What a fiasco!
No fault accrues to these students.
Is this problem going to be another swept under the rug with no one taking responsibility? If so, that lack of ownership will continue to weaken community support for the district.
Now for the questions.
Who instituted the "one-year pilot program for 2014-2015" and why? What Dorchester District 2 uses for exemptions is irrelevant here.
Not only do we not know who did it, but evidently the Board never voted for it!
Board member Kate Darby said she would like to discuss personnel issues related to the exam exemption policy in the future.
“Personally I think we need to address that issue, but we can do that later and get information on that issue,” Darby said.
Board members Coats and Chris Staubes said the board never voted in the first place for the pilot program that set the minimum at 85 for seniors. Coats said she had scoured meeting minutes from past years looking for any discussion of the matter. “I cannot find anywhere that that policy was discussed with this board,” Coats said.
How did a one-year policy end up in some of this year's handbooks? That's an easy one. The handbook was simply copied from the previous year with corrections approved by the principal.
That brings up two more questions.
Why did CCSD not have copies of every high school handbook?
Why did some handbooks use the correct grade of 93?
Perhaps Cindy Bohn Coats inadvertently let the cat out of the bag when she said, "We are very glad that we have administrators who now understand the need to cross T's, dot I's, do it the right way so that people are not inadvertently affected by these kinds of issues."
"Now," Cindy?
Kudos to Superintendent Postlewait for suggesting that the original exemption policy of 93 makes sense.
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The Problem is due to the fact that many Principals have and continue to operate their school buildings like it is separate and apart from Charleston County School District, making up policy and procedures at will and having separate handbooks to say the least. To that end, the surprise (hopefully) will come after the forensic audit that Principals were rewarded (for what) and received raises ranging up to 30,000 for this school year. Verify this and you will be surprised to dismay.
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