Authority rules with an iron hand. Elected oversight committee members bend to will of unelected leader. Those who report problems or abuse of any type face inevitable retaliation. The reputations of those who ask unapproved questions are smeared. The organization approves one ephemeral five-year plan after another with little accountability for progress.
We thought we'd left such institutions behind after the Wall came down in 1989, but expensive billboards advertising "Vision 2016," devoid of further content that might legitimize their use, remind us that the discredited Soviet model is alive and well in the Charleston County School District.
Wednesday, June 06, 2012
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Who is paying for all these published materials and ads? The annual full color insert in the paper is showing up in the budget at a cost of $70,000. Who is paying for the symposium going on at SOA or the SC School Plant Management Association that was at Zucker Middle School earlier this week? When did CCSD become a convention and visitors bureau? Why so many CCSD employees working these conventions? CCSD's department of communications, of course, is putting on the show which is all about improving the image of our great leader. We should use our school money more wisely. Eletronic billboards are just the beginning.
All great questions. The billboards were paid by donors. They cost Charleston County taxpayers nothing. The symposium was funded by money raised at the Evening with the Stars gala. Again, nothing on taxpayers. And could you tell me more about this alleged $70,000 annual insert in the paper? I don't think it exists.
Most people think it's a good thing when businesses support students and teachers.
And it sounds closer to capitalism than communism, but then you'd lose the juicy blog headline.
Can anyone supply an accounting of the costs for the ad campaign and a list of donors? It's one thing to say it was donated and quite another to document it. Propaganda is still propaganda, regardless of the political or economic system that allows it. The difference is that in a free society we should all have the right to know who is promoting it.
Do these private business owners know their contributions are being used for billboards? Somehow, I doubt it!
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