First, CCS has many beginning teachers on a regular basis because of a large teacher turnover due to resignations that Danny Blanton has brought up on many occasions. When Mr. Blanton asks about this Superintendent Fisher goes into his “fast talking” mode and other board members try to shut down Mr. Blanton as I described in my last article about CCS Board Meetings. Scroll on back for this information. In the end Blanton is told that CCS is in line with other districts regarding teacher resignation rates. Perhaps I should have kept quite about Superintendent Fisher’s MO and the others as they have read my article and are trying to better use their “poker Faces” and slowing down their talking so nobody else will pick up on it. They try in this meeting but it doesn’t work too well.
Then, you have to wonder why the General Assembly is having to take time to write new laws that require any such Beginning Teacher Support Plan to begin with. Wouldn’t you think a Superintendent who makes over $200,000 counting benefits and all the other highly compensated administration folks in the Central Offices would be able to figure out such as this all by themselves? Well, they haven’t and apparently neither have the many other school districts and school boards haven’t either. Just another reason to get rid of the Cleveland County School Board’s good-ole-boys and good-ole-gals and let the other school districts do the same.
As for myself, me being me, I look up Senate Bill 599 to see for myself what it is supposed to do and what it says. WOW!!! I see Cleveland County Schools, especially the school board and high level administrators are in BIG trouble!!!
The short title of SB599 is simple enough. It reads ” Excellent Educators for Every Classroom.” Nothing is wrong with that. Among other things related to requiring and maintaining high teacher qualifications, the law itself aims to keep criminal and child sex offenders and such out of the classroom too. Again, there is nothing wrong with that. One problem I see with this Cleveland County School Board is that local boards are supposed to report criminal and sex offenders to the State Board so that the offender’s license is revoked-which means they can’t just move on to another school district and keep on with their predatory sexual offender stuff. That part of the law is good too, but the CCS Board likes to get their offenders to quietly resign so CCS won’t look bad. Then the offender just moves on to another school. Often out of state for a while and then back to North Carolina. Merrily, merrily, merrily leaving a string of sexual offended kids along the way. Be ready for a case just like this that I am working on for my series regarding “I smell a Rat down at the Courthouse.” If you think the courthouse crowd is mad at me for publishing the truth in the Mike Drake trying to protect his under-aged daughter from being sexually molested article, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Scroll on back and read those two articles and be ready for the next in the series. If you read this paragraph closely and live in the Shanghai area of Cleveland County you might have already figured out what and who that article will be about. And be ready to demand some resignations from the Cleveland County School Board. It’s about time CCS gets some cleaning-up instead of covering-up.
A tip for all you readers. Please read every article closely. The bad stuff going on at CCS, CCC and with the Commissioners just doesn’t happen one day and be gone the next. They have a continuing process where one thing leads to another. It just goes on and on. Election to Election. And the stuff continues forever until you readers turn into voters that show up on Election Day and send the bad guys and gals packing.