Cheaters can breathe a sigh of relief. Thanks to several cowards on the school board, its attendance policies, such as they are, will continue to be treated like the "third rail" of CCSD politics. That's why discussion of Buist disappeared from the agenda of Monday night's CCSD school board meeting. [See Board Delays Decision on Buist Attendance.] This time there was no "ohmygoshIforgot" moment but bald-faced prevarication on the reason for its non-appearance.Remember the Board's famous "the minority rules" rule: it takes four members to put an item on the agenda but only one to take it off. Don't you wonder who that was? The most appealing aspect of this rule (to cowards) is that voters never find out who did it, but we can "round up the usual suspects." It's probably a good thing for Hillery Douglas that he was interviewed afterwards by phone when he said that the Board wanted "to ensure everyone has a shot at being treated fairly." I'm sure he couldn't have kept a straight face in public.
Here's the skinny: it's an election year. The Board is going to putz around on Buist until it is too late to deal with this year's students. Then it will take up the policy seriously AFTER THE ELECTION.
If Gregg Meyers's toadies win, expect District 20 to be shafted again. At the very least, all cheaters now at Buist will be grandfathered.
Well, there's always the lawsuit. (Does anyone wonder why they keep happening?)
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As always, I couldn't have said it better myself.
Thank you.
I don't understand these people who seem to think Nancy McGinley is a good superintendent. From what I've seen so far she may be much worse than the last one. She says she is for one thing while she actively works to do something else. This is getting expensive. It seems like too many public school administrators are trained to do this. It does nothing for increasing public trust.
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