CCSD Board member Gregg Meyers began to prepare the public for school closings Monday night by revealing part of his hand at the scheduled Trustees meeting. Schools will be closed, and their properties sold off to the highest bidder and/or friend of Joe Riley. That sale will balance the budget for a year-to-be-named down the road.
That brings us to Fraser Elementary, the school that didn't even merit its own principal during the 2007-08 school year. Is there anyone so naive as to think that the goal of 75 Calhoun is NOT to merge Fraser with Sanders-Clyde and sell the Fraser property for development? If so, that person probably doesn't read this blog! Now, if this betrayal were on the horizon in Mt. Pleasant, parents would rise up in droves to keep their neighborhood school. Meyers knows he can pick on Fraser because its parents are poorer and less well-connected. They will rise up, but can they prevail? How suave.
You see, Superintendent McGinley and her cronies at 75 Calhoun, as instructed by Meyers and his toadies on the Board, plan for ONE ALL-BLACK elementary school on the peninsula--Sanders-Clyde. Never mind that elementary students learn better in smaller "learning communities." Never mind that their projections for student enrollment are based on "funny" numbers. McGinley and Meyers can't even see the differences between the student bodies at the two schools. Even after all these years, McGinley still doesn't understand the dynamics of CCSD's neighborhoods--just look at her misidentification of the neighborhood surrounding St. Andrew's Elementary. Meyers knows but doesn't care. After all, Buist and the Academic Magnet took care of HIS children.
Why aren't we hearing from the NAACP on this issue? Hmm.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
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Gregg Meyers is proving that there are many ways to abuse the children within our schools and to undermine the communities that depend on them. I guess what goes around comes around. He seems to imply that it's the parents fault if these downtown schools fail. Never mind the funding games, budget full of failed experiments, the continuously revolving door for teachers and administrators. Isolate and destroy. Belittle and minimize. Pass the trash. Why tell anyone the truth? No one knows better than Gregg Meyers. Besides, his family is taken care of, why should he care about anyone else?
Wasn't it Gregg Meyers who chided a certain headmaster of a certain private school for blaming the parents for what happened to their children? Yes, what Gregg Meyers is doing to our downtown schools is no less damaging as what happened to that school. The people those parents trusted to protect their children, turned and looked the other way, and then blamed the parents when it all came crashing down. The difference is that the damage at that school is being repaired. I see no interest from Gregg Meyers in repairing the damage he's doing now, much less acknowledging any responsibility.
Funny numbers and all, Gregg Meyers needs to go.
I agree and I am intrigued by the history on this so called civil rights attorney. By the way, since when is Memminger receiving the same funding as Buist? Who is he kidding? Evidently he's foolin' the Post and Courier.
Is it legal for the school district to sell real estate to pay operating expenses? It sure isn't a good idea.
After it sells its assets, who's going to be asked to pay to replace these schools when CCSD decides we needs new ones a year or two later? Of course, the taxpayers will be the ones to foot yet another expensive and short sighted plan from McGinley.
Bet they'll close and sell these properties before any more charter schools try to get their hands on one of them.
Who's really making these decisions anyway? I can't imagine Meyers cares. So who's really pulling McGinley's chain on this deal? I know, I know. All CCSD decisions are 'data driven' and 'fully researched'.
So why can't these 'data junkies' ever get it right? Because the best of them have no idea what they are doing and the worst of them are in someone else's pocket.
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