Justice delayed is justice denied, as the Federal Office of Civil Rights sits on the complaint filed for Charleston County School District's closing of five schools in 2009. More than a thousand elementary and middle-school students were uprooted from their neighborhood schools while Superintendent McGinley promised them a better education.
McGinley also promised to follow through to see that the end justified the means; however, she isn't nearly as interested in providing that evidence as she is in showing that, as a result of moving these students, a smaller percentage of students district-wide are attending "failing" schools.
You see, making the statistic look good was the goal, not better education for these students. If McGinley really had the interests of these students at heart, she would be brimming over with tales of how their lives have been improved.
Once again, the superintendent has been rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Don't they look attractive on her pie chart?
Thursday, May 02, 2013
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This is McGinley's hallmark. Promise anything, sustain nothing and allow no independent verification. Now, how's that for an education philosophy? It certainly isn't based on any accepted rules of scholarship.
This is a damning reflection on the education paper mills that gave this person (and others like her) the title of "Doctor".
My eye!
It's the same thing that was going on in the push to convert Sanders-Clyde to a standalone middle school
Get S-C Elementary and Burke Middle off the books, and open a new middle school - one that will magically provide a better middle-school education to Peninsula kids. And the S-C elementary school students? How exactly will they benefit?
Playing a shell game with students does not equal improving education.
When will a majority on school board get it? Nancy McGinley has never turned around and sustained the progress of a single failing school, at least not without removing the very students she has consistently failed. When she moves students from failing schools in the name of improving their chances, she consistently fails to account for their progress because she knows there will be none.
The only thing this superintendent has done consistently has been to be dishonest. She says little, if anything, that is believable. The downtown middle school proposal to close Burke Middle and Sanders-Clyde Elementary (two more failing schools) in order to create a “new” middle school in the “old” Sanders-Clyde is just one more example of her dependency on a bait and switch model of school improvement. And for doing things like this for 7 years, the school board continues to extend her contract, gives her regular raises and favorable annual evaluations.
She cherry picks her statistics while the school board fails to check the work. She needs to go. When she does go, we need to make sure the next superintendent won’t just repeat the scam. – Henry Copeland
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