EPISD School Closures: A Screw Job to Community

The more I dive into this EPISD closure movida the more the whole thing disgusts me. It really makes you understand the adage that "ignorance is bliss".

Lets cut to the quick - the community was promised long ago that anyone going from a closed school would be going to a better one. That simply isn't true. Its a huge broken promise and there is a false urgency deliberately created to cram these closures down the community's throat.

Beall Elementary school is on the chopping block. The kids will go to either Zavala or Douglas. Neither of those schools are in good condition. The board, and frankly more disappointingly, the majority of the trustees, apparently don't have the slightest problem with closing barrio schools and cramming the kids in to other substandard schools.

But hey, they are just poor Mexicans that don't vote right? I mean its not like they have to power to do anything about it right? Lets just run over them because theres no ramification, amirite?

Seriously, how can the union bosses be okay with this? I hope they are going to come out against this at the next meeting because the community is counting on them to hold the board accountable, not be cooperative with the screw job.

And don't get me started on the fact that there are schools scheduled to be closed that have new playgrounds that were just put in. That is the most EPISD thing ever. Its honestly not a big deal, but its the personification of what a fluster cuck this all is.

Rusk Elementary is scheduled to be closed and those kids are going to go to Travis. That school is so old that I think Colonel Travis may still have been in command at the Alamo when that school was built.

But the most surprising is Moye. That is the school in the Devil's Triangle area. That damn thing is less than 10 years old. There are basically no real issues with capacity at that school.

You think a charter school isn't going to jump right into that location?

Seriously these closures aren't doing anything but helping charter schools.

But wait until you hear this little nugget...

The narrative that is being pushed by Hatch and his Hatchlings is that the closures are necessary because of budget shortfalls, which total $7 million.

Do you know how much money is being saved by these closures? About $600k.

So all these closures and it only amounts to around 8.6% of the budge shortfall. That means these closures aren't about the budget, or they need to get some new bean counters on Boeing.

The public deserves answers. Go to these meetings to demand them. Most of the trustees are on social media, engage them there. Some of them like Al Velarde are encouraging feedback and dialogue. Others like Mickey Loweree are deleting anyone that asks anything that look like a difficult question.