Dot Scott has lied to Nelson Rivers III, whose speech can be seen on the P & C's website. At least, I assume that Rivers wasn't being ironic when he said that the organizers of CSMS "want a segregated, or almost segregated, school" at Rivers. Maybe that was a joke? Or maybe a school that is all-black, such as virtually every school in District 20 except Buist Academy, isn't considered segregated by Scott and Rivers? Frankly, given the circumstances, Rivers's comments are bizarre.
Dot Scott is worried. Oh, not about the de facto segregated schools on the peninsula--about getting an integrated one. This is the most logical explanation for the illogical line that Scott, as Chairman of the Charleston NAACP, draws between Arthur Ravenel, Jr.,'s now famous blow up at 75 Calhoun Street and the Charter School for Math and Science's use of the Rivers campus. Scott hopes to use those remarks to drive an old man from office and prevent the election of another one who just might oppose the 5 - 4 majority of the present Board. See Friday's P & C for Meeting AddressesInequities in Schools.
Given that headline, didn't you assume that finally the NAACP and the phantom Interdenominational Alliance (that exists only for public meetings like this one) were going to demand that Charleston Progressive Academy, an almost all-black magnet school only two blocks from Buist Academy, get the resources it needs to be truly a magnet? Or that Fraser Elementary get its very own principal? Nary a mention. Instead we get more of the same from Scott and her cronies.
Let's all keep in mind that Ravenel, who certainly has his flaws, has been one vocal and mostly effective opponent of the majority of CCSD Board members led by erstwhile civil-rights attorney Gregg Meyers and Board Chairman Hillery Douglas, who can't even get control of the Board's agenda (if McGinley has been writing it, as the circumstances of the brouhaha suggest).
This meeting kicks off the election campaign to make sure that November's replacements for Board members follow the racist agenda set up by the NAACP. Despite who shows up at Monday's CCSD Board meeting, it is a "failing mindset." Thank God.
Friday, June 06, 2008
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Nelson Rivers has been in Baltimore too long and isn't in touch with what's going on in South Carolina anymore. Look, there's nobody left in Charleston who remembers when Rivers was desegregated, much less who was involved. What I really find outrageous is when Nelson Rivers rants about those who would turn the clock back forty years. Does he realize that our downtown schools were integrated 40 years ago (1968) but they're segregated now? Does he really want to go on record saying he likes the way our public schools are? He's on the wrong side of this argument and Dot Scott has made him out to be a fool.
Who exactly was the CCSD staff member that heard Ravenel say what he is reported to have said? Why did it take nearly a month and a half or more, from early April until late May, for this story to surface from behind the scenes at 75 Calhoun? Who within CCSD is really working this story? Hey, Jerry Adams, are you still in there?
Cuzzin's best friend Clara is the one who busted him. McGinley had to get all her possible law suit papers ready in case he didn't apologize to her. But, of course, McGinley is fixin' to cut and run and then sue the district for a hostile work place. Hell, she is the one responsible for all of these failing programs not Goodhoe
From what I've seen and heard, McGinley is responsible for a great deal of hostility in the workplace as it is. She can be just as vicious as Goodloe when she sends someone packing. Like Goodloe, McGinley is also known for her ability to humiliate and reduce to nothing any subordinate that becomes a target. She's quite able to minimize her non-subordinates as well. She can play the political smear game as well as any seasoned politician.
The superintendent is still just a high priced figurehead. McGinley, as Goodloe before her, is simply the temporary captain of an out of control mega-tanker. CCSD is way too big. The institution exists for its own benefit and will use every resource, group or faction at its disposal to crush its opponents.
It will be a tribute to McGinley's agility but not her integrity if she can jump overboard and make her escape without getting ground up by the propellers.
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