By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ
Staff Writer
reporter@sbnewspaper.com
Interim Superintendent Dr. Ismael Cantu
San Benito CISD Interim Superintendent of Schools Dr. Ismael Cantu received a three-month contract extension at Tuesday’s regular meeting.
Cantu also received a $50 raise, bringing his total pay per day to $550. The contract was approved by a 4-0 vote. Voting in favor of the extension were Board President Yliana Gonzalez, Vice-President Julian Huerta, Secretary June Aguilera and trustee Fatima Huerta. Board member Hector Leal abstained while fellow trustees Anna Cruz and Oscar Medrano were not present.
“Because there was a person that almost had a higher salary than me, they decided to move it up $50,” Cantu said of his salary.
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No educator is refusing to follow a directive, an opinion and an observation was rendered. As an FYI, the opportunity to wear jeans on a Friday is a most welcomed one, for obvious reasons. Many choose to participate, many choose not to, but in some schools, a teacher must contribute one to two dollars for the opportunity to wear jeans. The dollars collected are contributed to Relay for Life, & to other functions.
Focus needs to be on providing guidance & direction to the school board, and to identifying areas of opportunities and deficiencies. Let’s KEEP THE MAIN THING THE MAIN THING.
Jeans an issue? Yes! Some workers wear jeans on Friday and they look like slop. It’s called dressing professional. It’s called pride. The simple fact that some employees refuse to follow a directive, no matter how simple or small, just goes to show you what kind of mad house the SBCISD has become.
Mr. Canas, You are absolutely right. When did demin material become a big concern? The CONCERN should be on academics. We send our children to school to be educated by teachers and staff members. Those educators have enough on their plate without having to worry about an interim supt telling them what not to wear.
The Mess at SBCISD can ALL be Blamed on those board members…. Starting with the board president!
May Ballot looking good right about now.
Remember what we got the last time San Benito voters wanted a “Change”. We got the ghetto board members. Now you want to wipe out the whole board? “Throw the baby out with the bath water,” mentality never works. Can you imagine? New Supt. new board members. The blind leading the blind. When did “experience” become such a dirty word?
I would just like to state an observation. It seems that one of the first things Mr. Cantu did was to ban the use of any denim material even on Fridays when a majority of the teachers and staff look forward to that little bit of a reward for a good job done during the week. It seems to me that if you are coming in to a district to help that focusing on staff apparel is not the best use of power. It indicated to me that you like to micromanage. The focus as I see it should be on student performance & parental involvement. Teachers spend their days being not only teachers but also counselors, diagnosticians, poems clerks and parents. Now many teachers feel like they are not trusted or respected by all this micromanaging and added burdens which appear almost daily. The administration’s answer is always, “You are the teacher of record so you have to do it.”
RE: Leo H
The same can be said for the rest of the board members in regards to not attending board meetings as well as cancelling/rescheduling meetings. And as far as tax payers and spending goes, its a board of 7. They only one spending (wasting) taxpayers money is not just Oscar and Ana. All 7 are accountable. All 7.
It’s so apparent that Ana and Oscar don’t have the children and our district in the best interest. By them both not showing up to a meeting that was to discuss the interim super extension and they don’t show. Great representation Ana and Oscar! You guys voted in spending taxpayers last week by hiring a firm to select a coach and AD, and then you pass when the interim super is on the agenda. Once again, May elections can’t come fast enough..
Her father was placed on Hospice and that same day her father’s brother had passed away. Maybe you should pray for her family instead of spewing out evil thoughts.
I don’t understand why the board hasn’t hired a superintendent I mean a permanent not a rental. Do they need a search firm to do that also? New board members across the board. I don’t get it. A super should be the first person they hire.
why did he get a raise if he doesn’t even know how to talk to people i was passing him in the hallway and he did not even say hi or good morning very bad people skills a man with such a high education.This is just a temporary employee and he shouldn’t even get raise.