Reasons to fire Larry

This from the archives:

On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, some time after 7:00 p.m., at the Janie Krebs Smith Memorial Auditorium, located between Lancaster Park Drive and Westridge, in Lancaster, Texas, on the old Elsie Robertson High School Campus, a town hall meeting was held. Former City Manager Jim Landon and Superintendent Larry Lewis spoke. They spoke concerning Lancaster’s future growth and the needs of the schools in preparation for that growth. At that meeting, Superintendent Larry Lewis said, “Give me $75 million in February, and I will give you the best school district in the nation in five years.” I immediately recorded that statement in writing. My wife was present with me and also heard the statement. She confirms the accuracy of my memory. I have recorded that statement in letters and memos I have written since then. I vividly recall the statement.

He went on to say, concerning the children, “We’re going to feed them, clothe them, house them, brush their teeth, and comb their hair.”
Hat tip to Dave Allen for documenting this bit to the hilt.

Now then, here we are preparing for the 2007 -2008 school year. Let's assess the situation.

Apparently the pledge to feed them etc. only applies to Monday thru Thursday.

Texas schools are evaluated as follows:
Exemplary
Recognized
Acceptable
Unacceptable
Other

In 2003 our schools were evaluated as follows;

Exemplary 0
Recognized 2
Acceptable 5
Unacceptable 0
Other 1

Now let's take a look at 2007. The latest school rankings are as follows:

Exemplary 0
Recognized 0
Acceptable 7
Unacceptable 2
Other 0

You can see that we no longer have any recognized schools. To add insult to injury Larry bulldozed one of our recognized schools and replaced it with an acceptable school at scarcely an increase in student population. We began with no unacceptable campuses and now have two. In addition, we still have no exemplary campuses.

Even Cretin, visiting our small planet would have to conclude that this administration and this superintendent is a massive failure. We have fallen from to having 2 recognized and no unacceptable to 2 unacceptable and no recognized. So then the inevitable conclusion is that Dr. Lewis, bless his heart, has failed miserably and failed to deliver on his pledge. Therefore he should find a compelling need to spend more time with his family.

Therefore Dr. Lewis, giving props to props not due, should live up to his pledge. Dr. your family needs you. Go spend more time with them.

Hat tip to Jeff Melcher for his heroic effort in compiling this information to a spreadsheet available documents on LPP@yahoogroups.com.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you , then they fight you, then you win.
Mahatami Gandhi