The administration and boards of trustees of CCSD have brought us to this sorry place over many decades of problems. No one has any reason to believe that somehow Charleston County lacks the resources that other districts have to be successful. Perhaps we go to the top of the list in our excellent facilities, but we go to the bottom in academics.
The upcoming school board election is another chance to fix the problem by electing trustees that actually know how the district works and can hold administration accountable.
Principals at Stall and Greg Mathis have their hands full, but tweaking the lessons taught by teachers, as one suggests, is not the answer. Greg Mathis is a charter school; therefore, why should its charter be renewed if it is failing? Stall has a beautiful new state-of-the-art building. Now, if Superintendent McGinley allows its administrators and teachers to use experience and common sense to address its problems, perhaps they will arrive at solutions that state "experts" couldn't possibly imagine. One might be to throw out edublob thinking.
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The elementary and middle schools that feed grossly unprepared students into these high schools are a major part of the problem. The district needs to rectify that as well. Pushing it along in the pipeline so the problem becomes someone else's is still going on. Even if the district claims they are making progress, the students are still loosing big time.
I'm betting the Stall principal realizes now that Wando and traditional North Charleston-area high schools are worlds apart. Send Lucy Beckham to Stall. If she is the best in the nation, that makes the most sense. If she fails, then...
Send Lucy to Stall - that is too funny. She could become Kandrac II
I agree with sending Lucy Beckham to Stall. It makes sense.
Send Judith Peterson. Let's find out if it's really the principal that makes these schools great or not. In some cases it may be true, but with Wando and AMHS, they are easy. Those schools could run on autopilot.
Administrators and teachers who work in Mt.Pleasant schools don't have a clue about how it is to teach in most of the North Charleston area schools. I agree that award-winning administrators and teachers there should be transferred to the lower-performing schools so they can get a taste of what it is like in the "real world". Who knows? They "may" be able to help turn things around. It would be worth a try.
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