PUBLIC FORUM ON NEW ATHLETIC DIRECTOR SELECTION

  

About 50 people attended a public forum Wednesday evening to gather input for the selection of a new Athletic Director and Head Football Coach for Brenham ISD.  Glen West announced on Monday that he is leaving that position to become the Assistant Executive Director of the Texas High School Coaches Association.

Brenham School Superintendent Dr. Walter Jackson led the forum and explained that Brenham is held in high regard among the coaching community, largely due to Glen West.  He said that Athletic Directors seek out a town that has only one high school, so they can have the whole community behind them.  He also said that this is the time of year that coaches look to move to a different district, so he expects to receive lots of applications for the position.  Jackson said that he couldn’t hire an exact duplicate of Glen West, but he promised that the new Athletic Director would be great in their own way.

Some of the priorities offered by those attending the forum included: Starting athletic programs in Jr. High or earlier, equal support for female athletics, success with students in a district with similar demographics as ours, having great communication and organizational skills, and helping students reach the next level both athletically and academically.

Superintendent Jackson said that a selection committee would be formed soon and it would include Brenham ISD administrators and school officials, current coaches, and members of the community.  Applications for the position are due by March 16th, and interviews will begin the following week.

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  1. Mr. or Ms. Pity, With all due respect. As a taxpayer and friend/relative to many, many teachers. So called management staff and s called specialist staff is bloated. It doesn’t take a fifth grader to figure that out. If you own property, it is even reflected in the numbers, if you pay attention to that.

    1. I’m a taxpayer and a friend or relative of several teachers also. I stated that there doesn’t SEEM to be much more staff at the central office as a reply to someone that made your same assertion. I’m not saying there’s not more staff, I’m saying show me the numbers, or stop blowing hot air. My statement is an opinion, and so is yours, without the numbers. So they’re equally useless/pointless statements until the numbers are brought out. I didn’t make the assertion, and the burden of evidence is upon he who did. So show them to us.

  2. Academics have always taken a backseat in BISD. Paint it any way you want, but those in the know, know. The sport mentality in this community always does the steering, always will. Exactly why most of our brightest academic starts leave permanently. Team sports are fine, but should not define a communities schools. But it’s a mute point anyway, the private voucher, tax credit system being shoved down our throats will take care of that anyway with the huge funding losses to public education.

    1. Personally, I think vouchers are the way to go, let parents have a choice where the quality of the education matters more than silly liberal ideas that seem to dominate education and watch change happen fast. The central office bloat, the vast army of “specialists” and all the other waste will start to go away and watch the emphasis come back to the classroom. Instead of paying $182.000 a year for the top guy, the desire to hire and pay great teachers will actually become more than lip service. In the meantime, watch as we hire another overpaid coach and hear the justifications that are shoved down the throat of the taxpayer.

      1. Did they move the administration building? Is it not still on Mansfield? I know the building was remodeled a couple years ago, but it doesn’t look any bigger today than 30 years ago — where do they stash this “bloated” staff I keep hearing about? There doesn’t seem to be any more folks working there today than when I used to visit 30 years ago. Are there real numbers connected to this repeated assertion, or is it just ‘fake news’ that the central office is overstaffed?

        1. They actually did do some remodeling, check it out. They were even closed while that took place. You should also check out the increase in payroll dollars and the numbers of people that are now part of the administration. It is all available. Meanwhile I under-resourced and underpaid teachers are struggling to teach kids without basic materials and disciplinary support. Driving by the building will not tell you whats happening, compare the administrative staff size to even 10 years ago and prepare to be surprised.

          1. “There doesn’t seem to be any more folks working there today than when I used to visit 30 years ago.”

          2. To Pity, I encourage you to actually check out what I am saying instead of just eyeballing the building. This information is out there available to the public, just ask for it. Compare the size of the administration to even 10 years ago and you will see a substantial growth. Also, it is worth noting that some administrative staff are housed in places other than central office.

          3. If the information is publically available, why don’t you post it here, publically? The burden is on you, not me — you made the assertion that the staff is “bloated” beyond what it was 30 years ago. Now show us the numbers, and please tell us where you got them, or stop making stuff up.

  3. Prediction: My bet is they are going to find an up and coming superstar that makes a lot of money and they will pay him even more! We will then discover he makes more than the high school principal so he will need a raise to ensure he is paid more than someone he is supposed to supervise. The school board will then pat themselves on the back and congratulate themselves for a job well done. We as taxpayers will then have the opportunity and great joy to pay MANY MORE taxes as we do our patriotic duty and show love for kids!

    Just watch and see!

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