\u201cTEA wants conservator for NEISD,\u201d<\/a> Front Page, Saturday:<\/p>\nAfter the Texas Education Agency announced plans to install a conservator over North East Independent School District\u2019s superintendent and Board of Trustees, it is astonishing that some board members still claim House Bill 1481 is ambiguous and that the district is somehow exempt from state law.<\/p>\n
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NEISD, like every public school district in Texas, is bound by Texas law.<\/p>\n
HB1481 is clear: Student cellphone use is prohibited on campus from the first bell to the last. NEISD stands alone in straining to manufacture ambiguity where none exists.<\/p>\n
More importantly, this dispute distracts from the central issue. Teachers need students\u2019 attention at the start of class. When students arrive distracted by their phones, learning suffers.<\/p>\n
A consistent prohibition restores focus and helps curb\u00a0cyber bullying and social media misuse during school hours.<\/p>\n
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The cost of this unnecessary litigation is equally troubling.<\/p>\n
NEISD\u2019s own counsel estimates an additional $50,000 to $100,000 may be spent \u2014 funds that should go to classrooms, not courtrooms.<\/p>\n
NEISD\u2019s leadership should end this litigation, comply with HB1481, and finally put students and teachers first.<\/p>\n
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Powerful\u00a0men signal end<\/p>\n
Waymo and the new\u00a0Robotaxi service are both owned and controlled by two of the richest corporations in the world, Alphabet Inc. (Google) and Tesla.<\/p>\n
That means human-controlled taxis will compete with trillion dollar corporations using artificial intelligence controlled machines.<\/p>\n
A free and open media would be talking about this, but it\u2019s silent.<\/p>\n
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When the richest men in the world have this much power, the end is in sight.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An upstairs dance club and bar at Bonham Exchange. Readers agree, Bonham Exchange should fulfill their obligations as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[94718,45910,86012,94719,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-249386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-edbonham","tag-edletters","tag-edlocal","tag-edmayorjones","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}