𝐖𝐇𝐎 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐏𝐏𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐒𝐂 𝐁𝐎𝐀𝐑𝐃 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐄𝐒 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐈𝐑 𝐀𝐃𝐄𝐋𝐀 𝐆𝐀𝐑𝐙𝐀 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐑𝐈𝐃𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐒𝐂 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐑 𝐈𝐍𝐇𝐈𝐁𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐂?

Despite all the rhetoric, posturing and personal attacks associated with TSC's currently impotent vocational education arm, ITEC on Mexico Boulevard, all of this can be reduced to a few basic facts or truths.

Make no mistake.  TSC has created a wonderful facility at ITEC, with a $2,600,000 investment in instructional welding equipment alone. (Now, TSC has grossly overpaid for much of this, well above retail in some cases, but that's a sad, shameful story we'll deal with in due time.)

At the risk of having our arguments denigrated as simplistic, let's just say we're reducing a problem down to its lowest common denominator, solving an equation like a freshman Algebra student, or, more effectively put, cutting through all the bull shit.

If you believe the old truism that knowledge brings responsibility, who among all the administrators, trustees and instructors actually KNOWS what's stifling, choking, hindering ITEC from performing it's mission?

Two members of the Board of Trustees know the root of the problem at ITEC, and have identified the cancer that MUST be removed before it spreads further; Board of Trustees Chair Adela Garza and Vice-Chair J.J. De Leon, Jr.

Thomas Tynan

Garza and De Leon see clearly the role that the bullying, redneck Director of Manufacturing and Construction Education, Thomas "Rambo" Tynan, has played in stifling, stymieing and squelching the success of the program.

Chair Garza, we've been told by TSC insiders, vowed to get rid of Tynan for the good of TSC and set out to do just that, but was blocked for some unfathomable reason.

TSC President Rodriguez,  Board of Trustees Chair Garza

Did TSC President Jesus Roberto Rodriguez stop Adela from doing what's best for TSC?  We don't know that.  All we know is that Chair Garza's effort to rid TSC of that obvious cancer was blocked.

This story will not go away.  Too many have a vested and genuine interest in ITEC reaching the same level of success enjoyed by TSC's academic side. 

Still, since the articles on the McHale Report and the Brownsville Observer have identified shortcomings in ITEC's operation, we've been told that TSC President Jesus Roberto Rodriguez has ordered that all welding instructors at ITEC be certified.

That, my friends, is a start.