Oops! Sorry, that was Voltaire on the ancien regime, not McGinley on the new Charter High School for Math and Science. Silly me to get them confused!Seriously, is anyone left who thinks CCSD isn't playing hardball? If the board had no choice but to approve the school, and if not allowing it to use Rivers would fly in the face of major public support, what could CCSD's fallback position be but to gut the school financially to the best of its ability? Voila! That's $300,000 per year for rent.
Nancy McGinley needs to get out more, out of 75 Calhoun Street, that is. This is not Philadelphia. We have a diverse, publicly-supported group of parents trying to create an integrated school on the penninsula, trying to undo the neglect and studied abandonment by previous ancien regimes that have left downtown schools in shambles and segregated.
No one doubts that this plan was hotly negotiated prior to Monday's meeting and was never in danger of failing, as long as voting by cell phone was allowed.
But who allowed it? And was it legal? Surely charter school supporters are now pursuing the answer.
Me? I can hardly wait to see the results of Buist address verification. I wonder if they'll differ from last year's.
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The next round of negotiations will tell much more about where downtown schools are going. Burke, CPA, Memminger and those challenging Buist's waiting lists all have a stake in seeing CCSMS succeed. It wasn't an accident that Lonnie Hamilton, Pete Lawrence and others spoke on the fair treatment of CPA last night as many others endorsed the charter school's application.
And what a surprise! After the people rose up to crush the "Infamous Thing" in 1789, they eventually discovered that there were some institutions of value found in the ruins of the old regime. These simply became corrupted but could be reformed. How much better the premiere national high school, Ecole Louis le Grande, was allowed to become when it was emptied of the dim witted children of the court favorites and replaced with the egalitarian hopes of a nation. Ecole Louis le Grande still flourishes in Paris today with the best students attracted to its center city campus from all across the city and even from across France. Perhaps this could be one of the models for CCSMS.
Ruth Jordan continues to butcher the English language. She wants to rescructure scruggling schools and improve inscruction. Here's a board member reinforcing what's wrong with education in Charleston County.
Have you ever noticed that Brian Moody only votes conservatively after he is sure the liberal's vote will carry the motion? This allows Gregg Meyers to be the liberal standard bearer and Moody to be the conservative shill.
The thought had occurred to me! Is this the Chamber of Commerce line?
Burke, Buist, CPA and Charter School for Math and Science all have value reflecting District 20’s pent up frustrations. Successive superintendents have all missed this. It's the cumulative effect of the Crown’s abuse that has the people ready for revolt. Before she gets too comfortable on the throne she’s inherited, McGinley needs to get out among the people she rules, not see the world from just among those who defend the Taj Mahl or frequent the Washout at Folly.
Mr. Choice admitted to the Dist. 20 board he didn't know who would be verifying the residency affidavits parents are supposedly signing and turning into Buist. Hello??? I thought YOU were suppose to do that, Mr. Choice! From what I hear Ms. Ascue made a motion for the Dist. 20 board to review the affidavits themselves. Yeah, right. I'm sure Dr. McGinley will just hand those over. What will all of these parents put on their affidavits? For some of them, it may be just the flip of a coin. Heads it's the Folly Beach house, tails it's the condo downtown...Ho, hum...
Nothing? Nothing less than a thorough and convincing report on the Buist addresses, please. That's the message to the good Dr. McGinley, or the cry from the downtown mob might sooner be, "Off with her head!"
She needs a good dose of reality. The Superintendent, endowed with a Divine Right that only the CCSD Board could appreciate, might wonder why no one except the a few on the Board buys her summation of yesterday’s action on Charter High. Might this appear in her journal for last Monday evening, “On this day, nothing!”?
Well, I guess the honeymoon is over, folks.
Can we get an annulment?
Nancy McGinley could have generated so much support if she had genuinely shown that she was willing to negotiate straight up with the charter school group. They are more than willing to swing their support behind solving other related D20 problems, but she chose not to be honest. It is equally interesting to see that in Joe Riley's formal announcement for re-election yesterday as it appeared in the P&C, he mentioned his support for CCSD and the High Tech High concept but he neglected to make any comment about the developing public groups that are working to improve downtown schools, including Charter High. This could have been an oversight or it could have revealed the possibility that both McGinley and Riley see this type of "parent involvement" as a threat. I've had enough. It's too late for an annulment with Joe, I want a divorce.
On Sept. 12 Dr. McGinley will have a change to meet Dist. 20 school advocates, parents and residents at a presentation which will be held at Burke HS. More details will follow, but this will be the first time that downtown residents will have to ask questions and get answers directly from the new superintendent. I'm sure a lot of ground will need to be covered. It may be our one and only time to let her know what our priorities are from equitably supporting and sustaining programs like CPA, repairing the damage caused by the Buist admission cheats, the future of vocational and AP programs at Burke and most definately her agenda for the Rivers school campus and the Charter School for Math and Science. Maybe some others will have comments about this meeting before Sept. 12.
Why will Dot Scott not speak out about the corruption at Buist? This has been a national news story on ABC Nightly News and Nightline. Isn't the United States Justice Department investigating? Why doesn't our NAACP care about Buist and the unfair treatment of Charleston Progressive? I will never understand the issues they had with a downtown Charter School. All of downtown should go with the Charter method. CCSD has failed the downtown children for years.
In response to Anonymous 3:16 PM, Dot Scott has struck a deal with Joe Riley. He'll keep those interferring white people out of the downtown public schools if she will deliver black votes for his re-election to a ninth term as mayor. Never mind that a very qualified black candidate is running against him. It seems like the decline of our downtown public schools matches Joe Riley's 32 years in office.
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