Teachers complain Key Middle School still unsafe By JENNIFER RADCLIFFE Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle HISD Superintendent Abelardo Saavedra said Thursday he's considering tearing down and maybe rebuilding Key Middle School, just months after the school district spent $3 million improving the trouble-plagued building. Saavedra said he plans to decide soon whether to repair or replace the school. ''I'm prepared to relocate the students before the start of next school year on a permanent basis, if need be,'' he told a crowd of Key Middle School parents and employees who attended Thursday's school board meeting. ''That decision's going to have to be made very quickly.'' Employees said HISD's effort to repair the building, where some staff members continue to report feeling ill, has been in vain. "Plants could survive in these conditions, but not humans,'' English teacher Debra Berry said. ''The taxpayers of the community deserve a safe place for their children to learn.'' Physical education teacher Sheri Teinert said the district's philosophy so far has been to ''patch it, wipe it, cover it, deny it and then hide it under paint. ... We have been treated as cheaters and liars. Now it's time a treat us as human beings,'' she said. Several community members told Saavedra they'd like to see the school rebuilt on its current location. They asked him not to move the middle schoolers into the nearby Kashmere High School campus. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5767177.html --- HISD has too much money. I feel bad for the kids cause they don't see it.
Wtf? Can someone fill in the backstory? Why do people feel ill there? The chron is now saying, btw, that rebuiling is not an option.
I think mold was growing in the school and it contaminated the ducts and walls. HISD closed the school while it renovated instead of rebuilding from the start. Apparently the problem still exists.
I would get sick allll the times if I worked at that school. I'm allergic to mold. That is a lot of money to be wasted if it is torn down and rebuilt.
By state law, the funds for buildings and maintenance are completely separated from the funds for things like payroll. Don't worry. This will have zero impact on your paycheck.
Wow, that does make sense! from that site: The Peter Principle is a special case of a ubiquitous observation: anything that works will be used in progressively more challenging applications until it fails. This is "The Generalized Peter Principle." It was observed by Dr. William R. Corcoran in his work on Corrective Action Programs at nuclear power plants. He observed it applied to hardware, e.g., vacuum cleaners as aspirators, and administrative devices such as the "Safety Evaluations" used for managing change. There is much temptation to use what has worked before, even when it may exceed its effective scope. Dr. Peter observed this about humans. In an organizational structure, the Peter Principle's practical application allows assessment of the potential of an employee for a promotion based on performance in the current job, i.e. members of a hierarchical organization eventually are promoted to their highest level of competence, after which further promotion raises them to incompetence. That level is the employee's "level of incompetence" where the employee has no chance of further promotion, thus reaching his or her career's ceiling in an organization. The employee's incompetence is not necessarily exposed as a result of the higher-ranking position being more difficult — simply, that job is different from the job in which the employee previously excelled, and thus requires different work skills, which the employee usually does not possess. For example, a factory worker's excellence in his job can earn him promotion to manager, at which point the skills that earned him his promotion no longer apply to his job
Depending on the school, teachers and students. For example the high school I went to a while back have average SAT score of 1200 plus, 96% graduation rate and 95% college enrollment rate.
