Takeover or Turnaround (Part 3.5)
I got an e-mail from Dr. Eugene White today replying to the one I sent him at Tuesday night’s Department of Education hearing on the possible takeover of Broad Ripple Magnet School. As I said in the previous post, Dr. White came across as disinterested in what was going on at the hearing because he was texting/playing with his phone and looking extremely bored. So I e-mailed him the following…
Could you at least pretend to look interested? It might help!
Here’s Dr. White’s reply…
Abdul,
You have no interest in anything that benefits me or the school district. Please, let’s just be real about this. You don’t like me and you have no plans to stop taking every opportunity to make me and the district look badly. It’s the only way to make your show relevant and it gives you a false sense of your own importance. I am willing to bet that you said nothing on your show about IPS having the “Number One” Magnet Elementary School in the Country last week. You didn’t congratulate anyone because if its positive it doesn’t count when it comes to IPS with you.Don’t contact me on a personal level again. You are the worst kind of man and a poor public servant. If you have a business question, ask it. Oh yes, you guys don’t ask questions anymore you simply answer them yourselves or you find some other unsuspecting victim to take advantage of by asking them questions that they are not prepared or qualified to answer.
Have a good life Brutus!
My initial reaction to Dr. White’s e-mail was going to be the black version of “give me a break” because I’ve never e-mailed Dr. White for anything but business-related matters, but instead I told him “thank you”. You see Dr. White didn’t just send that e-mail to me but the entire school board and a good chunk of his staff. I don’t think he ran this by Mary Louise Beweley before sending. So I figure there was no need to embarrass him more than he did himself.
But with respect to his allegations about not saying anything good about IPS, he’s partially correct which is why for these series of posts I’ve made it perfectly clear there’s a difference between the schools and some of the educational troglodytes in the Central Office that oversee their operations. And I have to say the kids and teachers were very impressive with their comments before the State Board.
However, I think it’s interesting that at the end of Dr. White’s e-mail he refers to me as Brutus from Julius Caesar. If we’re going down that road someone needs to remind Dr. White of Cassius’ line to Brutus, “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves…” (Act 1, Scene 2).
See you tonight at Arlington.
