First Things First at CCSD's SIxth-Grade Academy

Maybe previous principals rode their bikes to North Charleston's Sixth-Grade Academy (AKA Orange Grove Charter School, AKA Ron McNair Elementary). Or maybe they reduced their carbon footprint by walking. In any event, having their names on the handicapped parking spaces nearest the back entrance wasn't their top priority. Not so with Superintendent Nancy McGinley's newest choices.

According to a Saturday P&C Watchdog story [McGinley Settles Confusion over School's Handicapped Parking], "For a couple of weeks or so this past month, students and parents entering the Sixth Grade Academy in North Charleston walked directly by cars belonging to the school principal, assistant principal and secretary, all parked atop bright blue spaces designated for the handicapped."

It seems that McGinley-appointed Principal Gail Glears decided early on that names on parking spaces were a necessity--even for the school secretary. She took it upon herself to have signs put up, even though the spaces nearest the door clearly were marked for the handicapped.

That was the first mistake in what Watchdog kindly calls "one mistake after another."Let's hope this fiasco is not indicative of Glears's judgment on other issues!