The next Item was the COVID Update.
Supt. Fisher gives all the usual numbers that are totally unsuitable for evaluating whether or not to restart schools. (I won’t get into that just now in this article.) Samantha Davis’s information that the Health Department’s numbers were wrong and misleading was ignored. Chairman Robert Queen announces that a Committee decision has been made to delay the reopening of schools for K-5 to February 22, 2021. No explanation of why. This vote was 6-3 with RINO Greg Taylor voting with the other Republicans.
Then the lack of transparency issue flames right back up during Board Member Reports.
Greg Taylor again says ther3e is little communication between Board members
Dena Green still has issues with transparency and communications, the lack of both.
Danny Blanton says he will continue to stand up for the kids and taxpayers/
Joel Shores apologizes for the lack of communication.
Ron Humphries says Poodle Glover is another P.T Barnum with his grandstanding.
Poodle Glover goes off that another Board Member is calling him names.
Coleman Hunt says the Board is fractured and only has a 100-day agenda. That CCS is not “failing” although the number of failing schools and test scores say CCS is failing. Hunt also says that for all the talk about the CCS lawsuit against the Sheriff, the old law firm “had done a lot of good.” Robert Queen should have challenged Coleman Hunt right then and asked for some instances when the old attorney had done good. Hunt was grandstanding too as about all the “good” Hunt was talking about was the old lawyers covering up lawsuits and negotiating secret settlements when CCS had done bad things. Maybe Coleman Hunt will publicly ask me for some instances. And I will publicly give him some. As well as ask for an official investigation of some CCS sex crimes and just exactly how the lawsuit against the Sheriff came about and who knew what and when.
Rodney Fitch stated that the division of the Board started at the December 14, 2020 School Board meeting seating arrangement. Which started with the Old Board and was turned over to the New School Board Majority as soon as they were sworn in and a Chairman was selected. I attended that December 14, 2020 School Board meeting at the LeGrand Center and wondered myself about the weird seating arrangement, Fitch was correctly telling the New Board Minority that they were not blameless themselves.
Robert Queen finished up by stating “what others are calling an Agenda (a Political agenda by the New Board majority), I call a PLAN!” Obviously, Queen does not understand the meaning of transparency. That is why I spent time at the beginning of this article clearly defining what transparency actually means. Queen went on defending the way his committees operate, refusing to believe what everybody is telling him. Me included. And Communication is a too way street-basically blaming the lack of communication on others. About that time someone in the audience stated that Queen doesn’t respond to emails. Queen retorted that “I am not going to be baited into a Facebook Catfight!” Apparently with the intent to show his “elitism” by insulting all those that regularly communicate with others via Facebook.
By all accounts from attendees at the January 25, 2021 School Board Meeting, the meeting was a shocking tragedy. In my opinion, Robert Queen appears to be the cause of most of the complaints about the lack of communication and the lack of transparency on the New School Board. And Robert Queen refuses to accept his part of the blame for the failure of his “Committee” processes that tend to promote illegal secret meetings with secret decisions. This is why I changed my mind about the leadership capability of Robert Queen in My Part I article that was confirmed by the many fiascos of the January 25th Meeting that is described in this Part II article.
In my informed opinion, Robert Queen should immediately resign or be removed from board membership of the CCS School Board as well as the CCC Board of Trustees. After this January 25 School Board meeting, I would add that Phillip “Poodle” Glover also should immediately resign or be removed from the Board of Education. Otherwise the best interest of our children will never be met and a CCS education will continue its steep slide towards failure.
Also note that I smell a rat in the Operations Committee regarding secrets about plans for new auditoriums and major renovations in the gymnasiums at the aging Burns and Crest High Schools, As well as the secret involvement of Architect Roger Holland with these projects even though Holland’s firm has a history of going 40-60% overbudget on recent projects at CCS Schools and the new County Health Department building. I will certainly be attending CCS School Board Operations Meetings and requesting Public Records regarding these and various other projects.
