Our friends at TGS Watch have new information from a session Dot Woodfin had with HISD auditors regarding an ethics investigation related to the sale of MindOH! software to HISD schools while Dot Woodfin was both employed by HISD and owned a stake in MindOH! LLC - the company that marketed the software. This is a clear conflict of interest.
Read more at:
http://tgswatch.blogspot.com/2012/06/dot-woodfin-admits-ethical-violation.html
Supporting HISD Memo:
https://www.box.com/s/19e47089527baeaaf3ff
I have read the entire comments on both blogs...... I am not surprised, this is just the begining. A thief always gets caught, if not immediately then eventually. As per Mr. Khan, where there is smoke there is fire.
ReplyDeleteIf Sara Ganim received a Pultizer for breaking the Penn State story, what would a reporter receive from breaking the story about the Galloway?????
ReplyDeleteMr. Khan, I have been following this blog since it first started out with the sexual harassment claim by Lori Solt. It is ironic and sad that it has turned into a medium for you and a small faction of like thinking people with the intent of trying to destroy people's reputation for your own greedy intentions. we are alike in one way – we both have money. From my objective viewpoint, I see that you are an angry man who is using this blog to use scare tactics and bribery (offering to credit parents for the tuition they have already paid to Galloway if they will come to your school and offering to pay attorney fees if they wanted to sue) to build a school that is non-existent at this time and has no credibility. And you plan to do this in a matter of months based on your word alone. I find this amusing. What do you really know about education? Do you really expect to fill your positions for the school and have a quality curriculum ready in a matter of a few months? Rather ambitious to say the least even for an educational expert whom I don't believe you are. While you are determined to pour your money in a disparaging manner by tearing down people and the school, I prefer to put my money into finding out more about these individuals and the school and at the very Ieast provide additional information so parents can weigh their decision about education for their children in a more honest approach. By the way Mr. Khan, I must say that condoning the publishing of Mrs.Galloway's home phone number and asking people to call her to complain when you are aware she is L00 years old is unwarranted and speaks volumes about your character. I must admit this has served as a catalyst for me to get involved in this situation. One other thing, I do not believe that all newspaper articles are accurate nor do I believe that HISD's ambiguous documents as you presented them are complete and I further question their accuracy. Some things just do not add up. To the parents of Galloway: do not panic and succumb to fear based tactics. I will be back with information, good or bad, that perhaps will assist you in making a decision that you feel is best for your child. I do not sign my name because quite frankly Mr. Khan, a person with as many aliases as you have does not fit my criteria for trustworthiness. I have no self-serving agenda; however, your agenda is very obvious. Your business plan is to plant seeds of doubt and panic in parents in order to start your school. Such a shame. An honorable man should seek to start a school based on his passion for educating our youth and preparing them to succeed in the "real world" and not on retaliatory methods against a school that you feel was perhaps not a good fit for your son. Recruiting students and parents would be based on your ability to provide a superior educational experience rather than trying to destroy a school or "buy the Galloway School" in order to circumvent the hard work and time required to establish a great school based on strong educational standards. Your motives are certainly suspect.
ReplyDeleteThird Party,
ReplyDeleteIt is amazing how many people are "catalyzed" by me into becoming first time posters or long time followers of the blog experiencing a re-awakening. I guess I am an effective motivator at the very least.
I have many aliases? You are mistaken. My first dozen or so posts on here were anonymous and since then I have posted under my name exclusively. Can’t say that about Laine/Bonnie/Dot/Anonymous Galloway Supporters.
You claim I have greedy intentions. How do you know that? I am going to invest hundreds of thousands of my hard earned dollars into establishing a non-profit school. Please explain how I would ever generate a return on that "investment" in order to feed my greedy intentions. If you have first hand knowledge of how a non-profit school can be a profit generating enterprise that would feed anyone's greedy intentions, then I would like to hear how that can be done and where you learned how to do it. Please elaborate. Perhaps that would educate me about what I need to investigate further about the financial transgressions at the Galloway School.
I still find it amusing that a school that I am planning to start, that does not exist yet, is such a threat to the existence of the Galloway School. There are plenty of students available for many private schools to exist in the area. Lutheran South and Bay Area Christian are filled to capacity and are planning major expansions. Funny how other successful schools don’t even have the Newton School on their radar. Perhaps they are too busy delivering high level academic instruction to their students and meeting the needs of their tuition paying parents.
Third Party,
ReplyDeleteThis is part 2 of my response to your post.
I have clearly stated numerous times that I am not an educator. But I am a highly effective businessman. I excel at identifying talent and then utilizing that talent to achieve a goal. You have never met me, nor have you ever discussed my business plan, yet you make broad statements questioning how I can establish a school in a few months. Well, it is simple. I would do the following:
1. Purchase a state of the art curriculum with supporting media, not textbooks from garage sales and book liquidations.
2. Hire the best educators available and pay them a salary higher than what competing private schools and local public schools pay. That formula is tried and true in ANY industry.
3. Reward the teachers with performance bonuses and let them create the parameters governing that performance bonus and submit that to the board for approval. I would think that peer reviewed performance would be far more accurate than dictator reviewed performance. Am I getting through Third party? Do you still think I don't know how to establish a state of the art school? Oh wait, there's more.
4. Cap the student teacher ratio at 10 to 1. It is impossible to deliver highly individualized instruction catering to each student’s specific needs if the student/teacher ratio is too large. When parents are paying in excess of $10,000 per year, there is more than enough revenue to have a low student teacher ratio.
5. Implement a thoroughly modern technology infrastructure that incorporates multimedia software in every aspect of instruction and student testing.
6. Floating teacher's aides to assist with delivery of instruction based on specific lesson plans. Interns from the local university are free. Why not use that talent pool. Still think I don't know what I am doing?
I could go on but then my post will start to bore you since you obviously don't care to understand facts. I will say that everything is in place for the Newton School except the real estate. I am picky and will wait for the right real estate opportunity with long term expansion options. Frankly, if the Galloway School was run like a business, it would not be facing the serious issues being addressed on this blog and in local courtrooms. In corporate America, a clear cut sexual harassment case like the Solt case would have been dispatched long ago. It should never have resulted in a lawsuit. The simple resignation of Coach David would have cleanly addressed the issue. Poor decision making on Bonnie's part created the need for legal action. She continues to make similar questionable decisions.
Since you have been involved with the Galloway School for much longer than I have, can you remind me how the Galloway School started out? How many students in the charter class? Square footage of the facility?
My business plan is to start a school that is based on an elected board of directors with term limits. Power will never be concentrated in the hands of one person. I am the founder, majority shareholder, and CEO of my company, but my board of directors can fire me from my position as CEO if I don't meet their expectations. Is that even possible at the Galloway School with an appointed board and no term limits? Still don't think I know how to run a school? Actually running a school is not very different than running a successful business. If you think otherwise, then I really question how you earned your money. Perhaps you inherited it, or are expecting to do so?