Get Schooled

By Shari

August 28, 2008 8:46 AM | Link to this

Put them on probation - the children should have to suffer from the schools mistakes!

By bearcasey

August 28, 2008 9:16 AM | Link to this

31 year educator here. It’s ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE for a school system to lose its accreditation. Clayton has managed to overcome the odds and do it! I wonder why?

By Ernest

August 28, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this

I’m hoping Shari meant the children should NOT have to suffer due to the mistakes of it school board. It seems as though they have made the steps requested by SACS to avoid losing accreditation. Assuming they have complied as requested, they should retain accreditation. If SACS needs assurances they new board structure will work for the good of the community, perhaps probation would be appropriate.

IMO, metro ATL would not want them to lose accreditation. Indirectly it could affect all of us.

By DB

August 28, 2008 12:45 PM | Link to this

Now we know. I found it disturbing a few weeks ago when the most important issue that the new school chair could find to pinpoint was “hey, the other counties are stealing our athletes — NOT FAIR!”

What’s not FAIR is the extraordinary mismanagement that brought Clayton County to this point in the first place. And, months and months after the warning that SACS accredidation will be withdrawn, no discernable progress. That Monday meeting school board meeting was embarrassing to any responsible-thinking citizen, that it would come to MONDAY before certain actions (resignations, etc.) took place.

I’m sorry that it’s the students that will have to bear the brunt of the consequences that the school board has inflicted on them. And I think it’s real nice that the Clayton County Commission NOW thinks it’s time to “step up to the plate” (heavy sarcasm here). DUH!!!!

However, the governor, by okaying HOPE for Clayton County Schools as an emergency measure, basically cut the balls off any real consequences for Clayton County. I was extremely disappointed by this move — there are rules for reasons, and it seems that political expediency overruled this one.

To hell with Clayton County — they made their bed, and even being told that they have to re-make it, they ignored the warnings. So now they have to lie in it, and if they think that I am going to wash their dirty laundry, they are vastly mistaken.

By jim d

August 28, 2008 1:20 PM | Link to this

I just love this part.

The judge wrote that the board members “have violated the Georgia Open Meetings Act, have violated the board’s code of ethics for board members, and have engaged in conduct unbecoming of a board member and in breach of the public trust.”

Here’s why. This judge has just opened the door for people in Gwinnett to write Sonny calling for his actions against the GCPS BOE for violating public trust in failing to comply with the open meetings act when voting to purchase properties behind closed doors, which Thurbert Baker has unoffically stated is a violation of Georgia’s open meetings act.

Napoalvin, Are you reading this!! Do you understand the ramnifications of the judges decision?

By HS Teacher, Too

August 28, 2008 2:35 PM | Link to this

“However, the governor, by okaying HOPE for Clayton County Schools as an emergency measure, basically cut the balls off any real consequences for Clayton County.”

This is a decision that will have implications and ramifications for years to come. Just as colleges and universities in Georgia are getting louder with their complaints about the number of “Hope earners” who are only qualified to take remedial classes, or who lose their scholarships after one semester, the governor signs such a short-sighted legislation that allows any student wtih the pre-requisite grades FROM ANY SCHOOL to earn the Hope?

Does GREAT things for the rigor of our schools. I can’t tell you how many times I had “college prep” students who couldn’t cut it, whose parents yanked them from public school and put them in a private, unaccredited school (that shall remain nameless) until they could put them back into public school JUST TO GET THE HOPE at the very end.

Is EVERYONE short-sighted in the governor’s office? Am I missing something? Dana, if you’re reading, can you tell me something I’m overlooking that makes this make sense?

By Lee

August 28, 2008 6:51 PM | Link to this

Well, I would have lost the bet on that one. I figured Clayton would do just enough to allow SACS to put them on probation and drag things out for a year.

Going to be interesting to see if the state will take over the system…

By thomas

August 28, 2008 8:07 PM | Link to this

There are some hateful, vindictive people in this world. A unseen hand comes down (through SACS) to punish some people for rocking the boat and thousands of people have to suffer because of it. I can bet you that these people’s children or the children of their friends and associates would not have been given the mark of Cain. But I guess those people in Clayton are worth less than a fart to the people in charge.

This whole debacle was political. I always said there was a double standard in this country. What went on in Clayton happens all the time. But I guess when the infraction is committed by somebody outside the club, the penalty is death.

By can we grade admin too?

August 28, 2008 8:30 PM | Link to this

What is really ironic about the SACS investigation is the whole thing started when members of the CC board filed a complaint with SACS about OTHER board members! That sort of got the ball rolling. It is sad that some people (students, teachers and the community at large) will be paying for this issue. But maybe after things get ironed out, CC schools will improve.

By bearcasey

August 29, 2008 8:18 AM | Link to this

Everyone knows that Clayton is flooded with egotistical refugees from Atlanta who elected a “wannabe politcian” school board. I won’t bother to state the obvious.

By CialisMonMydayMab

September 2, 2008 11:54 AM | Link to this

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