Monday, October 08, 2007
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17 comments:
I only saw the local TV news reports. It looks like Nancy McGinley is waffling on how AMHS students will be chosen. First she's for the way it is. Now she's for going to a lottery. Why? CCSD has already proven they don't know how to run a lottery. I'd like to know what school board members said last night.
I wasn't there. I've realized it's a waste of time to speak in front of those people.
I guess I'll watch "The Nancy Cook Show" on Ch. 60 later.
I wasn't there either for much the same reason. From what I'm picking up from the paper and TV news is the county board and the Superintendent are finally realizing that CCSD's policies (if they exist) are all over the lot. Buist, AMHS, St. Andrews M&S, Jennie Moore, all those magnet schools seem to follow different rules. There's no consistancy. Looks like they're planning to white wash this on the 24th. All this just to keep the Buist lottery from standing out as a sore thumb.
I hope the new writing program approved by the board Monday night will also improve CCSD's spelling--it's called the "Writing Assesment and Training Purchase" on CCSD's website AND in the news release attached!
Jeeze, you'd think they could at least spell it correctly, as this is a program designed to improve writing skills. So where did the PR people receive their training?
I just read Butzon's editorial in the paper today. Exactly what has HE done to desegregate any school? What has he ever done and what does his CEN do besides engage in political activity? How is he tied to Joe Riley? I am told that the school board will do exactly what he tells them to do because of who backs him.
Butzon has stood in the way to obstruct every parent or community initiated idea to improve downtown schools. As a product of lilly white segregated suburban Atlanta schools in the early 1960's, what does he know about what will or won't work for downtown Charleston schools? He's a paid lobbist who has failed to register with the state ethics commission as a lobbiest. Has he ever been called down by the county board chairman for speaking on the same subject twice within a 6 month period? Probably not.
I always thought the word was "inarguable," Mr. Butzon, not "unarguable."
You taught me something. Too bad the rest of what you wrote is less educational.
Since when does Barbara Williams let a commentary get away with making an unsubstantiated assertion. Butzon has just announced that the new math and science charter school is moving to another location. No, it's still at Rivers...more permanently than ever. More accurately it's Butzon that's moved. Now that he's no longer in rent free digs at The Citadel, where is he (and CEN) now hiding out?
Haven't you noticed? The Post and Courier plays these games to pacify the Darby clan; i.e., the Mayor's buddies.
I hear there is a transcript of the Buist hearing and Sallie Ballard testified that no one is on the District 20 waiting list for Kindergarten this year. 31 children were on the original list and 10 would have been admitted. Are we to think that nearly all the rest did not pass the YCAT? It sounds like they did not want a repeat of the previous year. Did they make sure that no one was on the waiting list to avoid lawsuits? It's fishy. I know of one that turned down a slot (too much corruption at Buist for that family) but I doubt that the other 20 downtown children were "not Buist" material". A FOIA request should be done to see if a higher percentage of downtown children were failed and by what proctors.
Word on the street is that people were afraid to use false addresses because they didn't want to end up on the tv news like the previous cheaters. It must be strange at Buist to finally have a class that is made up of a good number of real downtown children. Perhaps those parents will help reform the school when they discover that the higher grades (1-8) have nearly no downtown children.
Funny thing about how Beverly Birch (a retired CCSD employee & columnist for The Chronicle) and Joe Darby will go to any extreme to show their dislike for the charter school. They are so desparate they're now defending Buist. They are now reasoning that with district run magnet schools as good as Buist and Academic Magnet, we shouldn't need a charter school downtown. Really? Since when did District 20 kids, especially minorities, have access to Buist and the Academic Magnet? The fact that real District 20 parents (not hired guns from outside) are supporting a charter school with true access for downtown kids must be making them feel uncomfortablly late to the show.
The fact is the Ministerial Alliance & Dot Scott's personal branch of the NAACP are finally being seen for what they failed to do for our schools years ago. Downtown parents simply got tired of waiting and are now doing it for themselves. These critics need to face the facts and not just play on emotions.
It's rumored that this crowd is going to hold a news conference on Friday (or soon afterwards) to rally people against the charter school. (Sounds like what they tried to do against JICHS.) Maybe they will hold up signs in support of Busit Academy, too. That would be a hoot.
I'm sorry...did you just say Rev. Darby is defending Buist???
I guess he and his bigoted anti-charter Ministerial Alliance group have concluded, at least for their short term political purposes, Buist is supportable if it's something CCSD's board supports. And since CCSD's board is opposed to the charter school (watch what they do, not how they voted) then politics can make for strange bedfellows. They really don't care about quality education for downtown kids anyway (white or black). This is just a wedge issue to make them look like they are doing something against Arthur Ravenel.
I have to agree with Ravenel...the more these people declare their dislike of the charter school for math and science, the more people are interested in supporting it...including a large group of downtown African-American parents.
Hillery Douglas is at it again. With witnesses present (again) he threatened a District 20 school supporter and tried to get them to recant their support for the charter school. It seems these non-downtown residents can't find any downtown African-American parents to support the High Tech program at Rivers instead of standing by their calls for improvements to Burke.
It seems Dot Scott, Joe Darby and Ruth Jordan were among the witnesses and used Nelson Rivers as the bait. It was an ambush that reflected badly on those who set it up. The District 20 resident said "No".
This isn't how Black Unity works, Dot, at least not if it is to have any intergrity. It has to come from the heart and soul, not threats and intimidation. What would happen if the details of this "high tech lynching" were to get out prior to Hillery's re-election bid next year?
Perhaps it should get out. He's done this before. His other victims may want to come forward. Hillery Douglas clearly has some anger management issues he needs to address. And from the peculiar way he and his friends treat District 20 parents behind closed doors, the others may have some explaining to do.
Not to be confused with the much more active North Charleston Branch of the NAACP, Dot Scot is the President-for-Life of the Charleston Branch of the NAACP, which no longer resembles the great chapter it once was. The Charleston Branch is a much smaller, less effective and disproportionately loud organization compared to other far more representative NAACP chapters, including the North Charlestn Branch, found in other SC communities.
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