Sunday, June 05, 2011
Warning: CCSD's McGinley Puff Piece Monday
You may want to skip reading the P&C with breakfast Monday. Courrege has planned a McGinley profile explaining how the superintendent wisely makes her decisions.
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No matter how the P&C is used to spin McGinley's story, the superintendent and her team are out of touch, disconnected and have no real interest in what is good for anyone but themselves. Charleston's educational system is broken and the people responsible for fixing it have failed miserably. Holding up a handful of success stories cannot offset the weight of their failures. The P&C is playing host to a bread circus while the children of Charleston starve educationally. The conflicts between a sea of money pouring into the building programs while teachers and the classrooms continue to be cut is a scandalous expose begging to be reported. McGinley is a master of spin and the P&C is notoriously complacent in obliging her.
Has any article ever shown the growth (albeit small steps growth) made by Stall High School (and from what I hear, North Charleston High School)?
Does the public know that both schools had significant improvement scores on their report cards?
So why did McGinley attempt to close and merge the two North Area high schools without bothering to get community input? It seems the rumors are correct. Someone close to the administration reported her as saying recently that there are no neighborhoods in North Charleston. She is totally insensitive to real community participation.
And, why--pray tell--was it totally ignored that while Stall went from "At Risk" in their Improvement rating last year to "Excellent" under Dan Conner's leadership (and has continued to improve this year) that Baptist Hill (under the leadership of Dr. Winbush--who was seen pushing for the merger of Stall and NCHS) saw an Improvement Rating that declined from "Excellent" to "At Risk"? Seems nobody's examining that!
These kinds of discrepancies and inconsistencies in McGinley's leadership should be covered in a more in depth report.
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