Information is currency for democracy.
- Thomas Jefferson
A day without sunshine is like, you know,
night. -
Steve Martin
Education is unique among consumer products;
when it fails to work as advertised, it's the customer that gets labeled as
defective. - Kevin
Killion
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Courage is the most important of all
the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other
virtues consistently. You can't be consistently kind or fair or
humane or generous, not without courage, because if you don't have
it, sooner or later you will stop and say, "The threat is too much.
The difficulty is ...too high. The challenge is too great. ~ Maya
Angelou
WHERE ARE OUR SCHOOL TAX DOLLARS GOING?
Announcing: The Eanes ISD Job Program for Private
Attorneys
During the latter part of 2007, Eanes ISD retained
private attorneys to submit a
complaint against an award-winning
physics teacher who had served our district well for
decades. KeepEanesInformed covered that issue and
eventually the district agreed to withdraw the complaint
(click here
to learn if that ever happened.) So, while working
hard to win a complaint against this outstanding
educator, the same law firm was busy at work
"investigating" this site (while we were busy at work
covering this issue - is there a connection here?)
The legal invoices below
($1200.00) characterize me as an "individual not
affiliated with the district." In truth, my
affiliations with this district are numerous including
parent, volunteer, and taxpayer.
Further, Feldman & Rogers
describes my site's email address as "deceptively
similar to the district's email address."
Deceptively similar? Are they joking? So, to
clear up any confusion: Yes, the email address
references the very same Eanes ISD that is the
subject of this site, KeepEanesInformed.
Meanwhile, I appreciate the communications I received
from Eanes ISD community members, employees, students,
and taxpayers. All are well aware that the email address
eanes_isd@hotmail.com (posted on this site since
October 2003) belongs to KeepEanesInformed. They
understand my "affiliation"
with the district and visit to access public information
that is not posted on the
official Eanes ISD site.
And about this "Job Program for Private Attorneys"
funded by our school tax dollars? It's
thriving all over Texas! In October 2007, Feldman
& Rogers was also hard at work threatening a citizen in
Galveston who maintains a site about the operations of
her community school district. Click here to see
the letter that finally preceded the withdrawal of that
threatened lawsuit: Attorney Responds to
David Feldman's Demand Letter.
They stay real busy
helping
school districts withhold public information
from
the public, too. Maybe Eanes ISD should focus on
the district's apparent
inability to effectively manage bond projects
instead.
And I'll let you know if I ever receive that $1200.00
letter. In fact, I'll post it! Visit this
site's page on
Private
Law Firms to learn more about the "Job Program."
