There are other options:
1. Restart Monday Morning and develop new data that would determine if and when schools should shut down again. Something that should have been determined before CCS shut down to begin with.
2. The School Board keep schools shut down until the Health Department finally recommends when it is safe to restart. Again, something that should have been done to begin with. I recommended this several months ago.
3. Immediately Sub-out education in Cleveland County to Charter Schools, Church Schools, Private Schools, Home Schools and Tutors. These folks don’t have Raleigh bureaucrats telling them what they can’t do, bogging them down. Shut down every school in the CCS system. Divide the CCS total Budget by the number of Students (About $10,000 per student per year) and let the money “follow the student.” That money would actually pay for his or her education instead of allowing Million$ to be wasted by a forever shut-down Cleveland County Schools. I did not invent this concept. It is called School Choice. Home school parents can get paid to stay home and teach their kids themselves. And the extra family money would help replace the need for that second job (or that second person working) many have to get to pay the bills. Same with new Charter Schools, Church Schools and Tutors. Laid off teachers from CCS could be tutors and teachers at these alternative education centers.
I recommend the third option. School Choice!!! Then School Board Chairman Robert Queen can keep all his secrets to himself and Poodle Glover could rant and rave ‘til the cows come home. And nobody would care.
