I thought about writing a satire of Monday night's CCSD School Board meeting, but it would have been too tame. I'd end up with the same problems as the New Yorker. You can't make this stuff up.In its quixotic quest to banish profanity from the lips of school board members, a committee assigned the job of rewriting regulations for behavior proposed that "stated members would refuse to play politics."
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Sorry, I had to take a few minutes there to regain my composure.
It would be pathetic if CCSD students weren't suffering the consequences of attending among the worst schools in South Carolina, which means among the worst in the nation.
After adding in all sorts of other requirements to the policy, including the kitchen sink, Douglas and cronies couldn't manage to pass it.
Worth the loudest horse laugh is Superintendent Nancy McGinley's mental block that caused her to forget to bring up the variant policy in confirming student addresses at Buist Academy. Her problem is that so many lies concerning Buist have come from her quarter that even if she really did forget, no one's going to believe it!
What do you think? Can she manage to forget to bring it up at the next meeting? Can she drag it out until school has actually begun and then allow Principal Sally Ballard her usual delay, linger, and wait dead-slow process?
We all know about Douglas--he's a lame duck anyway. But now Superintendent McGinley has lost any credibility she may have once enjoyed with residents of District 20.
Wasn't Ravenel's original blow up about McGinley's forgetting to put CSMS's using the Rivers campus on the agenda?
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Babbie,
When I read this morning's paper and saw where McGinley said that she "forgot", I could not wait until you posted your comment. Thanks for your take on the situation. I agree 100%.
We gave McGinley a year to show us her colors on her own terms. She has and we're not happy. The same old majority has been in charge for over a decade. She's had a free hand to do right as many inequities were disclosed to her in good faith by District 20 residents, parents and students. Still there are apologists who say she should be given more time and more authority to do her job. With a 5-4 board majority she's had that. And all we've gotten in return are memory lapses?!!
I'm not just for throwing out those who are responsible for this board; I'm for changing the entire dysfunctional system we've all come to despise. It's time for CCSD to morph itself out of existence. If not, maybe CCSD could be scaled back to become a low profile and much less expensive bureaucracy designed only to help neighborhood schools and teachers do a much better job.
We should deconsolidate. If Dr. McGinley, can't remember something as profound as residency verification for Buist Academy, this district is clearly too big for her to handle.
This parody would be funny if it wasn't so tragic and so costly to so many. Nancy McGinley didn't forget about Buist any more than she forgot to include the charter school lease on the agenda last April.
Toya Green is only partly right about narrow agendas. She, not District 20, is the one with tunnel vision. Most of those 40,000 students in her care have been short changed by her lack of concern and disregard for the people trapped within the existing fiefdoms she supports. She's worked hard this past year to keep it that way. Isn’t a fiefdom something like a plantation?
No one can put their trust in these people who are in charge of the education of our children. Believing anything that they have to say is not only disappointing but it is heart breaking.
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