tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-292706722024-03-14T06:57:52.708-04:00The Newsless CourierKeeping the Charleston Post and Courier honestBabbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152952119296267993noreply@blogger.comBlogger1741125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29270672.post-67718363376503734452019-01-31T18:28:00.000-05:002019-01-31T18:28:12.901-05:00To Our State Legislature and CCSD: Focus on Parents to Improve Education<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Frank Leister's Letter to the Editor, "Parents make the difference for students," should be required reading for all concerned with improving educational outcomes in South Carolina. As he posits below, all the money in the world will not budge those scores without major changes in how schools recruit the help of parents and inspire students to desire to learn.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"A Jan. 28 letter to the editor correctly pointed out that funding for schools has little or no effect on student achievement. More money for South Carolina students over the years did not result in higher achievement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What does have a positive impact on achievement is parental involvement and expectations. For many years I headed a team that worked with school districts and schools on technology and later consulted with schools on the same. I also served on multiple district and school committees and a few at the state level.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">No superintendent thought class size made a difference. All the teachers were more than competent to teach. New buildings or technology made little or no difference.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Parents did make a difference.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When parents expect their child to learn, to behave, do the work and make school their responsibility, achievement soars. For this to occur the family needs stability. That comes from jobs that provide parents the time to review school work, attend parent-teacher meetings, support school functions and discipline their children when behavioral problems surface.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is a long-term fix — maybe as long as a generation or two to develop a solid economy that underpins good jobs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Spending large sums on initiatives that don’t boost achievement simply lowers the standard of living through increased taxes while lulling everyone into complacency for a few years with no improvement until the next alarm goes off to improve education by increasing funding.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What can we do in the interim while building the structure for good families? Bring back recognition and shame.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Recognition should go to students who do well and their parents.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Public shame should descend on parents whose students fail to respect their school, its teachers and staff and under achieve. Yes, that may seem harsh, but it is less harsh than releasing unprepared students into the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The path to success is getting an education, getting a job, getting married and having children, in that order. It all starts with education and that starts with students striving to learn and parents setting expectations and following up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">State Superintendent Molly Spearman wants to change the goal of South Carolina's education system to read more than "Minimally Adequate." We can change all the wording we want, but let's be honest: the system isn't delivering minimally adequate. If it was, there wouldn't be so many complaints.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Reality check: adequate IS adequate. What we're delivering now to too many students, especially the poor and black, is <b>inadequate</b> education. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yes, teachers need more pay. They certainly deserve better working conditions and more respect. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Changing the wording may make us feel good. It will have zero effect on educational outcomes.</span>Babbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152952119296267993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29270672.post-50982029063052125252019-01-17T11:38:00.000-05:002019-01-17T11:38:29.287-05:00Want Diversity in CCSD? Simply Provide Busing for Charter Schools<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"East Cooper Montessori Charter School. . . ranks among the most segregated in the state, with 89 percent white enrollment as of last school year." </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Trying to imagine poor black parents getting their children to I'On for school, it's easy to see how that imbalance happened. Now that the district has done an about-face on allowing charter schools to use CCSD properties, the former Whitesides Elementary building presents less of a challenge, but what if you don't possess a car or if your job interferes with dropping off your child? What if you really don't understand this "Montessori" business anyway. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Charleston County School District is throwing money at this problem: "In a unique arrangement, the district kicks in about $216,000 per year to fund 32 seats in a prekindergarten program for three year olds. As a condition for that funding, East Cooper sets aside 40 percent of its 3- and 4-year-old seats for students from families eligible for SNAP food stamp benefits." The needle has moved from 1 percent to 5 percent black. The sending district is 38 percent black. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">That's too slow. Maybe in a decade the school will satisfy the state's law that "charter schools’ enrollment figures may vary from the racial percentages of their school district or 'targeted student population' by no more than 20 percent."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What a school called Midlands STEM did would help more. Its Board chairman "sent a letter to each of the 120 churches in Fairfield County asking permission to speak to their congregations. Of the seven that responded, six were predominantly black churches. . . He also knew transportation would be an obstacle for some. . . .Midlands STEM uses part of its per-pupil funding from the state to hire a school bus contractor. . . . [The Board chairman] went door-to-door at a largely black apartment complex in the county and now runs a bus there to pick up students."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You don't need much imagination to see that a similar plan would result in more diversity at the East Cooper Montessori Charter School. Time to get busy--and get busing.</span>Babbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152952119296267993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29270672.post-55545897330448670562019-01-16T18:09:00.000-05:002019-01-16T18:09:03.642-05:00#1 Those Pesky Statistics Reveal Charleston County Schools' Woes<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Remember the good old days? When reports put South Carolina at the bottom of some achievement list, we could always count on Mississippi and Alabama to bring up the rear. When it comes to educational achievement, we don't have them to kick around anymore.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What looks even worse for the Charleston County School District is the enormous gap that exists between its best and worst performing schools. The gap is yet another example of unintended consequences: acts done with good intentions that have unexpected bad effects. That pretty well sums up the forty or so years that the consolidated district has existed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Twelve months ago the CCSD Board of Trustees set three goals for the district: "ensuring every student reads by grade 3, developing and retaining talent, and more equitably distributing resources across the district." It offered up a damning statistic: "Our bottom five elementary schools have only 7 percent of their students reading on grade level." </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just pause to think about of the consequences for the middle schools those students will attend. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In response, Superintendent Postlewait began a push for diversity. She must believe that spreading out the 93 percent of students in the bottom five elementary schools who aren't reading on grade level is the way forward. Wouldn't it be simpler to gear up the buses and close those five schools? Then each of the remaining elementary schools would take its fair share. That's what Nancy McGinley did.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Yes, I'm being facetious</i>. Still, it's unclear how diversity will cause those students to read on grade level. On the other hand, Meeting Street Schools' resources and methods seem to be doing just that. We were told that we needed several years of data before concluding that MSS was really working. Does anyone now believe that it isn't? So why hasn't the school board tried to replicate its success? Sour grapes?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Incentive bonus pay to teachers who teach in the failing schools? Principal shuffling? Image consultants? Nibbling around the edges.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's past time to acknowledge that educating the "under-resourced" costs more than educating the "resourced." Attempting to equalize funds spent on each is a fool's errand. Just ask Meeting Street Schools.</span>Babbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152952119296267993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29270672.post-43163333674711020362019-01-15T16:55:00.001-05:002019-01-15T16:55:34.953-05:00#2 Coalition for Kids Dashes Hopes for Radical Change in CCSD<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It sounded so promising. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When Charleston's Coalition for Kids announced its plans last July, its powerful, wealthy, and politically-connected members promised to bring serious change to the Charleston County School Board. Its director Josh Bell promised the purpose of the group was to "enact real, transformative change in the Charleston County School District." Former principal Liz Alston promised to look for "more members who have experience as educators" who are knowledgeable about our schools.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then in the fall, the Coalition endorsed the incumbent Board members running for reelection. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Coalition's early support of using standardized test scores to evaluate teachers should have been a warning that the group formed to (a) support Gerrida Postlewait; and (b) continue business as before. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In hindsight, former Board member Chris Fraser's remarks bear repetition: “'By its very nature we have people in the room that are not cohesive, if you will, with moving the ball forward.'” You see, Fraser wishes the Board to cohere, if you will, to whatever the superintendent desires, with little blow-back. That was his goal when a member not so long ago. Fraser wants people who think like he does. His worst nightmare would be actual experienced educators from the district such as Paul Padron and Jake Rambo, who might know enough about what really goes on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Coalition for Kids stomped all over the opposition with its deep pockets. In fact, more money was spent on re-electing the incumbents than has ever been spent on a CCSD school board election before. I'd like to think that some of those who signed on to its initial mission have become disillusioned, but they're not talking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We can expect this gorilla to throw its weight around during the next round of school board elections as well. How can single candidates ever prevail against this "deep state" money machine?</span>Babbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152952119296267993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29270672.post-55821475899293270462019-01-11T18:00:00.000-05:002019-01-11T18:00:17.240-05:00#3 Time to Ditch the Charleston County School Board?<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Medical University and Joint Base Charleston employ by far the largest number of workers in Charleston County. However, the number employed by the Charleston County School District is only slightly smaller than that of number three, Boeing. Probably the Charleston County School District doesn't have the fourth largest budget in the county, but its spending has a major impact on our economy. That's why the district needs proper supervision, just as the aforementioned already enjoy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Who supervises the superintendent of the Charleston County School District? Who approves the budget proposals of that superintendent? Who has the authority to hire, evaluate, and fire if necessary that superintendent? Here in Charleston County the answer to all those questions is, the elected Board of Trustees, or school board. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's not working. It most likely hasn't worked well since the seventies when the consolidated district was formed. We have more than forty years of failure to address serious deficiencies in local education, the result of myriad decisions made by hundreds of elected school board members. As it exists today, the system rots at the core.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The following have gutted the power of the elected board to supervise effectively:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">no qualifications required to serve</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">no vetting by party, political or otherwise</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">members elected on a countywide basis</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">no remuneration for long hours of work</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">no investigative coverage of candidates by local media</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Maybe this system worked well in the era of the one-room schoolhouse, but in this era of multi-million-dollar football stadiums, it is about as useful as the pot-bellied stove.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Unfortunately, the result is that the rich and powerful carve out their own agendas. Special interests see to it that their interests are met. The superintendent encourages flunkies to run for election. The so-called district representatives don't represent the needs of their districts. When presented with financial budgets, the typical board member who knows nothing about finance or reading a budget must kowtow to the chief financial officer and superintendent. The superintendent is more than happy to view a board that knows nothing about education or handling millions of dollars. The board's yearly evaluation of the superintendent becomes a joke, with the board's handing more and more power to the superintendent. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Who supervises the superintendent? No one. </span></div>
Babbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152952119296267993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29270672.post-84967052993335054972019-01-10T20:08:00.000-05:002019-01-10T20:08:50.370-05:00#4 in CCSD: The Principle of Principal Shuffling<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In an attempt to appear proactive, Superintendent Postlewait chose to shuffle Charleston County School District principals as though they were a deck of cards. She's still feeling the repercussions and ill-will her ill-advised actions stirred up. It was not a tempest in a teapot, nor will it be forgotten. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Maybe Postlewait didn't like the principals she inherited, but changes in principals is yet another reason that teachers leave. She should know that. Once upon a time, a principal would stay in the same school until retirement, earning the love and affection of decades of teachers, parents, and even students. Such was the case with E. Bernard Hester, long-time principal at St. Andrews Parish High School. Every principal has faults, but his strengths produced a cohesive and proud student body. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Imagine if the superintendent had transferred him to, say, the High School of Charleston! <i>You think the French Revolution was bad?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Famously, Jake Rambo refused to leave his post and then quit the district. We don't need to lose good principals like that. In another ridiculous move, Paul Padron, who worked wonders at Haut Gap was kicked upstairs to an administrative position at the Taj, from which he retired. Another great principal lost. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But we grieve for Sanders-Clyde. We could grieve for Sanders-Clyde on so many levels, but enduring five different principals in seven years is just adding insult to injury. Not one was at the helm long enough to provide stability with serious change. When its community spoke up in favor of Rashon Bradley last May as he completed a successful first year, the superintendent rejected their calls for his continued leadership. Instead, Janice Malone, former Dunston principal, took her seat on the merry-go-round. Is it merely coincidence that the Marvin Gethers fiasco took place under her supervision?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What we do know is that each shuffle costs money, about $30,000. We also know that schools need stable leadership to prosper. Evidently, our superintendent either doesn't care or doesn't know. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Apathy or ignorance, take your choice.</span>Babbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152952119296267993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29270672.post-82061461931125057842019-01-09T17:56:00.000-05:002019-01-09T17:56:18.267-05:00# 5 CCSD's Spending Like a Drunken Sailor on Your Dime<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">About this time last year, the Charleston County School Board faced the grim reality that future sales taxes are not enough to cover a rising operating budget. In fact, the Board released these figures: "For 2018-19, we are projecting a $498,000 deficit; in 2019-20, we are projecting a $18.5 million deficit; and in 2020-21, we are projecting a $43.5 million deficit." Those of us with half a brain saw this train wreck coming in 2006 when the funding burden was shifted from property to sales taxes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As I commented last March, "What the residents of Charleston County see are expensive facilities and projected massive football stadiums at tremendous cost. The average Joe figures that the school board is always going to cry wolf and overspend its budget on frills." </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Take the fiasco discovered by Jake Rambo through a FOIA last year. He discovered a hidden item of $65,000 paid to an image consultant in the summer of 2017. You would like to think that, if a school district spends $2.3 million per year on "Strategy and Communications," as the office is named, it wouldn't need outside help. The revelation provoked these words from Andrew HaLevi, a former Teacher of the Year: "The sense of honesty and collaboration that guided previous superintendents has been replaced by confrontation and indifference under Ms. Postlewait. Instead of talking directly to teachers, she hires a marketing firm to communicate. Instead of engaging school-based administrators, she disrupts schools and communities by shuffling principals like branch managers of a bank. Instead of evaluating teachers based on established standards, she uses test scores that were never designed for the purpose of teacher evaluation."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then there's Beth Havens, who, at a cost of $188,000 per year, serves as Eric Mack's daughter's advocate and Superintendent Postlewait's gofer to various departments.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Finally, take the diversity study and its aftermath. First the district threw tens of thousands to a Clemson team to tell the district what it already knew. I defy anyone to tell me what data they produced that showed something surprising. Next, Reos Partners got a cut of the action with an order to facilitate "bringing diverse viewpoints to actionable plans." As I wrote last October, "We pay through the nose for hundreds of qualified personnel in administration. Then we pay again for educational consultants to tell them what to do."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Contrast these expenditures with complaints from Board member Kevin Hollinshed regarding conditions in high poverty schools in North Charleston: "Hollinshead cited the recent rat infestation problem at Garrett Academy of Technology as a long-standing maintenance issue. He also pointed to Deer Park Middle School in North Charleston, which has toilets that frequently clog, no kitchen and a tiny cafeteria which only seats one-sixth of the students at one time. . . . Teachers and principals are afraid to come forward about facilities problems, fearing retribution from CCSD leadership. North Charleston community activist Elvin Speights notes that teachers from Mary Ford Elementary, the former Ron McNair Elementary (which now houses Burns Elementary), Morningside Middle School and C.E. Williams Middle School have all contacted him with reports of rodent infestation at their schools."</span></div>
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Babbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152952119296267993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29270672.post-89605314623958131042019-01-08T19:24:00.001-05:002019-01-08T19:24:49.914-05:00#6 Maintaining an Excellent Teaching Staff in CCSD: R-E-S-P-E-C-T<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The last gasp of boomers retiring from teaching echoes across the land as school districts bewail the lack of good teachers. The recruiting and retention model that worked for almost a century has met its demise, and good riddance to it. Gone are the days when schools required teachers to be single. Also gone are the decades when few other jobs were open to female college graduates. For other reasons the large cadre of females planning to work until marriage has also dried up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We are in a period of adjustment, or, some might say, the winter of our discontent. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What incentives could coax some of our best and brightest to come into the classroom and stay there? As many pundits note, it's not just about the money, but it increasingly is about respect, working conditions, and advancement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As Aretha Franklin might have said, "Give me a little respect when I get into school." </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We must return to principals as "principal teachers," the origin of that title. A principal who has never taught students or has not taught in more than a decade has no concept of how difficult a teacher's job has become. Too many lurk in their offices instead of proactively engaging with both teachers and students. Some see teachers as lesser mortals not bright enough to exercise good judgment, in fact, as simply larger students needing control. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Improving the attitude of parents must also occur, although fixes remain complex. Given contemporary attitudes about money, it's true that teachers will get as much respect as NFL quarterbacks when their salaries are comparable. Not going to happen, ever. Yet how principals respect teachers and how students show respect to teachers must play a major role in resolving the problem. Too often society blames teachers for problems beyond their control, following the lead of superintendents, school boards, and taxpayers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Do students have the right to curse their teachers? If such behavior goes unpunished (and it does), why would any student show respect? Students show the same respect, or lack of it, to their teachers as they do to their parents. Therein lies a societal problem. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Of course, teachers owe respect to their students. Should high school teachers dress in sweatshirts, jeans, and sneakers? All of us stereotype others according to fashion, teenagers most of all. To be treated as professional, teachers must dress so.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In addition, school boards and superintendents need to analyze how to improve teachers' working conditions. As Peter Smyth wrote last January, "Teachers need resources and especially time to build, reflect on, and polish lessons. Good lessons, like good teachers, are created, not born. It’s a hard job, and teachers need support to create and own those lessons. Teachers need meaningful opportunities to build and refine their craft. Teachers need to be allowed to grow in their profession and should be rewarded for that growth."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Last March, we read of attempts to learn why teachers leave the profession: "The SC Education Department committee solicited feedback from educators. . . . Among the 197 responses, the most common complaint, after teacher pay and a lack of classroom support, regarded the demands of assessments and accountability." 'What we know from having taught is not valued, and they’re constantly changing what they think should be taught in the classroom,' said former first-grade teacher Mary Ellen Woodside, who ended her 40-year teaching career at the Charleston County School District in June. 'There's less and less time to do the things that we know matter most at that age.'"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jody Stallings puts it most succinctly: "The problem isn’t necessarily that teachers are underpaid in the main, but that they are woefully underpaid in proportion to the number of daily obstacles they are forced to overcome just to teach a simple lesson. One answer to this might be, of course, to pay them enough money to stay. But if you really want to keep teachers in the classroom, perhaps a better option is to actually address the reasons why they’re leaving in the first place."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Not to put too fine a point on it, the flat salary scale doesn't help retention. While CCSD now brags of increasing pay for new hires, experienced teachers receive little notice and hit a cap after 20 years. This flat scale doesn't exist in the business world for obvious reasons.</span></div>
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Babbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152952119296267993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29270672.post-18306883987865904092019-01-07T17:20:00.000-05:002019-01-07T17:20:10.240-05:00# 7 CCSD Enforces "Wall of Silence" on Sexual and Other Abuse<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Any employee of the Charleston County School District who criticizes the district will lose his or her job. That's why you never hear from current teachers or administrators when problems occur. Only those who sing the praises of the district may speak, or write Letters to the Editor, despite common knowledge of miscreants. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One case in point now faces several lawsuits. CCSD's failure to act on employee Marvin Gethers's behavior will most likely cost the district even more than the $300,000 it paid out surreptitiously to one family at Dunston Elementary last fall. The district's failure to take serious action was only intensified by the failure of the North Charleston Police Department to investigate Gethers's computer in a timely fashion. In other words, when child pornography was discovered on that computer by an IT specialist from the district, a wall of silence descended. After a slap on the wrist, Gethers went on to work in an elementary school, receive a district award as a valuable employee, and get a promotion. </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">And no one spoke up.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After nearly two years, CCSD fired him the day after he was arrested. Meanwhile, he had access to vulnerable children on a daily basis. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Afterward, the district dragged its feet for months on a FOIA request by Channel 5 News. Despite the ranks of administrators at the Taj Mahal, such requests routinely get the "delay, linger, and wait" approach and/or outrageous fees for what should be public information.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then we learned of a sex-crazed teacher in the district. A 17-year-old Burke student was harassed for sex by his female math teacher for months, both in the classroom and out, with the case still dragging on last September. </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">No one knew? Really? It beggars belief.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">How about the Stall High School chorus director arrested in November for "sexual battery" of a former student?<i> Anything else happen while he was employed over six years? Someone knows.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">To round out the issue, the inaction of Liberty Hill's principal when a white student was assaulted at least five times by black students is downright bizarre. Would Chris Haynes have taken action if a black student was harassed by whites? Somehow tapes of reported incidents vanished, as another lawsuit alleges. Haynes kept his job.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, so did Marvin Gethers. </span>Babbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152952119296267993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29270672.post-4928660246401627382019-01-04T22:22:00.000-05:002019-01-04T22:22:54.266-05:00# 8: Education Lottery's Non-Support of Public Schools<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The purpose of South Carolina's Education Lottery is to take money from the poor and give it in the form of scholarships to the middle class.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, actually, that wasn't the stated purpose, but it is the result. Despite the promises that the lottery if approved would go towards public education, the money has been directed elsewhere. Making matters worse, the State Board of Education has adopted a ten-point grading system to make our athletes' grades appear comparable to those of nearby states. </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Another example of the tale wagging the dog. </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The unintended consequences are much worse than that. Now that move has bankrupted the Palmetto Fellows, LIFE and HOPE scholarships. That's what happens when everybody makes A's and B's. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So far our own legislative delegation has ignored the reality that standards for those scholarships must be raised <i>post haste</i>! However, Rep. Neal Collins of Easley has a good proposal. As he cogently points out, the majority of freshmen lose their scholarships after the first year of college. Something major is going wrong, and it appears to be that the standards for scholarships are too low anyway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Collins's proposal won't gain much traction because the middle class will bring pressure to bear, but it should see the light of day: eliminate the Hope and Life scholarships and redirect that money--approximately $250 million--to raising public school teachers' salaries. Palmetto Fellows scholarships, whose recipients have a much better track record, would continue untouched. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If the state must encourage people to gamble, at least the proceeds should benefit K-12 education, the sector that needs it the most. Isn't that what we voted for?</span>Babbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152952119296267993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29270672.post-65673362493388404612019-01-03T18:14:00.002-05:002019-01-03T18:14:52.186-05:00CCSD's Top 10 Stories 2018: # 9--Magnets and Attendance Zones for Sale<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">At Number 9 on our 2018 list of top Charleston County School District stories comes the ever-expanding ability of the rich to purchase seats in CCSD's most desirable magnet schools and attendance zones. When the Board and Superintendent talk about more diversity in those schools, this is not what they have in mind. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In some ways the chickens are coming home to roost. Interpretation of a 1962 attempt to allow white students to opt out of their school districts is the root cause. One elementary magnet affected is Buist Academy on the peninsula, where a child has a better chance of getting into Harvard, Yale, or MIT. Its lottery has been subjected to multiple accusations of manipulation by the rich and well-connected, and its Byzantine eligibility lists suffer the same problem as the Academic Magnet and School of the Arts: students need not live in the county if their parents are rich enough to own property there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you live in Berkeley or Dorchester Counties, or anywhere else in the state, for that matter, you can scour the listings of dilapidated housing or arcane empty lots to buy a seat. The minimum price is $300--<i>peanuts</i>. And it appears that state legislators are on your side. Otherwise, why hasn't the law been changed? Last year 40 residents of Charleston County were cheated out of seats at Academic Magnet and School of the Arts by rich outsiders taking advantage of the law. </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">But it gets worse.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This travesty expanded to buying a school attendance zone last September when parents living on the peninsula gave their child a one-percent share in a Mount Pleasant property they owned so that she could attend Mount Pleasant Academy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Look carefully at the Charleston County schools. The poor remain corralled in failing schools while the rich buy their way out. Past School Boards and superintendents created this problem with the collusion of the well connected. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Why isn't every member of our state legislative delegation attempting to change the law being used, at minimum to raise the cost of the seats so that only millionaires can buy them? <i>Right--they have friends and contributors who might object.</i></span>Babbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152952119296267993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29270672.post-68709448525676255622019-01-02T20:33:00.000-05:002019-01-02T20:33:15.385-05:00Charleston County School District 2018 Review: Top 10 Problems-- #10<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In my arbitrary ranking of 10 problems facing the Charleston County School District during 2018, <b>Safety in Schools</b> comes in at number 10.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just this week, our local rag published an op-ed bewailing the plight of schoolchildren who fear for their safety in school. That's a false narrative created and enriched by repetitive reporting of isolated events. Statistically, those students are much more likely to be injured in an accident on their way to or from school. Given the age of our school buses, maybe we should teach them to fear that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As with the other lemmings encouraged by fearful parents, the Charleston County School District kicked into full gear, that is, grandstanding mode. Yet in <b>January</b> of 2018, students at Gregg Mathis Charter High in a botched robbery shot a man to death on their way to school, then arrived late to class. The threat of bodily harm to CCSD students frequently comes from the student body: was that pistol ever <b>inside </b>Gregg Mathis? Seems likely. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In <b>March</b>, as students across the country walked out of their schools to protest gun violence, three students at Morningside Middle School were arrested for having and handling a gun on campus. One student brought the gun because someone at school a fellow student had stolen his money. No outsiders needed to apply. Schools' reporting of weapons on campus is hazy at best and self-serving at worst. Perhaps our state legislature should put some teeth into reporting standards, starting with separating guns from knives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">By mid-<b>April</b>, egged on by the national "conversation," the Charleston County School Board set aside $2 million of its operating budget for more security in schools. Here's the list of expenditures that will surely make our schools safe: School resource officer in every elementary school: $1,800,000; District search team: $305,000; Emergency planner: $90,503;Security personnel at district office: $50,000; Private relief officers for elementary schools: $238,000; Private security officers to provide security checks at middle and high schools: $238,000; 24-hour security operations center: $167,000. <i>In other words, mostly more bureaucracy. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As grandstanding on gun violence wound down along with the school year, a charitable business offered to install bullet-proof doors to a few classrooms in a free pilot program. Actually, it wasn't a charity, but a business hoping that future Board members would spend up to $40 million to replace every classroom door in the county.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Feel less fearful? </span></i>Babbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152952119296267993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29270672.post-3263336110497402772019-01-01T20:54:00.000-05:002019-01-01T20:56:38.107-05:00CCSD's Top 10 Stories 2018<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In order of increasing importance:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">Police and weapons in schools</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Magnet seats for sale</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Lottery scholarship standards /lottery support of public schools</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Overspending on stadiums / image consultant/ diversity consultant, etc.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Principal shuffling/ lawsuits/</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Teacher recruitment and retention</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Hidden sex abuse at Dunston/ overall transparency</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">School Board's responsibility: supervise Superintendent/ school board pay</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Coalition for Kids slams big bucks</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Damned education statistics</span></li>
</ol>
Babbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152952119296267993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29270672.post-27593668013208899012018-12-15T13:46:00.000-05:002018-12-15T13:46:54.300-05:00Eight of 9 Worst-performing Schools in North Charleston<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"What a great school system we have in Charleston County," think parents in Mt. Pleasant. A great system that has worked to the advantage of the middle and upper classes, that is. If it's so great, why are nine of the Charleston County School District's schools on the naughty list?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Why should the state need to intervene in one of the state's richest districts? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What has happened over the years since the consolidation of once multiple school districts into one countywide district is, in fact, a crime. It's a crime against the poor and black. Gregg Meyers and his ilk have some 'splaining to do, but the upshot remains that the middle class and the powerful in the county guaranteed for their children a decent public education.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The first, and one of the biggest mistakes, was to close the white High School of Charleston and guarantee the existence of historically black Burke High. What idiot thought at the time that the parents of white students would happily sign onto a school that prides itself in its black culture? We can see the result: Burke remains virtually all black and the remaining white students in its attendance district have managed by hook or by crook to opt out. Even the mirage of a thought that Burke's attendance district might be redrawn to reach across the Cooper into Mt. Pleasant and relieve the crowding in its high schools would be enough to start a second revolution. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Burke isn't on the naughty list, however. That ignominy is reserved for the black population of North Charleston, most of whom decades ago lived on the now-gentrified peninsula when CCSD was formed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's time to face reality. The Board of Trustees and Superintendent keep crunching numbers in the vain hope that educating the poor doesn't cost any more than educating the rich, or in edu-speak, the "resourced." Though equal outcomes are unlikely to occur, CCSD administration must break the mold by dedicating more money per pupil to the nine schools in trouble. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This, of course, assumes the correct schools are on the list. Notably absent is Sanders-Clyde. We all know how poorly it has done over the years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Revenues from North Charleston subsidize the rest of the district. Maybe North Charleston needs its own school system; then it could spend more on these failing schools.</span>Babbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152952119296267993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29270672.post-61674325156415245522018-12-13T18:26:00.000-05:002018-12-13T18:26:00.453-05:00A Leaner, Meaner CCSD Payroll Process Took Only Six Years<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Festering payroll issues" should be renamed "festering hourly employee issues," but as usual our local rag doesn't want to put the responsibility where it belongs. Instead, it joyously reports that after acknowledging six years' worth of problems over sloppy time cards with a 2015 budget disaster three years in, the Charleston County School District has finally put some teeth into the enforcement of hourly employees' pay. <i>Duh.</i></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">It's only OPM--that's Other People's Money--so why should we care?</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In reality, we know that auditors first complained about the mess six years ago, but how many years did it take to create the culture that " 'was very lax with clocking in, checking in, and supervisors approving leave and time sheets and everything else,'” according to Board member Todd Garrett? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hourly employees became highly disgruntled when a more effective system took effect last year.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">You mean I have to prove that I actually worked those hours? Shocking!</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"In the week of April 15-21, nearly 800 employees and 800 supervisors failed to properly submit time cards. During the week of Nov. 18-24, those numbers were down to 235 employees and 173 supervisors, according to data provided to the board’s Audit and Finance Committee on Dec. 4."</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">We guarantee that no one has yet lost employment over this disobedience.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Starting this [month], the district is using a five-strike discipline policy to bring those numbers down to zero. The new policy applies to all hourly employees and their supervisors. For the first two offenses, employees or supervisors who fail to comply with time card approval rules will receive written warning letters. On the third offense, the worker’s pay will be withheld until the next two-week pay period has ended. A fourth offense leads to disciplinary action up to a three-day suspension without pay. A fifth offense results in disciplinary action 'up to and including termination.'”</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">We're getting tough, oh so tough, now.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">How about three strikes and you're out? Works in baseball. Five strikes just doesn't have the same ring to it.</span></i>Babbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152952119296267993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29270672.post-17992649861903793212018-12-05T20:46:00.000-05:002018-12-05T20:46:03.137-05:00CCSD Must Expand In Loco Parentis for Struggling Students<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">While<i> in loco parentis</i> in our public schools originally controlled students, if the Charleston County School District wishes to narrow the achievement gap between the races, it must expand its reach to their parents. Resources devoted to what the edublob now calls "under-resourced" students must dwarf those for the "over-resourced." Yet the district must come to grips with the role of parents if more than minimal progress is to be made. Too often, the elephant in the room is ignored.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Why are Superintendent Postlewait and the Charleston County School Board and the <i>Post and Courier</i> ignoring the elephant? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's not politically correct to point out that the child's parents frequently aid and abet the "under-resourcing." </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Let's be realistic for a change. Many poor (in more ways that one!) students have poorly-educated parents, a result of decades of failing schools. Some single parents (not all!) are so distracted by financial problems and poor health that sufficient attention is lacking. What about fathers (and/or) mothers in prison or daily drugged out? Grandparents lacking the energy to keep on top of what the children they must raise are getting into? Neighborhood cultures (and gangs) jeering at achieving students for "acting white." that is, acting middle-class.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We can never erase every factor dragging down the achievement of these children, but the school district must explore avenues regarding parental care that will put them back on the playing field.</span>Babbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152952119296267993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29270672.post-40761647544589499282018-12-01T12:29:00.000-05:002018-12-01T12:29:49.961-05:00Letter Writer Corrects P & C About SC "Segregated" Schools<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This Letter to the Editor was from someone who understands the state's history, unlike the reporters who wrote the education series appearing last month.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Education series</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Nov 25, 2018</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"I have read the first two stories in your series on education shortfalls in South Carolina. The reporting about the need to educate all South Carolinians so they are employable in today’s workforce and/or able to enroll in colleges or technical schools is spot-on. To me, this means improving the quality and equality of education throughout the state and demanding that students apply themselves. A great goal."</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Amen.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"That you suggest, in the second installment, that blacks are set up to fail because they do not have white students among them is not only racially demeaning and elitist but classically racist."</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Yet is generally the view of white liberals from off.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"There are areas of the state that are majority black, as I suspect you know, and labeling this as segregation is questionable. Laying guilt on white students for this long-standing state of affairs that will probably not change soon is disingenuous and ineffectual."</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">But makes the reporters feel superior.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"What <i>The Post and Courier</i> needs to do is offer more practical approaches that emphasize improving education and equality with emphasis on student achievement."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Chuck Freas</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Summerville</span>Babbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152952119296267993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29270672.post-46369379206218636902018-11-30T17:34:00.000-05:002018-11-30T17:34:45.893-05:00Sex, Lies, and Video in the Charleston County School District<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>More missing video?</i> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We now have a third case of the Charleston County School District's failure to hand over video of a disputed incident. This time it's a five-year-old being mistakenly picked up by a Lyft driver last April at Springfield Elementary in West Ashley. The district is being sued by the child's mother. The video was requested three days after the incident; the CCSD employee responsible for chaperoning the child has mysteriously left district employ.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"This case follows other incidents involving the school district and FOIA requests."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"When WCSC-TV requested emails earlier this year relating to a $300,000 settlement involving a district employee accused of child molestation, the district was accused of not meeting FOIA deadlines and charging excessive fees for public documents."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The "sex" part? After a police investigation the Stall High School chorus director was arrested at the Taj Mahal after being accused of "sexual battery" of an 18-year-old former student. He's worked in the district for six years.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Transparency, thy name is CCSD.</span></i>Babbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152952119296267993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29270672.post-5108619220292302002018-11-30T17:09:00.000-05:002018-11-30T17:09:00.443-05:00SC School Report Cards "A Tale Told By an Idiot"<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">OK, so Macbeth was a bit soured on life when he said those words, but it's about time for SC voters to be soured on school and district report cards. This latest fiasco is but a case in point.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Are we tired yet of bureaucrats switching tests from year to year so that one set of tests is never comparable with another? Now we have another anomaly to gripe about: who is the idiot who designed these results? We know the name of the company, but where is the goat, because the SC Education Department needs one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"In Charleston County, the state’s second-largest district, Executive Director of Assessment and Evaluation Buffy Roberts said some of the district’s best-performing schools were dinged on their report cards because their average performance, as measured by state tests, improved by a smaller amount than the state average."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“'The report card’s method of computing progress is slightly misleading because it measures if the school on average grew more or less than the state average, based on the state’s grade-level tests, rather than measuring the amount of academic progress that students actually made individually,' Roberts said." <i>Slightly?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Buist Academy, a K-8 magnet school whose admissions process is more selective than Harvard’s, earned an overall rating of Average this year. Its rating for academic achievement was Excellent, but its overall score was dragged down by an Unsatisfactory rating for student progress."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In other words, if you're at the top, the amount of progress you can make pales in comparison to a school at the bottom. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The test designer is mathematically illiterate.</span>Babbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152952119296267993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29270672.post-33040337593722319402018-11-29T21:03:00.000-05:002018-11-29T21:03:38.899-05:00Charleston County School District Faces Questions Over "Popular" Auditor<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Funny, the news that doesn't get reported in our local newsrag. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">While the exposes and trials of Brantley Thomas have dragged on, it forgot to mention that the same auditor that caused the Berkeley County School District so much woe was also employed by the Charleston County School District.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In a lawsuit brought against Greene Finney LLC, the Berkeley County School District also revealed that this "popular" auditor did the books for both CCSD and Dorchester District 2 after helpful recommendations by--you guessed it--one Brantley Thomas. The firm was founded in 1996 and "helped" Thomas in his nefarious activities beginning in 200l, according to the lawsuit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Who hired this auditor for CCSD? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">How many years did this firm cook the books for the Taj Mahal?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The answers will be interesting to all.</span>Babbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152952119296267993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29270672.post-91703547512608316682018-11-28T17:40:00.000-05:002018-11-28T17:40:01.435-05:00Demise of Prestige Prep While CCSD's Fraser Building Sits Empty<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Did the Charleston County School District set up Prestige Prep Academy for deliberate failure? That's what you should be asking yourself about the latest failing charter school sponsored by CCSD.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Despite our local fish wrapper's long article on its woes, nowhere does the reporter mention the school's failure to obtain a viable school building in the district. Where the school now meets, traffic is unbearable and facilities not stellar. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yet day after day, week after week, month after month, and year after year the Fraser school building sits rotting away, draining district resources while providing no income.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">How long, oh Lord, how long?</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Why? Why shouldn't a district-sponsored public charter school rent a public school building paid for by the taxpayers? Prestige was doomed when it couldn't find a better facility. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The foregoing reveals how CCSD cares for its facilities. It must be waiting for the right buyer to build another hotel on the property. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">While we're on the subject, when is the district going to provide busing for its public charter schools? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We're all about fairness and diversity, aren't we? <i>Aren't we?</i></span>Babbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152952119296267993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29270672.post-48376629120079507422018-11-16T17:49:00.000-05:002018-11-16T17:49:37.982-05:00Liberty Hill Student Lawsuit Should Include Firing Its Principal in Racist Incidents<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Why does Liberty Hill principal Chris Haynes still have his job? Does he smooze with the right people? Is he related to Mr. Big? Does he have the "goods" on the Charleston County Superintendent? Does he know where the bodies are buried?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We must rack our brains at this point to arrive at a scenario that would cause his removal. Certainly, two years of chaos at Liberty Hill wasn't enough. Ignoring district guidelines for keeping video isn't either. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Here's the story from our local rag. There's one salient fact that goes unreported, although Channel 5 was courageous enough to broadcast it: the boy being attacked and called racial slurs was white; all of the attackers were black.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"After students allegedly assaulted a boy five times over two months at his school and on the bus, the boy’s parents had tenough. They hired a lawyer who demanded that the Charleston County School District hand over surveillance videos of what happened.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Nine months later, the school district says it doesn’t have the footage. The boy’s mother is suing, claiming that the district deliberately destroyed evidence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"School district policy ECAA says that a school can delete surveillance video footage after 10 days unless “an incident is reported or a request is made to view or copy a video.” <b>Police reports were filed in four of the five cases involving the boy.</b> The lawsuit, filed Oct. 2 in Charleston County Court of Common Pleas, claims the district broke its own policy as well as the state’s open-records law.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"According to the attorney, Mark Peper, the student is a 12-year-old boy who was assigned to Liberty Hill Academy in North Charleston in December 2017. Liberty Hill is an alternative public school that serves partly as a last-chance reform school for students with serious disciplinary issues. Another part of the school serves special-needs children in first through eighth grade.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"According to police reports, a student allegedly hit the boy with a shoe on Dec. 13, 2017. Five days later, the same student allegedly got in a fight with the boy and threatened to kill him and his mother.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Another student punched the boy in the face on Jan. 11 in a hallway, according to a police report. On Jan. 16, several students admitted to hitting him, including one who confessed to hitting him with a belt, according to school records provided by Peper. Two days later, a police report says a student punched the boy three times.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"On Jan. 23, the family’s lawyer sent the district a letter demanding that it preserve any records from the incidents, including surveillance footage. Like many schools, Liberty Hill has surveillance cameras, and district emails indicate that the bus also had a camera. On May 10, Peper submitted a Freedom of Information request for the records and footage. On Sept. 20, a district official wrote back: “Too much time had elapsed between your request and the date. Unfortanently (sic), there is no video for this matter.”</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">From the request on January 23 until the response on September 20? Yes, I'd say that too much time elapsed!</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Last month, Circuit Judge Michael Nettles ruled that the district was “grossly negligent” in failing to preserve the videos. “I don’t know whether or not they can be recovered in some way or fashion, but I’m gonna order that y’all do whatever is necessary to try to recover any videos that might have been destroyed,” he said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"The lawsuit sheds light on a dark period at a school that ex-teachers described as dangerous and anarchic over the last two school years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Shortly before the student in the lawsuit started at Liberty Hill, Principal Christopher Haynes sent an email to teachers saying that he was “closing without action” a backlog of 159 student discipline referrals. Teachers were outraged and said they felt unsupported. Haynes made some changes at the school this fall, including hiring a behavior interventionist and revising the system for “restoring” students back to their home schools."</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Tell me again why Haynes wasn't removed as principal, please.</span></i>Babbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152952119296267993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29270672.post-18427279033328625112018-11-15T17:12:00.000-05:002018-11-15T17:12:56.672-05:00FOIA Meets CCSD's Office of Delay, Linger, and Wait<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Taj Mahal treats FOIA as its worst enemy. Despite the ranks of bureaucrats employed at the Charleston County School District's administrative offices, somehow responding to FOIA requests in a transparent and timely manner falls lowest on the agenda.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Take, for example, the outrageous situations detailed below:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"The Charleston School District needs to come clean about a four-year-old scandal in which an employee suspected of accessing child pornography was later accused of molesting two students. The employee has since died, and the school district paid $300,000 to settle a lawsuit filed on behalf of an 11-year-old student.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"But for months, the district has effectively stonewalled a local television station’s Freedom of Information Act request for emails related to the scandal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Despite changes made to South Carolina’s FOIA to make access to public documents easier and more affordable, the district has failed to meet deadlines for responding to WCSC-TV’s requests and set preposterously high fees for culling and redacting the emails.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Channel 5 was told its initial request for district emails involving the late Marvin Gethers would cost the station about $11,220, prompting the station to narrow its request to only emails to and from the principal during a few months in 2014 and 2016. That dropped the price to $2,485 — still a steep price to pay for public information the district presumably would have already culled, given the investigation and lawsuit. The station has since further narrowed its request.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Under the FOIA, “reasonable fees cannot exceed the cost of search, retrieval and redaction of records by the lowest-paid employee capable of the job.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"By law, the district has 20 business days to acknowledge request, then 35 days to produce the records. The district’s general counsel, Natalie Ham, said each request restarts the clock. She said she was unsure about the status of the latest request but would check on it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"What’s most troubling isn’t that the district is having trouble complying with the law in specific cases, but rather that it appears to have trouble in complying with FOIA requests in general.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"In a related matter, the district has balked at turning over a list of legal settlements over the past the five years, according to WCSC-TV. The request was filed March 30. Finally, after threatening legal action against the district, the station recently received a letter from Ms. Ham apologizing for delays and promising the information in 10 business days, or by Nov. 8.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Either the district isn’t equipped to handle what appear to be relatively simple FOIA requests, or it hasn’t prioritized fulfilling the requests in a timely manner. Regardless, the district must improve its compliance with the law. If Ms. Ham’s office is overwhelmed with requests, the district should provide her with additional resources.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Separately, the district also has been under fire for erasing video that allegedly shows a boy being beaten up at school. Attorneys for the youth are now suing the district over what a judge called “grossly negligent” behavior.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"The Freedom of Information Act doesn’t exist to embarrass public institutions, but is designed to provide transparency and accountability to the public. The district must do a better job on both counts.?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Transparent and accountable? <i> Ha ha ha ha ha.</i></span>Babbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152952119296267993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29270672.post-32414143380000873672018-11-14T13:04:00.000-05:002018-11-14T13:04:18.654-05:00CCSD School Buses Took Voters to the Polls<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Observers reported seeing Charleston County School District buses unloading full contingents of voters at a polling place on Johns Island on election day. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Was </span>CCSD<span style="font-size: large;"> aware that its buses were being used?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If so, how much was paid to the district for using the buses?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And, who paid it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And, since district headquarters had a preferred slate of candidates in this election, were voters told whom to vote for in the school board elections?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The answers should be revealing.</span>Babbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152952119296267993noreply@blogger.com0