From one failing school to another: Principal Benton of Burke High School will become interim principal of North Charleston High for the next year only while a nationwide search for the perfect principal occurs.
How many principals has North Charleston High School endured in the last six years?
Maybe the "principal shuffle" is part of the problem. Or should I say the superintendent, since she's the one shuffling them?
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What an insult! Move one failing principal out of the failing school he was brought in to turn around 5 years before. He steps aside so CCSD can apply for another grant to fix the same school. Ship him to another failing school. Then tell everyone he's the new messiah who has come to turn that school around...oh, just for 2 years, until he can retire again and go back to NC where he will collect checks from both states' retirement systems. What a scam!
Marvin was right. Only instead of a Blue Ribbon Committe to look into this, why not a forensic audit or SLED?
Isn't Juanita Middleton a former Burke Administration "alumnus," too? And is she destined to become a Principal Specialist? That's about $100K a year, isn't it?
Maybe Dr. McGinley is switching herself to Burke as part of the carousel?
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
Yes to both questions.
Yes, Juanita Middleton was at Burke as a principal coach and to initiate the AP Academy at Burke...you know, the AP program which didn't attract enough students and didn't have anyone pass an AP exam.
Yes, this is insane.
10:28 pm, brilliant quote from Dr. Winbush!
PS, They have had 10 principals in 11 years, Ms. Middleton being the only one longer than one....
Actually, Mr. Colwell was Principal for two full years, after serving as an interim for 2-3 months. And I think Mr. Peake also was there for two full years. Roy Holloway served between them (for less than a year). After Mr. Colwell departed, it became a true revolving door. It's a hard job with little support from the district. Peake and Colwell always were fighting with the district to leave them alone and give their teachers a chance to turn things around. To my knowledge, the only times the school report card showed any positive movement was the absoulte/improvement ratings when Mr. Peake was there his second year and the improvement rating for Mr. Colwell's second year at the school. EOC scores in Algebra and English I showed increases, too. After Mr. Colwell departed, the ratings have been solidly abysmal.
According to published reports, Mr. Benton and Ms. Middleton each have a base salary of about $94,000. That doesn't include any benefits or bonuses paid on top of their base pay.
With so many revolving-door principals, who actually runs the school? Someone with continuity must know where the key to the front door is kept.
That would be a day porter, but thanks to the wisdom of 75 Calhoun Street, they are being fired, too. It is a shame we can't keep the day porters and fire a few senior administrators instead.
Let's see here,maybe Windy-bush could go to NCHS and "lead" it into "at-risk" like he did Baptist Hill last year. Then he could attack Stall, which by the way went to the highest level of improvement possible last year.
Everyone knows NJM hired him because of his ethnicity;how is that working out Nancy? Elliott, what do you think? Hey Jimmy, don't take this personally! Big man, you got pawned off and she played you like a fiddle; wonder how much sleep ya'll are gettin???
If this wasn't so damn sad for kids it would make for one helluva reality series that would make everyone tune in for the next moronic move.
Make crap out of Maria GJ all you want, but she cared about kids and made stands against the racism and bigotry that continue to be the pulse of this entire system.
Obviously our community loves misery. Two of our high schools in North Charleston made significant improvements in spite of a seriously flawed system and yet no kudos. Instead, more bs and more bs, etc,
What the hell?
Hats off to the teachers at Stall and North Charleston who go to school everyday and work miracles with kids. Is it their job? Damn right it is and they are standing up to the plate. Meanwhile, the friggin circus downtown continues to add rings.
I wonder if Bill Lewis takes out bids on those rings?
Hey Nancy.....
How is Elliott ever gonna come up with a speech for you to congratulate Stall on achieving the highest level of improvement possible when you just sent your whippin-boy Winbush in to discredit them and tell them how horrible they were? Well, maybe you saved the speech from the opening of the new school. Holy sheet girl, this has just gots ta get confusin for ya now?
Anonymous 12:41
Thank you for the compliment. Many of us care deeply about our schools.
The success of North Charleston's neighborhood schools is just as important to East Cooper and Downtown. We have a common enemy. Playing one school off another, or dividing interests along geographic lines only allows the district people to divide the audience. They can then duck the tough questions. When was the last time McGinley took questions from the audience? Good schools in the North Area can only mean less pressure from transfers to schools in other areas. The cost of not making that happen is greater than we are being told. Closing schools and shipping the students somewhere else has a much higher price than what Winbush or McGinley are telling us.
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