(Ed.'s Note: By now students are amused - and administrators cringe - to see Brownsville Independent School District trustee Erasmo Castro strolling through the halls of Hanna Early College High School. On any given day, he is seen conversing with groups of students and staff members, ostensibly on fact-gathering sessions.
Always one to seek common ground with an audience, he was recently seen sporting a T-shirt emblazoned with "Free the Moros Chip Dealer" message. The message, we have been told by one of our seven student readers at Hanna, refers to the prohibition by the administration to have students from Matamoros smuggle in Mexican chucherias like hot corn chips do loved by many in the student body but not available at the school [Moros is Matamoros].
It used to be that the administration required non-students to get a release from students' parents to take their picture. Does this also applies to Erasmo who loves to take selfies with others when he is in a crowd? Or is it merely a case of catharsis and a reliving of his high school days?)