Most kids in AISD can’t read. AISD is failing our Austin children. Look at this chart and weep. It shows third-grade reading proficiency in each AISD elementary school. (Each green circle represents an elementary school. For comparison sake, each blue triangle represents an elementary school in Eanes ISD, a wealthy neighboring district. The underlying data […]
AISD: Lies, Damn Lies, Pamphlets, and CRT
A Social and Emotional (SEL) teacher in Austin ISD proudly tweeted this picture yesterday. It’s a pamphlet made by some middle-school students to teach their peers about Equal Pay Day. Sadly, the kids have been taught a lie. And it only takes one question to expose the lie: Look at the groups of women listed. […]
AISD: A 2022 Retrospective on Masking
On March 2, 2022, the Austin ISD Board of Trustees finally voted to end their mask mandate. Their decision was made months after similar decisions in other local school districts. As we move away from masking in AISD, let’s take a look back at the absurdity that’s taken place in the district in the last […]
Introducing a List of Qs for the EISD Election
Eanes ISD School Board elections are just three months away. Campaigns are about to fire up. So it’s time to start asking questions. Let’s have an intelligent conversation about pressing issues in Eanes. This is the beginning of a continuing series #QsfortheEISDElection. I will be posting questions here for the incumbents about the policies that […]
#QsfortheEISDElection
Here are questions for Ellen Balthazar and Heather Sheffield, incumbents who are up for re-election on the EISD Board of Trustees. Please bookmark this page as I will be regularly adding new questions. If you would like to discuss these questions or propose additional ones, please send DearEanes an email at protonmail.com. Or join me […]
Even They Don’t Believe Their Own BS
Regarding DEI, the powers-that-be in Eanes ISD don’t believe their own bullshit. Not the Eanes School Board. Not outgoing Superintendent Leonard. And most especially not the DEI con$ultant. How do we know? Because they put Linda Rawlings in charge. I see your mouth has dropped to the floor. “Wait!” you ask, “Linda Rawlings, the former […]
The Breath of the Beast
I know when I first felt the breath of the beast on the back of my neck. It was early November, around 2008, before any Critical Theory had bubbled into the real world. I didn’t quite understand what I was hearing. But I knew it was bad. I was getting a haircut at a salon, […]
Hiding the Woke at TASB
Well! Someone at TASB got a clue! Someone must have figured out that the Texas Association of School Boards should NOT be publicly recommending the wokest of woke resources to the state’s school boards. But thankfully for us, the wayback machine has recorded the TASB recommendations that were there through the end of 2021 but […]
Eanes Has a Gender-Ideology Problem
Eanes, like so many districts, has a problem with gender ideology. It’s infecting the District. Seven data points. 1. The DEI consultant’s survey. The DEI consultant sent out a survey to all District employees. His first question: “What is your gender? MaleFemaleNon-binaryFill in the blank” The Eanes School Board did not prevent their DEI guy […]
Et tu, Leander?
The Leander School Board just hired their first ever chief of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. He was previously the DEI guy across the road in Round Rock ISD. (Both are north Austin suburbs.) What are odds that, before they hired him, Leander asked the new DEI guy to prove he had improved the climate of RRISD? […]