Depends on how you look at it: 26 Students Charged in Fight.
At least administration called in the law.
Wednesday, September 02, 2009
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12 comments:
So now what?
Obviously those poor folks at North Charleston High School take the hit so you can have your charter schools, and other "successful" schools.
Expel them from these other schools and they can send them there.
Imagine if other schools had to keep their own neighborhood students, instead of restricting their student body to only kids whose parents care.
A very simplistic response to a complicated problem. You don't really believe that charter schools are the blame for this mess, do you? Did charter schools force NCHS to stay on its Montague campus while constructiuon occurred? Ask Bill Lewis? Did charter schools confine NCHS students to a 7:00 am start time two years ago? Ask Nancy McGinley. Did charter schools reassign NCHS students to Brentwood while construction delays occurred? Ask Nancy McGinley. Did charter schools hire a 60-plus year old woman with absolutely no inner city high school experience to manage NCHS? Ask Nancy McGinley again. Was that small group of loyal remaining NCHS teachers allowed to return to their school after the announcement of reconstitution? Ask Lou Martin. This was bungled from the get-go by a superintendent who could care less about the north-area schools and has the track record (or lack thereof)to prove it. BTW Are ALL of the potential NCHS students at that one charter school? Hardly. Check your facts. Garrett, Military Magnet, Academic Magnet, Stall (yes, Stall), School of the Arts ALL have larger numbers of these students than any one charter school. And Garrett, Military Magnet, etc. ALL return non-performing students to their respective home schools, including NCHS. Most of the magnet schools also screen their prospective students before admitting them. The Math and Science Charter screens NO ONE. Know the facts before you lash out at one charter school.
High Schools That Work to the rescue? The priority should have been a safe and orderly school. Nothing else matters until you fix that problem. Some people have figured that out. Some never will.
In defense of Juanita Middleton, she is a fabulous person and good administrator but I do not think I would have assigned her to North Charleston. What I would have done instead is let her remain at Burke (an already established faculty and staff and a place where she is known and respected)and allow Mr. Benton to take over North Charleston, considering his experiences in that type of school environment.
Additionally, it was not a good idea to have those high schoolers on Brentwood's campus...construction could have waited until there was some school reconstruction inside for the benefit for all who work with the students of North Charleston High.
There is even a deeper problem here too and that is more political than anything. Seemingly, downtown schools are becoming more safe as North Charleston school become more dangerous---signs of gentrification from Downtown? Comments anyone?
You are assuming Charles Benton would have accepted the position. Perhaps it was offered to him and he declined.
Well... I wasn't making any assumptions...just thinking in the mindset of any good superintendent. As a superintendent, you have to know the strengths and weaknesses of your leaders. You have to know who fits best where. The only way you know these things is you spend time in the schools seeing your administrators in action. You should not only measure their success on some stupid "Charleston Achieving Excellence" Plan (which is grammatically incorrect and sounds real ignorant on the part of someone who holds a Ph.D. in education). Shouldn't it be Charleston's Achieving Excellence or Charleston: Achieving Excellence? They need to re-work that one truly.
To go back to my main point, yes, any good superintendent knows her administrators enough to place them where they are best needed. Not to be sexist at all, I think North Charleston High School needs a young man who can perhaps be mentored by a person like Juanita Middleton. She is sharp no doubt.
How "sharp" she is is immaterial. Has she proven she can run an inner city school like NCHS? Does she have the support of the community and the mayor's office? What is her record? That's the bottom line. As for the superintendent, let's count the number of accomplished principals she has run off during her tenure. Look at the records of these principals after they leave CCSD. That is how "sharpness" is defined. BTW McGinley owns this decision, lock, stock, and barrel. She made the driving decisions that now have NCHS where it is. Let's see if she admits it. Wanna' bet?
I looked back at some older topics/posts and the comments from some people about Mr. Colwell were "nice man," "didn't fix graduation rate," etc. Well, right now, I imagine his name has been mentioned more than a few times the last 24 hours. People can say what they want but one has to acknowledge he would never have allowed this fiasco to happen. I wish the P%C would ask McGinley one question: Exactly why did David Colwell leave?
Well, why did David Colwell leave?
Perhaps Mr. Colwell left NCHS because all that glittered was not gold under his watch.
We got your old superintendent and with her the Broad Foundation and a lot of headaches. We are figuring it out though. Check out http://seattle-ed.blogspot.com/.
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