2009 FBISD Tax Hearing (On YouTube)

CLICK HERE FOR THE 2009 FBISD CONTROVERSIAL TAX HEARING (YES THEY ARE RAISING THEM AGAIN--see petition of over 500 district taxpayers asking for board accountability) --In case anyone missed it they raised the property tax rate again (4th time) in 2010 and more than likely will do so again in 2011 facing another projected 15-20 million dollar budget deficit, according to some media reports. ***NEW*** ..Petition TO STOP THE GSTC (Global Science Museum being planned at the district central office--near $30 million dollar project that superintendent Jenney is pushing): http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/stopthegcst/ (see update below on this apparently ending this project after 2 years)

Thursday, March 6, 2008

FB Star Covers MHS "Riot" In Missouri City

Three fights at Marshall HS get 17 cited

By Barbara Fulenwider

Fights that broke out during the lunch hour in the commons area of Marshall High School on Friday have resulted in 17 students receiving citations for disorderly conduct.

Boys and girls from 14 years old to 18 participated in the three fights, which took four administrators to break up, according to Ernesto Rodriguez, the district’s director of safe and secure schools.

“The appropriate disciplinary action has been taken for each student involved,” Rodriguez said, and that is what has taken time to sort out. The disciplinary action, said Nancy Porter, FBISD spokeswoman, is according to the student conduct code, the student’s age, frequency of misconduct, attitude -- “it’s on an individual basis for each student.”

Rodriguez said, “Administrators had broken up the fights but it took about 30 minutes for the (FBISD police) officers to sort things out.” Porter said backup police were “called to control the crowd of kids in the cafeteria.”

FBW comment:

This report which relies heavily on official FBISD sources would seem to contradict the 911 calls published last week in FBN. See: http://www.fortbendnow.com/pages/full_story?article-Police-Tapes-Show-Dispatchers-Sent-Officers-To-Quell--Huge-Fight--At-Marshall%20=&page_label=results_content&id=20853-Police-Tapes-Show-Dispatchers-Sent-Officers-To-Quell--Huge-Fight--At-Marshall&widget=push&open=&