Tuesday, April 10, 2018

BISD RECYCLING: ESPY, LORENZO...AND HEEERE'S JOHNNY

By Juan Montoya
We're not so happy to tell you that the Brownsville Independent School District has taken a lead on other public entities at recycling.

The City of Brownsville has taken a rather weak stab at citywide recycling, but the old guys in bikes who cruise the alleys looking for discarded pop and beer cans make those efforts look tame. Ditto for the cardboard recyclers who clean up the rusting, overflowing GMS containers.

No, and we're not talking about Martin Arambula' efforts at recycling at the BISD which almost got him fired either, or the recycling of exiled out-of-favor BISD administrators or employees at Transportation or Food and Nutrition Services.

We're talking about recycling human beings. And more and more, it looks like the recycling cycle (is that redundant?) is based on retrieving former BISD personnel from the wilds of Raymondville in Willacy County, of all places.

As we know, BISD Superintendent Esperanza Zendejas has been limping along at the district's top position. And we don't mean professionally, although some might argue that it applies, but physically, as in battling with a damaged hip. Those who see her on a daily basis say she's in need of a replacement. We mean of her hip, of course, but a human replacement seems to be in the works as well.

This is what we've heard.
Apparently, just as trustee Joe Rodriguez brought back CFO Lorenzo Sanchez from the Raymondville ISD to help him grease the skids to raid the BISD general fund and build his grandiose sports palace in the district with artificial turf and a $1.4 million scoreboard at Sams Stadium, he and other trustees are ready to bring back superintendent retread Johnny Pineda.

Pineda, RISD's longest-serving superintendent, retired from the Raymondville on January 31, 2017 after 10 years at the helm. In 2016, parents of the district filed a petition with the board not to extend his contract citing a litany of reasons. He left the BISD in 2007.

"Whereas, we,  the parents of the Raymondville School District and the employees of Raymondville School District hereby declare that we have lost confidence in Johnny Ivan Pineda’s ability to lead the Raymondville School District.. and "call on the newly reorganized board of trustees...to not extend Superintendent Johnny Pineda's contract..."

Pineda retired the following January and moved on.

Now the plans are for Zendejas to rehire him as a Area Superintendent for Human Resources and then go on sabbatical to have her hip replacement surgery. Pineda will then be named interim principal while Zendejas convalesces from her surgery. But, our sources say, Zendejas will not return. Pineda will be named permanent superintendent and join his buddies Rodriguez as trustee and CFO Sanchez, also formerly of RISD, and things will continue to move along merrily.

Zendejas, however, will not be left out and will remain employed in an "advisory" capacity so she won't miss out on her retirement. Neato, hey? 

22 comments:

Anonymous said...

Johnny Pineda is a bad person, all he cares about is money. He doesn't care about people/BISD Staff. We know his sister (Dahlia Pineda) committed suicide, drug and alcohol because of internal family problems. His personal life is in shambles. Bad choice for BISD but, he will do Lorenzo's and Joe's wishes. He is for sale to the board. A petition has been started to prevent his hiring and the board will have to answer to that. We at BISD know Johnny is not the right person to lead BISD. He is conniving and evil. Ask Juan about his family! they are all evil.

Anonymous said...

La Rata de Elizondo va andar recycling la basura en la orilla de la calle cuando lo menten al bote.

Anonymous said...

names of people who commit suicide should never be used at the public level. bad form
editor of his blog should never have allowed the previous comment (Anonymous 12:04) published. bad form
And anyone whose family suffered a similar tragedy would understand. This selfish type of comments should have been sanitized.
Who knows who might be the next person who might kill themselves.
Too many candidates for HARAKIRI.

Anonymous said...

This is terrible
If you must go get someone out of retirement - get a successful leader —
#NOVEMBER

Anonymous said...

Yep, that's the plan. Hip surgery for the sup and out for several months. There is no way she will be back in a few weeks. Pineda will run the show. Right now it's what Joe Rod wants. HR needs direction. Too many moves and favors being done. Although many want to be interim sup in BISD. Quien Sera?

Anonymous said...

Who started the petition? Sylvia Atkinson? She wants to take over so bad at BISD pero la cago cuando estaba aqui. I do hope HR is really looking into the qualifications and past record of all applicants, since they did so closely with Dr. Juan Chavez over the selection of Adrian Dorsett for CT administrator. Chavez is all paper work and Adrian was hands on without papers.

Don Pedro said...

El johnny pineda from porter high school, I remember him, folks over in Raymondville got tired of this person and put him out to pasture-manure better said and now BISD wants his piece of manure-shit back. yikes. Wonderful leadership to run a half a billion dollar operation like BISD. Really BISD board, really? why not ask Raymondville ISD why they got rid of this guy? I guess we all know the answer to that question- no vale sebo ese pelado.

Anonymous said...

Right now any many want to get hired for top AA jobs with a lot of talk and bs. Those in power want to leave their friends and family settled before the sup leaves. Its not about qualifications and experience, its who can talk big and loud and promise the moon ans sky. The sup falls for this all the time...just look at the cate director.

Anonymous said...

Say, Juan, I previously sent you an email that you censured? Who does the censuring for you? The same bitch that tattle-tales to you all the confidential files from BISD? The article you should have censured was the first one and I would not put it pass that same bitch to have been the one to send it to you. As a journalist, you should know never to print, true of false, any name of any person who is said to have committed suicide. Let the dead rest in peace, especially since if it is true, they had no peace while they were here in real life. Te sales, Juan and whoever wrote that 1st blog. Shame on you and lets hope that what goes around does not come back to your family. As for Johnny, he is another problem and a separate issue.

bisd vendor said...

Right now any many want to get hired for top jobs with a lot of talk and BS.
Those in power want to leave their friends and family settled before the sup leaves.
Its not about qualifications and experience, its who can talk big and loud and promise the moon and sky.
The sup falls for this all the time...just look at the facility construction manager and maintenance director.
You cannot find Fernando Villarreal head, he has it up Kenneth Lieck ass!
Same goes to Jerry Martinez head, he has it up Felipe Reyes ass too !

Anonymous said...

And who votes to hire these people. Zendejas does the recommendation but don't dare tell me that they bow to her recommendations. They try to cross her in every way possible. We see that in order to avoid discord, Zendejas has offered to table many items until further study, but it is the board that hires and fires.
Zendejas only recommends to the wall. Why she insists on trying to help out the district is beyond me. I would have already told them to take their job and shove it where the sun doesn't shine. Zendejas was recruited by the board to come and take over when Montoya decided to run. She was sitting at home enjoying her retirement when the board decided she was the best candidate and was already here, ready to go. And she has been on the go since the first day she was in office. Nobody can contradict this cause these are the facts.

Anonymous said...

Johnny had hector G arrested .... if he does this same to this board and Supt I’d support that hire ....

Anonymous said...

Lol
Recruited because she would deliver to joe like she always

She is ineffective and our community deserves better

The board ignores harassment claims to keep their puppet in place

November is coming and so are the investigations

Anonymous said...

We in Raymondville ISD do not recommend Johnny Pineda to BISD. He is arrogant and doesn't care about kids/staff. He is all about himself and what the Board wants. He is for sale to the highest bidder, he is a very selfish person. The worst thing you can do is feel sorry for a person, we in Raymondville ISD feel sorry for Pineda. What a waste of a human being. This man is Evil.

Anonymous said...

It wasn't Johnny, it was Noe Sauceda that got Hector arrested. Noe's termination hearing was scheduled for a Monday and Hector was the star witness against him. The DA had Hector arrested on the Friday before on a misdemeanor charge which they never do. Yolanda DeLeon and Eddie Lucio Jr. were complicit in trumping up the bogus charges against Hector. The reasons why are an other story.

Anonymous said...

From Raymondville parents and staff: Stay away from Johnny Pineda, BISD will make a very big mistake if they hire him. This man does not care about humanity, only about himself. To the citizens of Brownsville, Stay away from this man (Johnny Pineda). We here in RISD are very happy to get rid of him !! We are willing to come down as a unified group to sign the petition not to hire him ! We will wait for instructions from your bog on where to go sign..Thank you sir.

Anonymous said...

Quite frankly, Joe Rodriguez needs to go, he's abusive and corrupt. Why the FBI/Texas Rangers haven't looked at him, it's surprising. Why?

Anonymous said...

Como dicen?...
"Same shit diffrent day"
Hahahahha

Anonymous said...

Juanito Penheada is just another little piss-ant that thinks his shit don't stink.

But he is all about football so JROD will get his man and BISD will build more football palaces.

I heard someone say that all tbe new football facilties will pay off by getting MORE teams in the playoffs.
Well Rivera has thiz multimillion dollar facility and supposedly the best football coach there is and they jave won like e games in the last 3 or 4 years.

Everyone is like oh yeah Ole Tom has 1 more good year in him.

How can this be paying dividends.

SMITH said...

From Raymondville parents and staff: Stay away from Johnny Pineda, BISD will make a very big mistake if they hire him.

Anonymous said...

Hey juan check it out in migdalias court this idiot is facing a million dollar lawsuit while his time in Raymondville and possible criminal charges for allowing thw falsiying of data concerning special education students! He was run out of Raymondville him and lorenzo are thiefs taking tax dollars and handing out big contracts to their friends in Brownsville! It woyld be a big mistakw to higher this bastard as it would SURELY bring scritiny to Brownsville isd!#

Anonymous said...

If April 17, 1:13 PM is against Johnny, then I'm for him.

rita