{"id":48864,"date":"2021-08-09T21:07:52","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T21:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48864"},"modified":"2021-08-09T22:59:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T22:59:53","slug":"disd-boss-plays-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48864","title":{"rendered":"DISD boss plays it right"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pandemic-clipart-h1n1-pandemic-concept-11580262.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43342\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pandemic-clipart-h1n1-pandemic-concept-11580262-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pandemic-clipart-h1n1-pandemic-concept-11580262-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pandemic-clipart-h1n1-pandemic-concept-11580262-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pandemic-clipart-h1n1-pandemic-concept-11580262.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By John Kanelis<\/strong> \/ <a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The limb on which I will climb may be about to splinter and break, but I&#8217;ll venture out there anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa, in issuing his mask-wearing order for all students, teachers, staff and visitors to the public school system, is playing a sound political hand.<\/p>\n<p>He is defying an order from <em>Republican<\/em> Texas Gov. Greg Abbott that prohibits local officials such as Hinojosa from issuing such directives. Hinojosa appears to be ignoring that edict from Austin, even though we are fighting a surge in infections from the Delta variant spawned by that damn pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Because the voting constituency he serves &#8212; the parents of the students and the teachers who work in DISD &#8212; are likely to oppose Gov. Abbott&#8217;s ham-handed approach to telling school districts what they can and cannot do.<\/p>\n<p>Were the superintendent in charge of a district parked in the middle of a rock-ribbed Republican-leaning county, such as, oh, <em>Collin County<\/em> (where I live), he might not have the guts to do what he did today in issuing the order in a district that sits primarily inside Dallas County (which by the way voted overwhelmingly for President Biden in the 2020 presidential election); Dallas County also voted by large margins for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Do you get my drift here?<\/p>\n<p>Thus, it is with sadness that I will probably have to wait forever for other school district chieftains to follow Superintendent Hinojosa&#8217;s lead in demonstrating courage in our national fight against the COVID pandemic.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Kanelis \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com The limb on which I will climb may be about to splinter and break, but I&#8217;ll venture out there anyway. Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa, in issuing his mask-wearing order for all students, teachers, staff and visitors to the public school system, is playing a sound political hand. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48864\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DISD boss plays it right<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6251],"tags":[8601,2006,2505,9304,9261],"class_list":["post-48864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-news","tag-dallas-isd","tag-greg-abbott","tag-joe-biden","tag-masks","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48866,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48864\/revisions\/48866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}