Editor’s Note: This exercise is NOT in any way to be confused with any criticism of any student at Cleveland County Schools. It is an exercise to logically recognize the way CCS administration may try to deceive the public in their actual overall performance in the Education of ALL of our students.
CCS Superintendent Dr. Stephen Fisher spent a goodly amount of time during the January 10th, 2022 School Board meeting informing the School Board that the CCS Early College High School had a graduation Rate of 100%. Really bragging about how good Cleveland County Schools are. Supt. Fisher spent ZERO time talking about graduating rates at the other four high schools. And NOBODY on the School Board asked one question.
That is the scenario. Let’s analyze the situation in a logical manner and see what we can tell from the results of logical analysis.
Subject being analyzed: CCS Early College had a 100% Graduation Rate.
Facts:
The CCS Early College is located on the Campus of Cleveland Community College where the students take both high school courses and sufficient college courses to earn an a CCC Associate Certificate at the end of their time at the Early College.
The Students that attend CCS Early College are hand-picked from the regular high schools because of their already good grades and an already recognized exceptional academic potential.
Question: What is the big deal that such students would have a 100% graduation rate?
Answer: All these students would have been expected to graduate from this CCS Early College Program or they would not have been accepted into the Early College to begin with. The 100% graduation rate was expected. If there was NOT a 100% graduation rate, then the big would have been Why NOT 100%!!
Conclusion: CCS Superintendent Dr. Stephen Fisher was exhibiting deceptive messaging tactics in an attempt to generate false positive thoughts such that anyone listening; School Board members, News organizations such as the Shelby Star and other low information persons who might not be well versed with the facts and the use of logical thinking methods would accept those false statements without a second thought.
Lesson Learned: Folks, do your due diligence. Get yourself informed and when you are fed false and deceptive statements, call out the offender. Whether it be Supt. Fisher, School Board members Rodney Fitch, Luke Queen, Ron Humphries, Joel Shores, Greg Taylor or anybody else.
