Palmer Events Center
Good Riddance, Forgione
RECEIVED Sat., March 22, 2008
Dear Editor,
Re: Pat Forgione [“Forgione's Long Farewell,” News, March 21]: Here's a man who – through proxies – hauled dozens of kids from other districts into the magnet and math and science programs and ultimately transformed LBJ's ethnic makeup from black to Caucasian, in arts and science.
LBJ, Johnston, Reagan, Travis, and Kealing were bustling with very hype young blacks and Hispanics, winning at everything before Mr. Forgione was hired. The grim statistics plaguing Travis County neighborhoods that he encountered still stand today. Now, prostitution, poverty, and unemployment are showing up.
Neither one of the city managers found the Austin Independent School District graduates appealing for what the city of Austin requires for top job seekers; not even AISD found its own graduates appealing for its top positions! So, the notion that not one single principal or superintendent has ever been chosen from its own graduates seems delusional, but for 40 years, it's been a fact. Further misery was cast on the residents around these schools by the policies adopted from the 9/11 industry.
He didn't come here to educate us; he came here to allow rather more investment in and shift the economic risk to the population, a tactic that earned Toby Futrell local immortality, but tell that to the misinformed parents.
Re: Pat Forgione [“Forgione's Long Farewell,” News, March 21]: Here's a man who – through proxies – hauled dozens of kids from other districts into the magnet and math and science programs and ultimately transformed LBJ's ethnic makeup from black to Caucasian, in arts and science.
LBJ, Johnston, Reagan, Travis, and Kealing were bustling with very hype young blacks and Hispanics, winning at everything before Mr. Forgione was hired. The grim statistics plaguing Travis County neighborhoods that he encountered still stand today. Now, prostitution, poverty, and unemployment are showing up.
Neither one of the city managers found the Austin Independent School District graduates appealing for what the city of Austin requires for top job seekers; not even AISD found its own graduates appealing for its top positions! So, the notion that not one single principal or superintendent has ever been chosen from its own graduates seems delusional, but for 40 years, it's been a fact. Further misery was cast on the residents around these schools by the policies adopted from the 9/11 industry.
He didn't come here to educate us; he came here to allow rather more investment in and shift the economic risk to the population, a tactic that earned Toby Futrell local immortality, but tell that to the misinformed parents.
Paul Aviña