Lets analyze this a bit. If the existence of CIC is necessary because CCS fails to educate many of our children properly, why don’t we just get rid of CCS and let CIC run it all. Or, If there are problems with CIS, why don’t we just get rid of CIS and fix CCS. The answer is easy, if there are problems with CIS, get rid of it and fix CCS.
A little deeper analysis calls the question, just what is CIS and what do they do for CCS that justifies CCS giving them taxpayer dollars? The next question would be, why does Pinnacle Classical Academy or the other nearby Charter Schools not need a CIS too?
Now the immediate issue at hand is, are there problems at CIS??? Let’s look at what went down in this August 28, 2017 School Board meeting and you decide. Just like you need to decide who to vote for in the upcoming 2017 School Board Election.
Back to the meeting when the school board gets to the CIS funding part of the agenda.
Board member Danny Blanton, in his very effective Gomer Pyle style, states to the full board, minus Donnie Thurman, that he cannot support funding CIS without knowing that some “problems” he has become aware of at CIS are brought to the attention of the full board. Blanton states that he has discussed these problems with Board Member Roger Harris (a well known and proven cover-up artist) who is also the Chairman of the Board for CIS as well as CCS Superintendent Fisher, who is also a CIS Board member. Blanton is asked what these problems are? Blanton replies that the problems are of the nature that a Closed Session would be required to discuss them. Remember the five categories of problems we listed earlier in this article. You can bet the problems Danny Blanton is talking about involves one or more of those categories.
The simple solution for the CCS board here is clear. Make a motion to go into closed session and the full board gets to hear from Danny Blanton about the problems. But NOOOO! The Board doesn’t want to do that. They effectively are saying they don’t want to hear about the problems at CIS, just give them what they want ($$$) and move on, to Hell with taxpayers.
And, Their statements are stupid too. Especially Board member Kathy Falls. First Falls asks Superintendent Fisher, “for the public to know, what is the role of the CCS Board in this matter?” How stupid is that? Falls asks Fisher to tell her what her job is. For your information Kathy Falls, CCS is paying the bills with taxpayer money and the board’s role is what they chose their role to be. The fact Kathy Falls asks such a question shows her incompetence that should disqualify her from ever sitting on the School Board, much less getting re-elected. Falls says she doesn’t want to “start any rumors coming from the Board” about problems at CIS, especially during election year when she might get asked a question during a candidates forum. What Falls should have said was “I make a motion to go into Closed Session to hear the facts of this matter and then move forward with any actions that are appropriate.” But Nooo!!! again. For Kathy Falls, she prefers the see no evil, hear no evil, say no evil approach followed by spend, spend and spend some more. Glover, Miller and the rest of the CCS Board (aside from Blanton) are content with Kathy Falls’ approach. Then they ask both Roger Harris and Stephen Fisher if Danny Blanton had told them about problems and would such problems need to be heard in Closed session. Yes to both questions from both Harris and Fisher. Harris incredulously says the unbelievable, “there is no problem” NOW “because it has been taken care of.” (Note that CCS Board Member Roger Harris has been a longtime cover-up artist for CCS. (A forthcoming article regarding Roger Harris’s cover-up escapades and obstructions of justice is coming soon. This will expose that fact for all to see. Perhaps Roger Harris will resign before he is thrown out of office in 2019, or thrown in jail where he belongs. Others too!!)
