tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post8355981572534403980..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: Senate committee backs juvie probation pilotsGritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-33571531205347695412009-05-29T21:33:31.572-05:002009-05-29T21:33:31.572-05:00All I ever did was boost a few kars and hang with ...All I ever did was boost a few kars and hang with my dogs. You TYC pigs really had to mess wit me to sho how tuff you are. U r geting yr own back now. Hahaha! Wat r yr thikn errars? U r gettin wat u nede. hahahaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-65163824293138106412009-04-22T21:33:00.000-05:002009-04-22T21:33:00.000-05:00I always love to read the generalized comments abo...I always love to read the generalized comments about "TYC" and <br />"TYC Employees." Brilliant.<br /><br />Any word on the outcomes of these recent hearings.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-44388518339214158242009-04-22T20:48:00.000-05:002009-04-22T20:48:00.000-05:00Its hard to stop anything from feeding on still sm...Its hard to stop anything from feeding on still smelling trash. Dogs, etc., run to this crap, much like TYC employees do. Its not over, so stop pretending. YOU were part of the trash/dump/TYC abuse/-junk yard, so step up and take your punishment. YOU show youth how to do it; what a joke. Most of you are hard ups and shown for what you truly are...accept it and get released...heard that before?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-7111044484002875262009-04-22T11:33:00.000-05:002009-04-22T11:33:00.000-05:00It is sad to watch what we have become. Does TJPC ...It is sad to watch what we have become. Does TJPC do everything like I would it... Hell no! No agency with direct oversite can ever make everyone happy. But does Mr. Meade or his little shadow do things like would either... Hell no! <br />But here is the difference. TJPC does openly lie and twist the truth! I have heard thier presentations at things and heard what they say about this and that, then have listened to William and Mr. Meade talk about it to others.... No where close to what was said!<br />"like they did to Mike" the system worked. There was an outcry it was investigated end of story. But Mike likes being a victim and having people pat him on the head for being the poor victim. And he is doing it again here and blasting people that can't defend his false accusations. And he knows it!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-29264647820816479652009-04-21T20:47:00.000-05:002009-04-21T20:47:00.000-05:004/20/09, 8:59 p.m., I am convinced that only one b...4/20/09, 8:59 p.m., I am convinced that only one blogger has been saying "abolish TYC." He is our stray dog and I think most of us have decided to stop feeding him.<br /><br />Furthermore, in my 10.5 years in TYC I NEVER saw or knew about a coworker sexually abusing a child. There is an ALLEGATION that two staff members did that at the West Texas facility, but nothing has been proved. <br /><br />Be careful about believing everything you read, especially comments left on a web log. That includes my comments, of course.<br /><br />XTYCAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-15762479351855748322009-04-21T17:12:00.000-05:002009-04-21T17:12:00.000-05:00If we're wrong about TYC employees, show us. Tell ...If we're wrong about TYC employees, show us. Tell us what good things are happening within your agency and then tell us what issues you've identified. But please, if you mention an issue you should follow up with a recommended solution. <br /><br />Then, maybe it can generate an good discussion with ideas that Cherie and others can take into consideration. We're not name calling, just trying to get you to see that too much complaining and ranting doesn't help. If you really are dedicated to this field and feel that your administrators are off course, use this site as a way to discuss great ideas with others who want to help you. Grits, Howard Hickman, and others always seem to add comments that help too. You can also ask us to brainstorm with you. Please do not take it that we're calling you "poor slobs" and maybe our words were too harsh. <br /><br />We know "some" good has to be occurring somewhere in your agency. We'd just like to hear about that too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-49717409664231457842009-04-21T16:39:00.000-05:002009-04-21T16:39:00.000-05:00Thank you for sharing your superior wisdom with us...Thank you for sharing your superior wisdom with us ANONYMOUS 11:47. We all appreciate your generous willingness to enlighten us poor slobs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-56044767227935133242009-04-21T11:47:00.000-05:002009-04-21T11:47:00.000-05:00As always, TYC employees see what they want to see...As always, TYC employees see what they want to see and they hear what they want to see. After all the complaining, and watching their coworkers pack up, many have now become silent - go-alongers, once again. TYC employees do not change for youth, they change for survival of their own packs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-15956491159765243402009-04-21T07:31:00.000-05:002009-04-21T07:31:00.000-05:00To Mike and "Lil Will" and the other unnamed leade...To Mike and "Lil Will" and the other unnamed leaders out there (you know who you are) thank you for being our voice and for not trying to supress the voices who may disagree with you as they did in North Texas. Everyone has a voice and I encourage you to stand up for your beliefs. The Turner/Griffith's show is getting OLD. Stand up and be heard. Don't let them bully you around. I want to switch to North East or West or Oklahoma, anything but the oppression in North.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-57908427770097206122009-04-21T06:55:00.000-05:002009-04-21T06:55:00.000-05:00Grits,
Maybe now TYC has a chance. The employees...Grits,<br /><br />Maybe now TYC has a chance. The employees are finally standing up for one another instead of fighting each other. Hopefully the "team" concept will continue and CO, facilities, and regional offices will work together to complete the reform process.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-62598627473502984552009-04-21T06:50:00.000-05:002009-04-21T06:50:00.000-05:00Can't wait for the blob post after tomorrow's hear...Can't wait for the blob post after tomorrow's hearings on the pilot programs. I'm afraid they will be lengthy knowing testimony will spark a fire.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-43170401863344122122009-04-20T22:41:00.000-05:002009-04-20T22:41:00.000-05:008:59...I am POSITIVE that I don't know what you ar...8:59...I am POSITIVE that I don't know what you are talking about.<br /><br />I have worked for TYC 12 years now, and I've been reading this blog for over 2 and a half years. <br /><br />You must have skipped over more comments than you have read because you are OVER-generalizing in a big way. I can't relate to most of what you said.<br /><br />I don't know which TYC employees you are referring to, but it sure isn't me or the people I work with.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-82079933287885166132009-04-20T21:46:00.000-05:002009-04-20T21:46:00.000-05:00I am not sure what you are talking about.I am not sure what you are talking about.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-67704731716872333332009-04-20T20:59:00.000-05:002009-04-20T20:59:00.000-05:00I'm confused TYC employees!!!! For the past year, ...I'm confused TYC employees!!!! For the past year, you all have yelled and screamed "abolish TYC". Now that SB103 is here and it looks like the downsizing might just happen, you seem to be crying that the counties can't handle the kids and Cherie sold you out.<br /><br />Remember the old saying "Be Careful What You Wish For Because You Just Might Get It". You blogged about how CO is ineffective, how poorly your facilities operate, and how horrible your coworkers are. At one point many of you cheered for Whitmire, the Sunset Commission and the lege to just close TYC.<br /><br />Now...it appears that since our economy has hit a low point, you all seem to have had a change of heart. Now...no one seems to be blogging about every riot, staff injury or other major safety issue. I mean, I have not read anything about any CO administrator who wont make decisions, should be fired, or should be sent back to another State. <br /><br />Could it be that maybe, just maybe the agency isn't everything you claimed it was or wasn't? Could it be that you all played with fire and now you're all getting burned?<br /><br />Or could it be that you all are becoming silent to save your jobs...just as silent as you were during the time when your coworkers were sexually assaulting kids? I hate to sound so harsh but you all switch sides so much that it leaves readers alittle dizzy. We, outside of TYC, just want to understand...so can you just look inside and tell the truth? We're now questioning if you people really should work with kids...are you really good role models? Over the past year, most of the TYC strings seemed to read like a script from the Jerry Springer Show. It would be nice to read something from Professionals who go to work everyday because they believe that they can make a difference in a kid's life. Saving one kid at a time instead of trying to kill off TYC, one coworker at a time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-89819631262366145502009-04-20T14:15:00.000-05:002009-04-20T14:15:00.000-05:00There is nothing like going through the juvenile j...There is nothing like going through the juvenile justice system with their role models that can help a kid become more and more disrespectful of authority. I remember a therapist friend who I served on a board with, were talking at our kids soccer game about this very issue. It’s a known issue that a kid who is placed in a system managed and run by people who have various degrees of Hall Monitor Syndrome, as its come to be called. Little big man syndrome on a major scale is how it was explained to me. Having to have had to deal with probation officers, parole officers, tyc caseworkers and staff with the little bs games they play, during ones teenage life makes one very cynical to people who are ass’s about their position, no matter the position. Throw in a college degree in something heady like engineering and OMG, you feel like you have to have a frontal lobotomy to drop your intelligence factor exponentially enough so you can attempt to have a conversation with a teacher, principal, cop, da, or a social worker type. I also have issues with people who are not mentally capable of thinking outside the box, but that’s not tyc fault, that blame belongs to my engineering professors who kept telling me I could walk on water. I still believe my engineering professors because they were right, if I believed everything those emps in tyc told me I would been dead a long time ago.<br /><br />A friend of my older son came to dinner one night recently, she works for CPS. We started talking about tyc and the road a kid takes to get there. I finely told her I was a tyc kid and her facial expression changed almost immediately. My initial reaction was to say, “so what now you’re going to do disrespect me?” LOL Actually it was a great conversation and we both learned some good information.<br /><br />Yes having an issue with authority is a battle to be wedged with oneself after any type of contact with the “role models” of our Texas Juvenile Justice system. This is totality the blame of the Hall Monitor Syndrome, Little Person Syndrome that so many people who go into the line of work the Juvi System offers. It’s the nature of the culture and the emps who manage it. The Grits blog is, IMO, a small sample of these role models, because most of them cant blog. <br /><br />If I could only give one piece of advice to any kid who gets out of tyc it would be to get a handle on controlling their issue with authority. The tyc tries to front this out as an anger management issue. [BSBSBS] When you see the pattern of cause generating the effect of anger it will most always be someone who is an authority figure covering their ignorance by being an ass and directing that to you. Those of you not familiar with Juvi systems think about the DMV. This is yet another way tyc deflects the lie they help kids with their faulty system and prepares kids to feed the prison business. This is the one thing that will always get /keep them under state supervision for the rest of their life, jack up their career, ruin their marriage, and generally cause their life to spiral down into the crapper. I have seen this with others and lived it myself and I consider myself very fortunate. I have learned to look for the warning signs and avoid conversation with people like this. I don’t go to the DMV<br /><br />Great ideas 4/18/2009 12:20:00 PM THIS COULD DO AWAY WITH THE PRISON CULTURE AND COULD HELP MORE KIDS <br /><br />Always open to comments’<br />oldschool@ironguardiansnt.org<br /><br />Sheldon tyc#47333 II c/sAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-80697122346958468862009-04-20T09:37:00.000-05:002009-04-20T09:37:00.000-05:00To 4/19/09 3:44 & 3:51
I agree entirely. Do w...To 4/19/09 3:44 & 3:51<br /><br />I agree entirely. Do we need kids to have role models like this?<br /><br />My child and I had a ridiculous encounter with a group of these local kooks. The worst part of all was convincing my child that he needed to still have respect for authority after they had demonstrated clearly they were unethical liars.<br /><br />What I needed at the time was an Ombudsman to provide some immediate relief from the madness.<br /><br />However this all turns out, get an Ombudsman in there and enforce the TJPC standards.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-63081553333514252122009-04-19T23:41:00.000-05:002009-04-19T23:41:00.000-05:00Reading this thread, one can only assume that Sen ...Reading this thread, one can only assume that Sen Whitmire and some of the TJPC posters here have detailed knowledge of the programs these pilot counties plan to offer.<br /><br />Terrific. When do the rest of us get to know about them? Before or after the final votes in the lege?<br /><br />To put it charitably, this is not being handled in a way that inspires much confidence.<br /><br />BBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-64279497195676540832009-04-19T20:45:00.000-05:002009-04-19T20:45:00.000-05:00Sorry. Can't make the hearing. Have to work. The d...Sorry. Can't make the hearing. Have to work. The department is understaffed and overworked. Certainly can't take time off to go listen to a senate hearing. <br /><br />Maybe Grits will have a rep there to let us know. Or maybe you can go for me 7:53, seems you have your finger on the pulse of the legeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-26099616455636042102009-04-19T16:41:00.000-05:002009-04-19T16:41:00.000-05:00Don't give Mike ans Lil Willie all the credit. I ...Don't give Mike ans Lil Willie all the credit. I attended workgroups where many others spoke out. Give credit to Jane, Mark, Elva, Melissa, Neil, Ross, Bing, Nelson, Donna, Bubba, and others who spoke out. What good has it done? Consolidation would be the best way to go but I know that is off the table. At least keep the one board and please make sure the 3 chiefs sit on it as we need that experience to gel the 2 agencies. Thanks to the ones listed above the right people are listening, now SIC EM BULLDOGS!!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-25910891291090550772009-04-19T15:51:00.000-05:002009-04-19T15:51:00.000-05:00One more point: If you would spend all this engery...One more point: If you would spend all this engery on how to help the kids in your care, the ones that are there now instead of the drama that is going on and who you don't like or like, you might see some really good results.<br /> Ok, some one go ahead and tell me off.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-64668396473537657712009-04-19T15:44:00.000-05:002009-04-19T15:44:00.000-05:00Gee Grits these poster on TJPC are like the TYC pe...Gee Grits these poster on TJPC are like the TYC people, fighting, fussing,running down the coworkers. What a agency this will make if they join them both together.<br /><br />Don't you all get it, no body is listening that will change your situation or your adminstrators. Leg is going to do what they have Already decided and all this drama is a waste of your time.<br /> If you hate the people you work for, then do your body a healthy favor and find another job.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-25371054255541538092009-04-19T13:43:00.000-05:002009-04-19T13:43:00.000-05:00Leave Mike alone. He is doing everyone in the fie...Leave Mike alone. He is doing everyone in the field of probation a favor by taking up our causes. I'm sure not going to cause I don't want TJPC's wrath like Mike got. As for all the other's out there who are silent at least do what I did, contact your local legislators. They need to hear from you. Luv ya Mike and WillAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-16832734902393233602009-04-19T09:51:00.000-05:002009-04-19T09:51:00.000-05:00"Lil Willie" is not as smart as you think. If he ..."Lil Willie" is not as smart as you think. If he was as "intelligent" as some say why does he continue to bring up derogatory comments against TJPC? Pretty stupid moves on his part.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-34947004254386807372009-04-19T07:53:00.000-05:002009-04-19T07:53:00.000-05:009:03 there looks like a senate hearing on Wednesda...9:03 there looks like a senate hearing on Wednesday 1:30 to discuss the pilots. Why don't you go so you can see what is intended.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-65633157901766201332009-04-19T07:52:00.000-05:002009-04-19T07:52:00.000-05:006:48 AM you are wrong Mike is not the leader, the...6:48 AM you are wrong Mike is not the leader, there are MANY leaders out there. Mike takes the lead on some issues others take the lead on other issues. I choose to be a follower because I don't have the guts that thay have to stand up to TJPC. There are many of us out there so never doubt the following that Mike and the others have.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com