Back to the Beginning Teacher Support Plan presentation.
This Beginning Teacher Support Plan also included Mentors for beginning teachers and included funding from the State for this teacher mentoring program.
Just as soon as the floor was open for discussion, Board Member Danny Blanton immediately brought up, as he has many times before, that the teaching curriculum should ensure that the basics of education should be well covered in the classroom. By basics Blanton has explained many times that a student graduating from CCS High Schools should be able to count to 100 and be able to sign their paychecks in cursive. Blanton has previously explained that he hired some newly graduated students over the summer to help him put up hay and they could not count to 100 or sign their paychecks. The same experience many employers in Cleveland County have had regarding CCS educated graduates. Blanton also reminded the rest of the Board that the law requires that these basics be taught.
Watch the video below for Danny Blanton’s clear, cogent and responsible directions that a good school board member would present such fine expectations to the CCS Administration regarding the education of our children. If every school board member would back up Danny Blanton on such as this CCS would indeed be at the top “best” list for education in North Carolina and the USA. But it will soon be obvious the help on the school board that Danny Blanton and CCS students need will have to wait until the November 7, 2017 Election when Danny Blanton, Robert Queen, Kevin Whisnant, and Rodney Fitch win the school board elections.
Ms. Walker stated that counting and cursive writing was in the K-2 curriculum already. K-2 I wondered. So, I called some relatives that are in the Cleveland County School District, one recently graduated and the other a junior in high school. Oh yeah, they remembered being taught cursive in the second grade, but they never used it after that and have forgotten all about it now. And the crazy math stuff CCS teaches now makes no sense. Parents and grandparents well versed in mathematics cannot help the students because of the crazy way they are teaching it now. As for my own experience, people that were taught math the way I was taught math put a man on the moon. Now graduates of high school and maybe even college can’t make change for a $20 bill. Ask your children how to make change for a twenty if your purchase is $8.23. You will be surprised. You might as well forget about putting a man or woman back on the moon. The USA has to pay the Russians for hitching a ride to and from the international space station which is not nearly to the moon.
After Danny Blanton was finished Board Member Donnie Thurman, Jr. (whose seat is up for election this year but Thurman chose not to run for re-election) agreed with Danny Blanton that CCS should teach the basics well, but quickly went on to questions about the mentor program and how it should be expanded.
Then , the incredible happened. Board Member Kathy Falls, up for election this year, who refused to change her registration in time to avoid having to get her name on the ballot by the petition process, the one who sued the Elections Board and cost taxpayers lots of money, ups and tells Ms. Walker that “I’m kind of dumb!” Falls says some kids do math well and some kids do not. Some kids read well and some kids do not. We do the best we can with the kids we are sent. Kathy Falls is blaming all the problems with the CCS education on the students that “we (CCS) are sent.” Just like she blamed Speaker of the House Tim Moore for her own stupidity that caused her to have to get a petition with 500 signatures to get her name on the 2017 School Board ballot. Kathy Falls blames everything on somebody else, even school kids. Who needs anybody like that on the school board???
