Posted on 04/30/2011 12:57:52 PM PDT by BobNative
In his five-page response to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools dated April 28, Superintendent Fred Sanderson states he has “genuine concerns” about the Cobb Board of Education’s ability to “govern effectively.”
Sanderson’s letter, which was obtained by the Journal through an Open Records Request, addressed allegations about the school board’s ethics and leadership. The allegations against the board were sent in a letter addressed to Sanderson by Mike Bryans, the state director of AdvancED and SACS, on March 29. Sanderson had 30 days to respond to the accreditation agency.
On the lightning-rod issue of newly elected board members voting to revert back to a more traditional school calendar, Sanderson wrote, “the process of approving a system calendar in February 2011 was legal, but did not represent the spirit of effective governance. … The newly elected board members had campaigned on the issue of changing the calendar, but should have recognized their first priority on being sworn in was to become acclimated to and informed about district operations, and trained in the basics of school board leadership and effective governance.”
Read more: The Marietta Daily Journal - Sanderson Board’s structure ineffective
(Excerpt) Read more at mdjonline.com ...
In November, 2010 there was a CCSD election in which three new Board Members were duly elected and created a change in voting balance of the Board and thus a possible change in CCSD values and direction. Elections do have consequences and some of our "Educrats" do not like the outcome of the election.
CCSD's Superintendent wrote the letter referenced in the Source URL referenced in this posting. It is addressed to an executive of the accreditation governing organization, SACS/AdvancED, that accredites CCSD.
This situation is becoming a heated disagreement over governance of CCSD. Basically, should CCSD governance be accomplished by a duly elected CCSD Board or by the Superintendent?
I believe that this discussion is going on across the United States. Please give me your comments?
School Districts should be run in the following ways. Parents should pay tuition to the schools for their children’s education. If the parents do not like the school policies, they should send their children to a different school. Single payer school systems will NEVER properly educate students. Forcing other people to pay for your children’s education directly violates two of God’s commandments. If you willingly send your child to a government school you are not a conservative.
Please give me your comments?
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Government schools should be immediately padlocked, and then razed. The foundations should be dug up, the land plowed and salted.
Children who attend godless government schools learn to think and reason godlessly. They must simply to cooperate with the classroom. How can that be religiously neutral? It can’t but we still get to pay for it.
By the way,....If every government school were to close tomorrow, the same children who are getting an education today would get one tomorrow. Why? Answer: Because little is learned in the classroom. It is the parents and child, himself, who are doing the hard work AT HOME!
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