DISCIPLINE MANAGEMENT PLAN FIASCO:

The episode where the superintendent, Hugh Hayes, placed the definition for "public lewdness" into the Discipline Management Plan in 1994 is described in detail elsewhere on this web site.

Superintendent Hayes tried to make it look like the School Board had approved a "draft copy" of the DMP at their March meeting which included the definition of "public lewdness."  When the printed version of the DMP was distributed to every single Katy ISD student on the first day of school, a grandmother of an elementary student called me that evening.

She had sat down with her grandchild to read the DMP-- which reading was required in writing by the school district.

She read the passage to me, and I was surprised and stunned.  As the board member who ALWAYS reviewed the DMP draft copy before the board approved it, I KNEW that the passage had not been there in March.

However proving that was not easy.

The superintendent was adamant that the Board had approved the addition of the passage.

In a few days after looking through my personal files, I found my "draft copy." 

The superintendent was not happy to see it.

While the Board felt sorry for him for his decision, they insisted that he take responsibility and write a letter of apology to the District.  He did, and the Board did as well.

I affirmed later that the superintendent with the blessings of the principals had, at an administrator's meeting, approved the change AFTER the Board had approved something else.

Without my penchant for saving every piece of paper, the Board would have been forced to take blame for something they absolutely did not do.