Using smoke signals, Pony Express, Civil War casualty records, and 1950s phone books, CCSD doggedly forged full-speed ahead in its quest to verify magnet-school student addresses, despite nagging questions from Diette Courrege! One need look no further than its inability to finish verifying those addresses to substantiate how inefficiently it spends tax dollars. [See District Still Validating Addresses.]Making no excuses for this strategy, Doug Gepford (the CCSD official in charge) pointed out that people don't want to be hired, that counting violators who are identified is impossible, and that CCSD will follow breadcrumbs to the end of the earth to find parents who haven't responded, even if it takes a hundred years.
Bravo!
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The Buist parents will be out in full force on this posting with a little bait.
Maybe we should list the cheaters again. I kinda miss them.
Hey they could have hired the District 20 board to do the verifications. They certainly have the experience and they probably would have done it at no cost in record time.
CCSD has never been serious about address verifications unless it was an excuse to silence a critic or get rid of someone they didn't like.
I thought Buist was supposed to start verifying those admitted this year were still in compliance with the list those students entered on. With so many Buist students moving so soon after they gain admission...not just after school starts...the new policy was to hold them to the the lists. Didn't Hillery Douglas say something about immediate inforcement and not just giving violators a pass until the end of the year? Are they (CCSD officials and the Buist principal) in violation of the new policy already?
You would think they would at least try to do a better job of faking an appearance of compliance.
Thursday's postings under this topic have been reposted here for your reading pleasure and before it disappears from the Post and Courier blog...
Posted by Thomas1776 on October 9, 2008 at 5:15 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Whats so hard about validating addresses that it has taken so long? We are not sill in the 1980s anymore. There is no excuse for this. The internet allows instant access to all sorts up data bases with updated information.
So whats up? Someone trying to pull the wool over our eyes? If anyone is lying on their applications, prosecute them for perjury and put them in jail for a few days. That will deter the BS.
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Posted by holly123 on October 9, 2008 at 9:21 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Why do they have to hire 11 employees to do this? Charter schools do this with a person on staff! Why can't they get it right? They have to stop spending our money like crazy!
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Posted by dolphins66 on October 9, 2008 at 10:08 a.m. (Suggest removal)
My child attends one of the magnet schools. A few parents have discussed with me the fact that some students are still attending this school and do not live within this district. This has been going on for years and it makes me wonder REALLY how serious Charleston County Schools are to solve this issue. In the meantime, children who could be gaining from a fairly better education at this school cannot because students who don't belong there have taken their space. Consider the fact that many of these students who can't have a seat here don't have parents who may be able to afford to send them to a private school. Of course there may be more to the story than meets the eye, however, it does SEEM that some of these student's parents are MUCH more involved in things like PTA so could it be a trade? Your kids can continue to go here as long as you remain VERY involved? Or is something else going on?
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Posted by holly123 on October 9, 2008 at 12:07 p.m. (Suggest removal)
There is something else going on. The verification process should be COMPLETE before the first day! Privaqte schools with much fewer employees know where their students live! It would take no more than a 4% tax bill or a valid lease and phone bills and checking on both parents in WHITEPAGES.com for most of them. The ones that don't send in the paper work need a house call. Thats it! If they don't want to prove where they live then don't come on the 1st day.
How come it's all about Buist... the P & C mentions other magnet schools? I guess those aren't as fun to hate
Are you really serious?
The whole reason the residency policy was addressed in the first place was because the District 20 board discovered the rampant false address use at Buist Academy.
Now, its conveniently the one school where their not enforcing their own policy.
I was just checking out the CCSD website thinking I should apply to help them verify those addresses, yet I couldn't find the posting for that vacancies. But check out https://www2.recruitingcenter.net/Clients/ccsdschools/PublicJobs/controller.cfm
They sure do have a lot of openings. What happened to all of those positions we filled at the start of the school year? What are these vacancies?
McClellanville Middle School is advertising for a long term substitute but the requirement is certification in Middle School ELA or Elementary Ed. Are they really serious? Who posted that?
Isn't that so CCSD? Do they really think a certified teacher is going to jump at the chance to be paid as a long term sub? I wonder how long that job will be vacant. Benefits? I think not.
CCSD...Where Excellence is our Standard!
Now that I think about it. I might take that job if it was at Brentwood. With the price of gas, McClellanville is just too far to drive. After all, Board Chairman Douglas said Brentwood has become an excellent school.
anonymous 9:38... did you read the P&C article? The School of the Arts has 25% unverified address while the other magnet schools have 5%... so it's not only the "Big Bad Buist" not following orders!!
Good point. Yet, it's scary to think of what the percentage would be at Buist if the District was actually verifying addresses the same way their verifying them at the other schools. Remember, the other schools are verifying "that students live in the same addresses that made them eligible to attend." Yes, I read the article.
At Buist, they're just making sure those fake District 20 parents still live in Charleston County.
I say, "Kudos" to Diette. Were it not for her, they probably wouldn't be doing anything at all.
Damn. I keep typing "their" when it should be "they're."
I'm correcting my mistake. Too bad CCSD won't do the same.
Dare I ask what list you came in on, Anonymous 8:16 am?
Anonymous 9:01... we live on Johns Island, used our Johns Island address and came into the school on the county list... we did everything within the guidelines and were lucky to be picked
the school has asked me for my tax records and two utility bills for the last few years AND I had to sign and notorize an affidavit that I'm telling the truth about where I live
This year I was a little late getting it to them and received a letter from Sallie Ballard to comply by a certain date
So it's hard for me to believe the school isn't following the rules
Then you didn't read the article.
I did read the article, but I'm also going by real life situations at the school and what I've been through
Do you believe everything you read?
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