MY COMMENTARY ON THE SENDELBACH MATTER:

First, thank goodness for Helen Eriksen, the Houston Chronicle reporter, because she was after this story, and the Sendelbachs can thank her for bringing attention to this silly matter that got way out of hand.

The mess was started because Superintendent Leonard Merrell, over time, had allowed the KISD police department and the school board to put in place rules that are ridiculous.  The "zero tolerance" rules, that more than likely were orchestrated by the TASA (which Merrell pretty much ran), were worthless from the outset.  Not much that the TASA ever did that was good, in my opinion.

There was no need to cause this young lady and her family such trouble.  There was no need for an unthinking principal to charge her using such silly rules.

The matter was dumped on the new superintendent, and he didn't know whether he was abiding by the laws or not, he just wanted to get KISD out of the newspapers and off national television, and so he ended it as soon as he could.

Neither superintendent handled it well, but the Katy public was also glad to get the matter off the front page, and so no one said anything more about it. As it's turned out, "getting KatyISD's dirt off the front page" is the modus operandi of Katy's superintendent, Alton Frailey.  The sooner it's out of the public eye, the sooner people will forget about it by board election time!