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Subject: Mary Ann Pinkston


Author:
Joey Dauben
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Date Posted: 16:59:03 12/17/04 Fri

Okay, what the heck is going on with this Mary Ann Pinkston ordeal?

I hear from one school board trustee that Dirk Younts ripped into her last month at the school board meeting.

Then I hear she says my sources are being misquoted [teacher morale story].

Okay, here's the thing: MISD administration wants all media inquiries going through them first, so if I try to get Pinkston's side -- or recently, Zilienski's -- then it's hard as crap.

This is especially tough considering they selectively answer my questions about stuff...red tape ick.

I might just end up having to freakin mail her a damn letter since (this is what an English teacher told me) the Admin. intercepts my e-mails to specific teachers.

Whatever the case, here's what the MISD Board Briefs for December had to say about it:

Cindy Williams stated, “I, as Board President, am the one who controls the flow of the meeting. And
so I take full responsibility, along with our counsel, and I want to make sure the public understands
that this is not Dr. Kennedy’s meeting to control. It is a Board meeting, and it is our meeting. He (Dr.
Kennedy) is simply here as a point of reference for us and if there is any comment about what
happened then we as a Board take that and not Dr. Kennedy.”

How this has to do with Dirk Younts, I don't know...he wasn't at the meeting on Monday night to give his side, but the school board did vote to table the National Honor Society issue indefinitely.

Oh, and from Kennedy:
Dr. Kennedy stated, “I will never have a teacher come to this Board again. It’s not going to
happen while I am Superintendent. It will be either an administrator or myself.”

I can only think conspiritorial on this whole thing. With the crap hitting the fan about Zilienski and the football team, Pinkston might have been one of the vocal ones to side w/her...Younts, of course, is one of the Football Lobby (my phrase) members (with Roberts, Mentzel, Russell).

(note: this isn't necessarily a bad thing, just a specific faction of board members)

Duke Burge made the motion to table the issue Monday, and it's obvious from that stance that he is pretty pissed at what happened in November.

Hello, Midlothian Media, where the hell are you? The public, myself, and others are being kept out of the dark in all of this.

Not to worry, I pulled an open records request for the November meeting minutes. I'll try to find out what's going on and then report back here...

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