Pablo Rodriguez, one of four SAISD honorees, spent a day at his former neighborhood schools talking to children and teens.
Pablo Rodriguez , a New York banking executive, was back in his neighborhood schools on San Antonio ’s West Side this week to talk about learning, character and hard decisions. It had been nearly 25 years since he was valedictorian and senior class president at Lanier High School — and voted most likely to succeed. It was startling, after decades of bond improvements and tightened security, to see the school’s main entrance had moved.
school is Bexar County’s only blue-ribbon campus “You guys need to do the work and figure out what’s best for you,” said Rodriguez, the chief communications officer for consumer & community banking at JPMorgan Chase.
plans a study in about a year that could result in more closures. While Lanier had an 80% facility usage rating in the district’s rightsizing study last year, De Zavala Elementary came in at 69%, and Tafolla Middle School at 67%. Rodriguez, his parents and his grandparents had attended these schools, but he hadn’t been back in the neighborhood in nearly 20 years. He called it an area filled with “beauty and soul and pride.
Foundation also honored Ellen Riojas Clark, an Edison High School graduate and bicultural-bilingual studies scholar at the University of Texas at San Antonio; Bobby Perez, a Jefferson High School alumnus and chief legal officer and general counsel with Spurs Sports & Entertainment and U.S. District Judge Xavier Rodriguez, a Burbank High School graduate and former Texas Supreme Court Justice.
board approves action to expedite air-conditioning repairs Eighth grader Caesar Torres, 13, plays guard on Tafolla’s football team and has ambitions of someday going pro, or perhaps being a trauma surgeon. He used the high-tech goggles to simulate treating a man hurt in a car accident — checking his blood pressure and administering a shot. “I liked it, because it showed me if I want to be a doctor, what I’ve got to do,” Torres said.
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