Who is going to stand up and take responsibility for the revolving-door principals at Sanders-Clyde in the past few years?
Who will admit that merely announcing a partial-magnet program to entice parents whose children go elsewhere to transfer to the school was a stupid idea?
What white family would pretend that Jonathan Green's mural at the school contains a single white child?
Does the P & C's reporter even know of the scandal of false test scores that several years ago should have sent its acclaimed principal to jail instead of another state?
Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.
We grieve for the parents and children at Sanders-Clyde who have had their hopes raised again and again.
"But a new principal with a new vision says he's made strides in his first year — and some members of the Sanders-Clyde community believe he can right the ship, if he's able to stay. And if he stays and succeeds, his example could help similar schools thrive."
"Roshon Bradley, Sanders-Clyde's fifth principal in seven years, knew the odds before he took the job in the spring of 2017. He previously worked for almost 16 years in the schools of Rochester, N.Y., a place with similar levels of poverty to Sanders-Clyde's attendance zone."
No one can turn around a failing school in one year or even two. Such endemic problems do not disappear overnight. CCSD has a choice: either it keeps Bradley on for at least two more years, or it turns over the whole school to an outside entity such as Meeting Street Schools.
It's that simple.
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