Old School New Group at Harry Stone?

Old School New Group

Old school new group action at Dallas ISD‘s Harry Stone Montessori?

Last week we reported on a large percentage of teachers leaving Dallas ISD’s South Dallas Montessori campus. That resulted in dozens of calls and emails that show teachers are leaving due to campus assaults by students of staff members.

A second Zoom was held last night where Trustee Maxie Johnson stated he thinks parents are racist for bringing up assaults against teachers. We have reached out to Mr. Johnson for comment repeatedly without success.

Old School New Group

To date, he has not spoken substantively about the campus assaults, teachers leaving, or other relevant issues, but he has now accused a parent of racism for wanting his child to be in a safe school environment.

Old School New Group Cliques Continue

One source says the school continues to be run by the Blackburn family who delete posts out of the Facebook group that brings any negative attention. Lew Blackburn is on the school Site Based Decision Making Committee and Tes Blackburn is the President of the PTA.

The Blackburns were also accused of deleting all posts, but Facebook archived older posts.

We have run through three years of posts and do not find any post about current events or past topics such as misappropriation of bus funds which led to parents creating a Trust so that student fundraising dollars could not be misappropriated.

Harry Stone Update

Harry Stone Update

A quick Harry Stone update from the news yesterday that a teacher is reported to have been assaulted on campus by the child of another district employee. A post about the topic in a Harry Stone Montessori Facebook group says Tes Blackburn was not contacted.

This information came via a post by her husband Lew Blackburn Jr.

Harry Stone Update: Blackburn Comments

However, his wife seems to not check her email.

Harry Stone Update: Blackburn Email

We understand that not everyone wants to answer questions about incidents and issues in areas they have oversight, but we are developing information on a series of incidents at Harry Stone Montessori going back a decade.

Other Harry Stone Update Information

Lew Blackburn Jr. also states he is an alumni of Skyline High School, not Townview. A former parent had told us they thought he was connected to Townview, but we will take Lew Blackburn Jr’s word for it. Apparently we got the spelling of his wife’s name incorrect also.

We are disappointed though that he has been removing content from the Facebook group repeatedly rather than deal with the underlying issues.