With more economic woes reported every day, seeing Superintendent McGinley refuse to accept an $8,000 performance bonus and $300 more per month travel allowance from a lame duck School Board was heartening.Citing her already sufficient $184,000 per year salary and $800 per month in-district travel allowance, McGinley stated it was "too sweet" of her toadies to award her more money considering the depths of the district's financial woes. She also hesitated to accept as valid the score projections from her own district staff (the basis for the bonus), just for appearance's sake. In fact, McGinley said that she had begged the School Board to save its vote until the actual scores were known so that she would not to appear to be milking the district. [See School Board Gives Superintendent Good Marks in Tuesday's P & C.]
Oops! Sorry. That report was from the National Sarcasm News Service.
To set the record straight, McGinley said none of the above and happily accepted the money and a year's extension on her contract. Oh, and she blushingly asked that the "bonus be delayed." How coy.
If you really want more of this nonsense from CCSD, vote Green, Fraser, Oplinger, and Lecque. The Superintendent will have a really professional cheering squad.
Sanity lies with Stewart, Kandrac, Engelman: at least they won't ask McGinley how high to jump. If more nonsense like this latest comes out, I may even force myself to vote for Altman!
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You're right on track. I think I need to go back and retract.
Truth is better than fiction, except in this case it's "better" than the fiction of Stephen King. With each new story, the entire public school system in Charleston becomes more outrageous than anything Stephen King could dream up. George Orwell's characters have been out paced long ago.
At an event today to publicly dedicate the start of new construction of Sanders-Clyde, Mayor Riley went on about his march to Columbia and the holes in his shoes all for the cause of taking down the Confederate flag. Not only was it a recycled address, it was totally out of place. Dr. McGinley dutifully looked on. It was all very strange. What planet are these people on?
Some of the people who taught at what was originally called the East Bay Street School in the 1950's were on hand. What a wealth of knowledge these people could have offered, but this opportunity was trampled, not by students or parents, but by our illustrius leaders. No one wants to hear politicians talking about themselves, especially when they are so patronizing. It's clear our leaders have no appreciation of history or truth, unless it's all about them.
CCSD's superintendents are like college football coaches. You give them a raise just before you fire them or they take a better job somewhere else. Too bad our mayor isn't just as fly-by-night.
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