Hampton Branch Library
'Chronicle' Still in the Nineties
RECEIVED Tue., July 26, 2005
Sir:
What Doug Yancey meant ["Postmarks," July 22] was that Mr. Montenegro never really cared about how unjustified his paycheck is against the economics of the Ysleta district in El Paso. From Johnston, through San Marcos and Houston, Mr. Montenegro showed ineptitude and (ethnic) greed, yet his earnings went up, up. Mr. Yancey tried to put some weight on his gripes and Michael King replied elusively as a fourth-grader. Johnston High has been there for more than 40 years and not one community member has ever been designated principal, arguing ignorance, yet AISD, ACC, and UT care more about New Yorkers than Austinites. As a paper, you are still in the Nineties.
What Doug Yancey meant ["Postmarks," July 22] was that Mr. Montenegro never really cared about how unjustified his paycheck is against the economics of the Ysleta district in El Paso. From Johnston, through San Marcos and Houston, Mr. Montenegro showed ineptitude and (ethnic) greed, yet his earnings went up, up. Mr. Yancey tried to put some weight on his gripes and Michael King replied elusively as a fourth-grader. Johnston High has been there for more than 40 years and not one community member has ever been designated principal, arguing ignorance, yet AISD, ACC, and UT care more about New Yorkers than Austinites. As a paper, you are still in the Nineties.
Paul Avina
[News Editor Michael King responds: Despite Paul Avina's reflexive ranting and the claims made in Doug Yancey's letter, Hector Montenegro actually accepted less in salary when he accepted the position at Ysleta ISD than the board expected to pay, partly why they voted 7-0 to hire him away from the Dallas ISD (not Houston). I wouldn't venture to speculate the relevant decade of Avina's provincial obsessions.]