If there is one thing that makes Brian Hicks see red , it's an uppity woman. In particular, an uppity woman on the CCSD Board of Trustees. Who could disagree?
After all, Elizabeth Kandrac had the insolence to sue the Charleston County School District over racist treatment she received as a teacher in the district! Other teachers would have faded away quietly because they didn't have the money to sue. Then Kandrac had the temerity to accept the monetary damages when she won the case (by trickery, no doubt). Why, she should have immediately turned the cash over to the superintendent "for the children."
How infuriating!
Then, Kandrac, assuming the role of uppity ex-teacher, ran for a North Charleston seat on the CCSD Board of Trustees. Talk about adding insult to injury! Ex-teachers should know their place, after all, and these Board seats are the honorary purview of the rich, not the hoi polloi! Teachers don't know any more about education than members of the Chamber of Commerce!
It only goes to show, as I'm sure Hicks would agree, just how ignorant and red-necked the residents of Charleston County are, given that Kandrac was actually elected to that seat. Why, she wasn't even endorsed by the Democratic Party!
Suitable to her low status, Kandrac should have followed the more experienced members of the Board and learned to "bootlick, be seen and not heard" or, even better, "bootlick, be not seen and not heard," since they know that the Board trustees are mere figureheads serving in an honorary capacity. Ask Ann Oplinger or Toya Hampton-Green.
This misunderstanding on Kandrac's part led to her ridiculous attempts to attend as many training sessions and meetings as possible to educate herself on how school boards (and districts) should run. Why does she think trustees should have opinions? Why doesn't she understand that what the administration of the district says doesn't need challenges?
Hicks must be greatly relieved that his headache named Kandrac isn't running again.
But wait. . .
Has he noticed Elizabeth Moffly (see, they even share the same name!), who's developing another case of not knowing her place in the hierarchy?
Stay tuned.
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
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Wow! Ms. Kandrac has spent almost as much money educating herself on board issues as McGinley has spent on increasing the size of her public relations staff.
Going on a TAXPAYER trip after attending final meeting is wrong..period. Have been an EK supporter but this is NOT necessary, fiscally responsible, etc. very disappointing
What about the $25,000 bonus the rubber stamp board gave McGinley after McGinley told the board they had to freeze teacher pay for the third year? Kandrac didn't go along with that one. Or the contact extensions and raises for new administrative hires when McGinley said they had to let the substitute teachers go? Kandrac voted against that bad idea too. But not Oplinger and Green who did as they were told. They rubber stamped the superintendent. Green and Oplinger blew off most training sessions and many meetings. They took the least pay, but look what we got for it. They are a couple of sycophants. Kandrac is forever the student. At least give her credit of learning as much as she can right up until the end. Don't forget she will also be representing Charleston at this state conference. She isn't just taking someting away. She'll be the only representative of the board who is going. I'll bet she still reports back what she learns. That's more than Oplinger and Green ever did. That's five hundred dollars better spent than any of the new administrative positions McGinley created since July.
So what's up with the latest special interest group, a money magnet super PAC no less? Where did Ginny Deerin's slate of school board candidates send their kids to school? I think we should have had enough of school board candidate slates by now. The last 12 years gave us what we have now. A-Team, B-Team, the Chamber's Blue Ribbon Slate, now Ginny Deerin's CWTFGS, they are all about controling the message, not delivering results. None of the previous slates did anything to improve the schools or the board.
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