tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post4461235256529912216..comments2023-10-23T09:23:22.051-04:00Comments on Your Schools: CMS school board race starts todayUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-13272897592354815472013-07-08T10:28:15.491-04:002013-07-08T10:28:15.491-04:00Mecklenburg has reached the tipping point and dist...Mecklenburg has reached the tipping point and districts are set up to ensure minorities rule CMS. Don't expect it to improve with social engineering now CMS BOE priority.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-25867718097307396142013-07-07T11:33:29.636-04:002013-07-07T11:33:29.636-04:00These school board members and potential candidate...These school board members and potential candidates need to remember their places. Things like making teachers change grades because of pushy parents is unethical. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-62764123247113024162013-07-05T22:19:26.387-04:002013-07-05T22:19:26.387-04:00CMS has no business trying to "create better ...CMS has no business trying to "create better neighborhoods".<br /><br />They need to focus on creating a better public education product.<br /><br />Public school systems already tried and failed to gerrymander neighborhoods. The result was White Flight.Wiley Coyotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16966764080565903720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-26296708718035488442013-07-05T13:34:35.964-04:002013-07-05T13:34:35.964-04:00.
THREE FACTORS A BOARD CANDIDATE SHOULD CONSIDER.....<br />THREE FACTORS A BOARD CANDIDATE SHOULD CONSIDER.<br /><br />It is difficult to tell what skills a School Board member should have. But given the lack of funding combined with the explosive growth of below-middleclass-incomed-families, it is going to be the ability to say “NO” to a whole lot of special interests. And do it in a way that doesn’t split the community.<br /><br />The next School Board is going to have to make a lot of academic decisions in the blind if it uses all the new messed-up reporting systems and instructional methods that NCDPI has burdened the LEAs with. The most challenging will be that their superintendent wants to continue with the growth model while the state will not. That will make those trip to Raleigh uncomfortable. <br /><br />The high cost of transportation will not go away. Families will have to let go of the idea that if they can’t escape the poverty of their neighborhoods, they can at least send their children out of them for ten hours a day. New Board members must work with the City and County to create better neighborhoods. It is something that has never been done.<br /><br />ONE UNAVOIDABLE WATERSHED MOMENT.<br />.<br />The six members elected this November will have to decide if CMS will expand or mothball the L.I.F.T experiment. This is unpredictable. L.I.F.T hasn’t reported any achievement data. Next year will be the first using the year-round model (two styles in four schools). There isn’t a lick of confirmed information that will make it a campaign issue. But at the end of these six’s third year they will have to go thumbs up or down.<br /><br />Bolyn McClung<br />Pineville, NC<br />.BolynMcClunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02938579006144446381noreply@blogger.com