On Monday, Dr. Richele Langley, MISD School Superintendent, spoke at the monthly meeting of the CAC. Dr. Langley arrived in May to assume the duties of her new position. She is not new to the MISD system. She is a 1983 graduate of Marshall High School.
The presentation “Marshall ISD – Promise for Our Future” covered the topics:
Where are we now
Opportunities
Goals
Strategy
In July a new Assistant Superintendent came on-board. Currently student enrollment is up 200 students from this time last year. MISD has also started a Strategic Planning Process.
MISD began the 2021-2022 school year with in-person learning. COVID positive numbers are below 2% for both staff and students. Enrollment is back above 5000 after a 4800 low.
The COVID sliide is real at MISD. After a steady increase in STAAR scores from 2017-2019 STAAR scores from 2019-2021 dropped on average 10% per subject and grade level. Over the last decade average enrollment dropped from 5600 to 4800.
Langley sees an opportunity to develop a school system that begins with the end in mind. That is – an education that equips every student with the tools to go out into the world and get a job.
MISD will assign K-12 with the 4 endorsement pathways:
STEM
Fine Arts
Business & Industry
Public Service
MISD is working to develop a 5-year Strategic Plan by February 28, 2022. In order to manage complex change MISD must have 5 factors present:
Vision
Skills
Incentives
Resources
Action Plan
MISD goal is to begin implementation of the Strategic Action Plan the first day of school – August 2022. This will require the strategic plan to be converted into a set of specific actions.
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Editor’s note: Today the Dallas Morning News reported that the University of Texas — Austin was the top-ranked Texas university in the U.S. News “Best Global Universities.” Since I went to undergraduate school at UT, Austin I was happy. I went to the source document to see the ranking for Berkeley, the place where I went to graduate school. Number 4 not bad — but Stanford beat us again. Please don’t tell Allan Loudermilk.
A thought about what a certain image could have accomplished:
Time travel with me back to February 20, 2020. President Donald said this about Covid 19:
“When you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done.”
Now, let’s jump to April 3, 2020 in Coronavirus Task Force televised meeting announcing a CDC-recommended mask mandate where Trump said this:
“It’s going to be, really, a voluntary thing. You can do it. You don’t have to do it. I’m choosing not to do it, but some people may want to do it, and that’s OK. It may be good. Probably will. They’re making a recommendation. It’s only a recommendation.”
What if….on that day, instead of sticking to the macho statement above, the president of the United States opted to give a prime time live speech from the Oval Office. As the cameras activate, he is sitting, masked, behind the iconic Resolute Desk. He encourages all American residents to “Mask up! to keep the pandemic at bay.”
Now, jump to August 23, 2020. President Donald Trump, flanked by his family, cabinet members and staff, plus key members of both parties in Congress, is in just shirt sleeves on the South Lawn of the White House. In a prime time broadcast carried on every major network as a national emergency broadcast, Donald Trump is vaccinated.
After he gets his shot, all those with him are lined up and get immunized.
The total number of U.S. deaths from Covid will hit 750,000 in November.
How many more folks would be alive today if our president had used the power of his bully pulpit for information and positive action rather than the power of his bloaviated ego to further cement political adoration from his herd of conspiracy theory and anti-vaxx sheep?
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Opinion: How-can-dumb-get-any-dumber?-when-it’s Texas-Rep.-Louie-Gohmert headline and story of the day
By George Smith — October 23, 2021
“GOP congressman: Capitol riot defendants are being treated worse than ‘blood thirsty murderers’ at Guantanamo”
Story:
Speaking on the House floor this Friday, Texas GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert went to bat for defendants arrested and charged for participating in the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, saying that authorities are treating them worse than prisoners in the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp in Cuba.
“The reports we’ve been getting indicate that the folks here that are being held in pre-trial confinement and are being punished, although that’s unconstitutional to punish somebody while they are waiting trial and have not been convicted, that they’re not treated nearly as well as bloodthirsty murderers that are being held in Guantanamo,” Gohmert said.
Gohmert went on to say that he’s visited Capitol riot defendants and that it’s “tragic that American citizens are being treated so much worse than individuals who want to destroy America.”
“Dumb” does not do justice to describing the act of mere “thinking” that describes this man’s lack f of moral perspective and mental acuity.
He is so dumb that Baylor should rescind his law degree. He is so dumb that anyone who voted for him or will vote for him should not be allow to…fill in blank here.
His imbecilic remarks and actions — from “anchor babies” to being promoted to “general” of “Trump’s Troops” to excusing the Jan. 6 insurrection, deaths of five people and his excusing actions of his supporters trying to bring down a mainstay of democracu as outlined in the Constitution — woukd be laughable if he were not an elected official.
His First District supporters cannot continue to believe this man is a patriot and expresses the views of East Texas. East Texans, by and large, are hard working, Bible believers who know God in his wisdom and Jesus in his teachings would cast the likes of Louie the Lip into the fiery depths of hell rather than listen to the insane drivel flowing from his lie-laced tongue.
There is no love in Louie, no empathy (except for the lies necessary to hold onto power), no help for the poor and oppressed, you know … Jesus stuff!
Bottomline line: Louie and his supporters are on the wrong side of common sense and decency, and the wrong side of history.
Next year, get out and vote and make this laughable buffoon of an elected official an “ejected” official.
Send Louie home. He’s representing the underbelly of an autocratic movement that is anti-American, and anti-democracy.
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Opinion: What do you get when you mix equal parts of stupid and evil?
By George Smith — October 18, 2021
You may consider it a rhetorical question because there are as many potential answers as there are people.
But several answers quickly pop to my mind: 1. Marjorie Taylor Green 2. Josh Hawley 3. Lauren Boebert.
These three have no redeeming social value, and, along with a choir of messengers singing the praises of and clamoring for the blessing of their cult leader Donald Trump, readily stir up a cauldron of lies, intellectual fraud, divisiveness and lack of the human emotion of empathy.
In a phrase, they are fallen angels preaching that chaos is better than peace, purveyors of wrong-headed thinking, trumpeteers of the dismantling of democracy.
They, along with the likes of Chip Roy, Louie Gohmert and Joni Ernst, are the congressional apostles to Trump’s Mephistopheles; all have attained a certain degree of notoriety due to their ability to open their mouths and insert BOTH feet simultaneously.
A couple of these have obtained cult status by performing their feet-in-mouth trick while having their heads inserted in Trump’s posterior.
Other so-called Republicans, like Stephen Miller, Ted Cruz and Mario Rubio, are evil, but cannot be called stupid by any measurement. That, honestly, is doubly sad in that they willingly help set the destructive agenda of the party’s evil path m, one paved with lies, lies and more lies. It is their choice to put the desire for personal power over the betterment of all people.
But their intelligence has been wasted by their devotion to a cult leader rather than bow to those in the bipartisan choir working to encourage them to leave the COT (Cult of Trump).
They, like Leader Trump, are fallen angels, torn between satanic pride, dark despair and controlling the actions of those who have never met a conspiracy theory they didn’t like.
This round of political shenanigans was predicted long ago in a book chic
of history, cool stories, miracles and prophecies, a book many conservatives praise but do not embrace — the Bible.
“And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.”
— Revelations 12:9
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Shaun Bobbi Kelehan of Marshall has not had a good couple of years.
The former Marshall doctor and former owner of Marshall’s Access Family Health clinic on Alamo Boulevard surrendered his medical license earlier this year rather than having the state Medical Board revoke it foe cause. He was also an owner and a physician at a clinic in Longview; additionally, he is a partner in clinics in Tyler and the Austin area. Access Family Health was an expanding network of boutique health clinics throughout Texas before being sold earlier this year.
In rapid-fire order in the last four years, Kelehan:
* Was hit with a 2017 criminal investigation by the Marshall Police Department that found evidence of sexual assault and improper use of medication on a patient. Despite video and audio evidence in which he admitted the acts, Kelehan was no-billed on any charges by a Gregg County grand jury (with special prosecutor after Harrison County Prosecutor Coke Solomon recused himself, citing he was a patient of Kelehan. The audio and video confessions were not played for the grand jury; special prosecutor ——– of Longview said he “jury did not request they be played.”
* Had his practice of medicine drastically curtailed by the medical board, including an order that stated he could no longer administer medical treatment to male patients; could not prescribe prescription drugs to male patients; doctor’s Physician Assistants (PA) at his clinics could not see male patients; female patients can only be seen at his clinics; and he could not provide telemedicine sessions.
* Was the main subject of a front-page investigative story in the Austin American-Statesman about patient abuse by Texas doctors.
* Was informed with the revelation that a second alleged victim to sexual assault had complained, which prompted the medical board to schedule a second disciplinary hearing.
* Abruptly volunteered to surrender his medical license; the board accepted his resignation without comment.
And,
* Announced his retirement and that his entire business interests had been sold.
His troubles did not end there.
On October 1, Dallas attorney Mark Perrin with The Perrin Law Firm in Dallas filed a civil suit in Harrison County (District 7 Court) alleging Kelehan deliberately over-medicated and sexually abused former Marshall resident Steven Trey Wood.
Wood is seeking monetary damages in “excess of $1 million.” Additionally, the suit requests Wood receive “exemplary damages, costs of suit, prejudgment interest at the maximum rate allowed by law”, plus “other and further relief…to which Plaintiff shows himself entitled.”
A request for comment from Kelehan was emailed but no response was received by deadline.
Wood, a former outstanding Marshall High School athlete, is an admitted alcoholic and drug abuser, spent two years in the Texas penal system for robbing a drug dealer, and has been in detox and rehab facilities numerous times.
The allegations in the lawsuit include:
* On at least two occasions, according to statements from the alleged victim, and from videotapes of Kelehan, the former doctor “rendered Wood unconscious with the express intent or having sexual relations”. In one of the alleged attacks, according to the prior testimony, Woods “woke up” to find Kelehan’s penis in his mouth. (Note: The attacks allegedly occurred at Dr. Kelehan’s residence at 303 Henley Perry Drive and at his guest house, the historic Trammel’s Trace log cabin, which is adjacent to the residence. The cabin, the oldest house in Harrison County, received the first Texas historical building medallion in the county in 1962, and in 1965 received a Texas Historical Marker.)
* That Kelehan, despite having a personal and professional relationship with Wood, and knowing his dependence on drugs, provided him with narcotics, opiates and benezodiaszepines (anti-anxiety). The lawsuit charges that Kelehan “enabled” and ‘exacerbated” Wood’s addiction.
* Wood was provided drugs through prescriptions and sometimes “without a prescription”, with some coming from a “container in (Kelehan’s) home that contained medications that had been returned by patients.
* Kelehan’s providing drugs to Wood “took an even more nefarious turn”, including two occasions the former doctor drugged Wood with Seroquel (sleeping agent), Librium (anti-anxiety and acute alcohol withdrawal) and/or Klonopin” (sleeping agent). The suit emphatically asserts Kelehan administered the prescription medication without a prescription and “with full knowledge” of Wood’s drug addiction and what affect the drugs would have on him, (and) that he gave Wood “the drugs for the purpose of incapacitating him.”
* After giving the drugs to Wood, Kelehan sexually assaulted him in his guest house. In the audio and video recordings Wood obtained following a request by the Marshall police investigator, Kellehan admitted to the sexual encounter, plus another nonconsensual earlier sexual encounter to which Wood has testified he did not remember.
* Kelehan “took steps to fraudulently conceal wrongful actions” from Wood.
* The lawsuit also alleges Kelehan’s former company Access Family Health is also responsible for the abuse charged by Wood as the company “failed to properly supervise or train” Kelehan.
And, there is still more to the story.
A reporter, attempting to get a copy of the filed lawsuit made six calls to the Harrison County Courthouse, including to the office of District Judge Brad Morin, District Clerk Sherry Griffis and District Attorney Reid McCain.
In succession, the reporter was told: 1. The case was sealed; 2. contact the district attorney; 3. the case could not be located; 4. a deputy clerk would check with the clerk and call back; 5. the deputy called and said the “case being sealed was a mistake” and it was unsealed and ready for viewing. (The reporter had already received an email copy from the Perrin Law Firm.)
The reporter, having covered court cases for more than 40 years asked or stated at each juncture of the find-the-case hunt:
“Who sealed the case?”
“Why was it sealed?”
“The plaintiff’s attorney did not know it was sealed. How could that be?”
“What does the district attorney have to do with a civil case?”
“How can a case be accidentally sealed? Doesn’t a judge have to perform that function?”
No answers to any of the questions were obtained.
The case was filed in the district clerk’s office at 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 1, and acknowledged as received by Giffis.
And, the criminal part of the story may not be over.
An investigation of Woods’ complaint against Kelehan, based on the series of unusual legal twists and turns of the case, is continuing, according to a state law enforcement official. The official, who requested anonymity due to an “ongoing investigation”, said criminal charges could still be filed in the case, or, based on the events that transpired in this case, it could be taken to a grand jury.”
The official said, “You have a police investigation, which ended up in charges being filed; you have confessions, on both audio and video; you have a grand jury no-billing a case in which the jurors did not get all the pertinent information, via a decision by the special prosecutor.
“Then,” the official said, “you have a sealed civil suit that no one seems to know about, including the plaintiff’s attorney, and after a question pops up about the case, it’s magically no longer sealed.
“These events could lead to a reopening and expansion of the original case.”
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Question of the day: “What Is Critical Race Theory, and Why Is It Under Attack?”*
“Is ‘critical race theory’ a way of understanding how American racism has shaped public policy, or a divisive discourse that pits people of color against white people? Liberals and conservatives are in sharp disagreement.
“The topic has exploded in the public arena this spring—especially in K-12, where numerous state legislatures are debating bills seeking to ban its use in the classroom.
“In truth, the divides are not nearly as neat as they may seem. The events of the last decade have increased public awareness about things like housing segregation, the impacts of criminal justice policy in the 1990s, and the legacy of enslavement on Black Americans. But there is much less consensus on what the government’s role should be in righting these past wrongs. Add children and schooling into the mix and the debate becomes especially volatile.”
My opinion is just that, an opinion, but is based on the reality that “history is history” and should be made available and studied and discussed in open forums. Truth — telling it and being able to listen to it, to discuss it, is important.
History is full of good, bad, ugly, wretched, horrifying and evil deeds by humans, organizations and governments.
Educational facilities should be charged with relating these truths so the bad/evil/mean events are understood and not repeated.
Examples:
— White settlers, assisted by the military, took land from Native Americans? Historical fact.
— Taxicans absconding with a humongous tract of land from Mexico because it suited the white man’s purpose and dream? History.
— Slavery as a beloved institution is part of this country’s recent past? Real down-and-dirty historical fact.
— Continually unfairly persecuting people of color and treating them as second-class citizens for more than 250 years? It’s a fact.
Why not teach history? Why not teach all of it, from the events that brought forth angelic hurrahs to the festering boils of depravity, the evil deeds of humans throughout history?
There are those who want to cover up the bilious behavior of certain individuals snd groups, including factions of the federal government, like they never happened.
In one of my college classes, I asked students various questions aimed at testing their historical knowledge of the building of this social fabric of this county.
How did the western expansion of predominantly white settlers affect the lives of Native Americans?
Did shavery have any good attributes?
What do you know about the Trail of Tears?
Tell me about the Meadow Mountain Massacre.
What were “carpetbaggers” and how did their actions affect the South after the Civil War?
What caused the rise of the KKK? Why is it still active today?
You know…history questions, important questions to assist putting current events into perspective.
If we do not learn about history, ALL history, it’s hard to develop a strong, intuitive, moral compass that creates a need to right the wrongs upchucked by our ancestors.
Did your know that in Germany, students are taken on field trips to historical sites preserved to show each generation the depths of human sorrow and depravity… they visit Nazi concentration mcamps where more than 6,000,000 hunan beings were exterminated. Think a school district would bus students to the site of a lynching of a black man by a white mob as a life and history lesson?
History must be taught…all of it. Historical fact cannot be changed because it is just thst—fact!
To attempt to hide historical fact, is intellectually fraud. We are better than that. Aren’t we?
*Education Week provide background information for this article)
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Take this snippet and slip it into your mental maw and chew on it.
The country’s deficit and debt BELONG to the Republican Party and its presidents and GOP-held congresses.
Let’s go back to Bill Clinton: He left a huge surplus. (Trumpuppets, did you know that? Cat got your tongue?)
Clinton had budget surpluses for fiscal years 1998–2001, the only such years from 1970 to 2018. Clinton’s final four budgets were balanced budgets with surpluses, beginning with the 1997 budget.
Debt held by the public reached a high of 49.5% of GDP at the beginning of President Clinton’s first term. However, it fell to 34.5% of GDP by the end of Clinton’s presidency due in part to decreased military spending, increased taxes (in 1990, 1993 and 1997), and increased tax revenue resulting from the 1990s boom.
The debt held by the public relative to GDP rose again due in part to the Bush tax cuts and increased military spending caused by the wars in the Middle East and a new entitlement Medicare D program. During the presidency of George W. Bush, debt held by the public increased from $3.339 trillion in September 2001 to $6.369 trillion by the end of 2008. In the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2007–08 and related significant revenue declines and spending increases, debt held by the public increased to $11.917 trillion by the end of July 2013, under the presidency of Barack Obama.
The Obama Administration increased the deficit but for six of his eight years, the GOP controlled both houses of Congress…you know…passing bills and raising the debt and deficit. And there was pesky 2008 worldwide economic downturn that bombed tax revenues exponentially.
WHAT ABOUT THE BUDGET DEFICIT?In Trump’s first three years the national budget deficit increased from $585 billion in fiscal 2016 to $984 billion in fiscal 2019, up 68%, for a total of $2.4 trillion. If the coronavirus had not hit this years deficit was on-track to be $1.1 trillion, per the Congressional Budget Office or CBO, which would then make Trump’s first four years deficits total $3.5 trillion. At $1 trillion or more this would have been the largest budget deficit in history with a growing economy and the largest as a percentage of GDP outside of recessions or World War II.
That deficit ballooned in Trump’s last year and that is understandable. Just like debt increases dramatically during wartime, national emergencies serve the same anti-budget purpose.
Cutting to the heart of the matter: Government SHOULD operate as a non-profit business…it’s appropriate to run a surplus and “slush” the funds for emergencies.
The country now operates as a golden-egg-laying goose and assuming the goose will never die!
The only reason Trump and his GOP puppets cut taxes was to make sure rich folks and corporations were happy.
In case you have forgotten, trickle-down economics does not work; the 1-percenters and Big Business DO NOT, for the most part, pass along tax savings in any meaningful way…except in stock payments and executive bonuses.
The GOP is not fiscally conservative as a party. Research it…debt and deficit.
A close friend, one I’d trust with my life, is a Trump supporter. We pledged to not talk politics and he broke the pledge in a typical Trumpuppet fashion, lamenting our ”senile” president, the immigrant problem, the price of gas and how the country is doomed. Then he started in on
As an off-the-wall rant, it was a good one; this friend is an excellent writer.
I didn’t have to respond but did so after he foisted “.your liberal party” upon my head.
My screed at 5 a.m.:
Wow! You are worked up.
Please remember this: I am not a Democrat. I am an independent.
I vote for (but mainly against, since real change is impossible without true campaign finance reform and, in my opinion, term limits) a candidate on issues. I voted for Reagan and both Bushes…once. At the time, I liked them better than the Democratic candidates.
I’m concerned that Republicans care more about big business, tax breaks for the wealthy, high drug prices, the success of military equipment manufacturers, and throwing up scare tactics about antifa and BLM than they are about the ordinary citizen.
GOPers, like all militia groups, scream about personal freedom — “My body, my choice!” Is a popular theme right now — but demand that women and girls do not have that same right when it comes to personal health care in consultation with their doctor and their god.
Your comment about Democrats and education was, really, beneath you and I took it as a statement made out of exasperation and mental anguish.
Two areas — national security and education — should be the primary concerns of this country. As a teacher and a one-time history major, I rever the historical truisms of this world and our nation — ALL of the stories, not just those that are pleasant and sanitized.
Due to greed and a belief that the white race was superior to all others, early settlers and would-be land barons, with the help of the military (after “buying” Manhattan in the worst/best land deal in history) took the whole of the U.S. from Native Americans. Of course they paid Spain for the Louisiana Purchase and Alaska from Russia (both “dream” real estate deals), after those countries stole it from various tribes and indigenous folk.
Slavery, abhorrent treatment of Native Americans (who, themselves, were immigrants) and the history of immigrant-bashing are part of the nation’s historical fabric.
It is impossible to unweave the cloth and create a new narrative without presenting a phony and superfluous picture of the past.
History is history. Trying to change it to fit a certain political philosophy, ease guilty consciences or just to assure that sensitive feelings are spared is NOT history.
If we do not actively and persistently acknowledge the mistakes of our ancestors, how on God’s green earth can we ever learn from them?
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