and I'll keep it there. But school boards in town have a lot of horror stories going on and since they are the biggest part of the tax bill, well someone needs to keep an eye on them.
Ysleta ISD had an agenda item last week that was very well intentioned. They decided that instead of throwing out food, to give it away to the needy. Why waste it if its already paid for right?
I think we can all agree that is a good idea.
The only problem I have with the idea is the fact that I think the food should go to students in the district first. Arlinda Valencia, who heads the Ysleta Teachers' Association actually summed it up best. There are students in the elementary level that get a cheese sandwich for lunch if they don't bring their lunch money or if their families don't have money to pay the bill.
High school students in the same predicament frequently just go without.
Teachers have asked for the non-perishable left-overs to be stored in their classrooms so that they can give their students in tutoring a snack. Why that specific policy is not reversed right now is beyond me. We are tax payers, we pay for that food. There is no legitimate reason that excess non-parishables are not kept for kids in tutoring. Any parent with a kid knows that when a kid comes home from school, they first thing they do after tossing their backpack in the middle of the floor instead of putting it away, is head to the 'fridge.
From a policy perspective, that makes much more sense. Take care of our own first, and if there is any left after that, then give it away.
Ysleta ISD had an agenda item last week that was very well intentioned. They decided that instead of throwing out food, to give it away to the needy. Why waste it if its already paid for right?
I think we can all agree that is a good idea.
The only problem I have with the idea is the fact that I think the food should go to students in the district first. Arlinda Valencia, who heads the Ysleta Teachers' Association actually summed it up best. There are students in the elementary level that get a cheese sandwich for lunch if they don't bring their lunch money or if their families don't have money to pay the bill.
High school students in the same predicament frequently just go without.
Teachers have asked for the non-perishable left-overs to be stored in their classrooms so that they can give their students in tutoring a snack. Why that specific policy is not reversed right now is beyond me. We are tax payers, we pay for that food. There is no legitimate reason that excess non-parishables are not kept for kids in tutoring. Any parent with a kid knows that when a kid comes home from school, they first thing they do after tossing their backpack in the middle of the floor instead of putting it away, is head to the 'fridge.
From a policy perspective, that makes much more sense. Take care of our own first, and if there is any left after that, then give it away.
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