Posted on February 16, 2011
‘Greater than good’ news at BISD? Not really.
This entry originally appeared in The Beaumont Enterprise.
Remember when the National Center for Educational Achievement recently placed more than half of BISD’s campuses on their “Higher Performing Schools” list? If not, we wrote about it here.
That was the good news.
The “greater than good” news is that – according to Jessie Haynes – the NCEA has, for unknown reasons, had a change of heart and has decided to start handing out Higher Performing School recognitions like sticky candy from a suspicious guy in an unmarked van who wears a trenchcoat in the summertime and likes to hang around playgrounds, muttering to himself.
Yeah. It’s like that. Read More
Posted on February 14, 2011
Facebook Valentine
Today is Monday. It is also Valentine’s Day, which means the universe either really hates or totally adores single people. I’m undecided, but I’m pretty sure I’m off the hook, either way.
Married people celebrate Valentine’s Day differently than other Facebook relationship statuses. We don’t go in for all the lovey-dovey stuff, choosing instead to quietly affirm our affections in private, more intimate ways. At least, this is what husbands tell their wives when they rent a romantic movie for a buck at the Redbox, then come home and “watch” it with her while we play games on our phones and scratch ourselves in inappropriate places. Read More
Posted on February 8, 2011
BISD is the best little schoolhouse in Texas
This entry originally appeared in The Beaumont Enterprise.
Taking a proactive role in doing their public relations job for them, we spent a few minutes this morning digging around Beaumont ISD’s website to see if could we find anything interesting. And we did.
Here’s the headline: “More than half BISD schools rated among state & nation’s Higher Performing Schools” – Wow! More than half?! State and nation?! This is great news! So why wasn’t this press release plastered on all those billboards dotting the SETX landscape with the beaming mug of Big Brother Fearless Leader The Great General Dr. Carrol Thomas smiling down upon us? Well…
Words and numbers don’t always mean what BISD thinks they mean. Read More
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