Suddenly, It Makes Sense?
Pearce closing: a theory
By Nick Barbaro, 10:16AM, Thu. Jul. 30, 2009
The one thing no one's been able to understand about the whole Pearce Middle School closure fiasco is the horrible timing. If Robert Scott and the state wanted to close the school, why did they wait so long to tell AISD? If they want the district to do better by the school's students, why give them just a few weeks to figure out what to do with them? And with school starting in just a couple of weeks now, why is Scott continuing to hem and haw about AISD's school repurposing plan? If he's had the plan in hand since May, why is he just this week starting to raise questions about it to district officials, and talking about sending it off for outside review? It makes no sense.
The answers to these and other questions may have slipped out this week when Scott let drop in a meeting with district officials and Pearce stakeholders that, gee, if AISD can't get its plan together in time [because he's sitting on it], he might just have to let someone else try to run the school. But how could some as-yet-unidentified charter school organizer step in and get a whole new school up and running, from scratch, in two weeks? No, not possible. They'd have to have started planning months ago, way before AISD even knew the school was going to be closed. And how could …
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