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In reply to the discussion: Girls excluded from 'Red Tails' field trip; Thousands of Texas schoolboys brought to see the film [View all]rainbow4321
(9,974 posts)There is so much fall out over the initial movie going that I am pretty sure a) it would have been reported and b) the district is trying to quickly move on. Last local report I read was that the TEA was investigating the whole mess. TEA had already warned the district a WEEK before they pulled this stunt that the agency was scrutinzing how the district was possibly misspent fed funds...and then the movie going news broke with the district announcing that same day that the TEA had approved it, with the TEA immedlately going "uh, NO, we did not"
On a related note..the school district I live in (my kids graduated several years ago but I still read articles about the district) actually invited and had one of the airmen come TO their campus to speak to a group of at-risk kids this past week. And there is a small group of the airmen who will be visiting the local VA facility this week.
So we now have 2 local organizations that will give audiences a genuine lesson in the airmen...as opposed to DISD spending over 50K on a glamorized movie version.