Saturday, October 04, 2008

CCSD Lowest Common Denominator: Excellence

Mindless repetition?

Are you beginning to wonder, as I am, how CCSD Superintendent McGinley defines the word "excellence"? Here's how she uses it in her latest letter posted on the CCSD website:
". . .this week, there were several shining examples of excellence. We wrapped up the first phase of our School Redesign Initiative with meetings at Wando and West Ashley High Schools, and I thank everyone—over 1,000 people from all across the county—for participating during this first step of the process."
Was it excellent that people came to the meetings or that the meetings ended?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm betting it's the latter. They couldn't get out of their downtown community meeting fast enough after nearly 200 showed up. They don't want these people's input. They just want it to look that way.

Anonymous said...

Nah. Elliot Smalley needs to wishlist a new thesaurus on Amazon to find another word for "excellence" for when he ghostwrites those weekly letters.