{"id":8102,"date":"2025-03-17T20:10:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T00:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/?p=8102"},"modified":"2025-03-17T20:10:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T00:10:20","slug":"the-root-cause-of-the-long-decline-and-failures-in-ccs-schools-educational-standings-is-the-ccs-school-board-especially-joel-shores-and-aaron-bridges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/2025\/03\/17\/the-root-cause-of-the-long-decline-and-failures-in-ccs-schools-educational-standings-is-the-ccs-school-board-especially-joel-shores-and-aaron-bridges\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u201croot cause\u201d of the long Decline and Failures in CCS Schools\u2019 Educational Standings!! Is the CCS School Board!!!\u00a0Especially Joel Shores\u00a0and Aaron Bridges"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Folks, remember back in January, 2025 when President Donald J. Trump was goingthrough his Presidential Inauguration \u201cProcess?\u201d Which included a service at a Washington, DC Church delivered by Bishop Marianne Edgar Budde? However: many People of God, Including Rev. Franklin Graham of NC, have been very, very critical of Bishop Budde\u2019s foolish statements made regarding Newly Elected President Trump. From Robert A\u2019s<\/i><\/b><\/u><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0prospective, the comment below was the best comment regarding Bishop Budde. Best because it directly relates to Government entities everywhere in the USA. And, especially right here in Cleveland County, NC:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe cause of America\u2019s decline was not what was sitting in the pew (Trump), but what was standing behind the pulpit (Bishop Budde). What we heard today was not a prophetic voice from the church, but rather pathetic.<\/i><\/b><\/u><\/em><\/strong>\u201d \u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/em><\/strong>By Tony Perkin, President of the Family Research Council.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/em><\/strong>Robert A<\/i><\/b><\/u><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/em><\/strong>has often<\/i><\/em>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/em><\/strong>PARAPHRAISED<\/i><\/b><\/u><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/em><\/strong>this statement by imploring the Citizens and taxpayers of Cleveland County to \u201c<\/i><\/em>go look in the mirror<\/i><\/b><\/u><\/em><\/strong>\u201d to determine why the governmental entities in Cleveland County have become so corrupted and lie to the people so often and lie about so many issues. From County Budgets, Property Taxes, Sales Taxes, the New Justice Center Project and the CC financial standings amongst so many other things. <\/i><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/i><\/em><\/i><\/b>Editor\u2019s Note<\/i><\/b><\/u><\/em><\/strong>: Included in this article is an analysis regarding the March 10, 2025 CCS School Board Meeting. Which was packed with errors, mistakes, lies and an evil display of corruption on many levels about many things. Only, this time, we will go to the very end of the meeting and work our way back to the start of the meeting. And all the high-handed and low-down lies, deceptions and omissions in between. And, then there were the \u201cprotesters!!!<\/i><\/b><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Perhaps one of the more sinister aspect of the \u201cNew\u201d CCS School Board under CCS School Board Chairman Joel Shores\u2019 \u201cunholy\u201d regime is the very last thing on the School Board Meeting Agenda-The \u201cSchool Board Member Comments<\/b><\/u><\/strong>.\u201d Chairman Joel Shores has arranged the seating of the School Board members and always begins the \u201cComments\u201d that begins with his buddy Ron Humphries on Shores right side, on down that line and then back up the other side. Always making sure that, Vice-Chairman Aaron Bridges and then Chairman Joel Shores have the LAST words. It is an old and dirty trick. (<\/i><\/b><\/em><\/strong>Especially since there were an overly large group of \u201cProtesters\u201d<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0in the audience who had stayed all the way through the usually boring CCS School Board meetings to the very end.<\/p>\n

At this particular March 10, 2025 School Board Meeting, there were an unusually large contingent in the Audience that had sat silently through the entire meeting until the Public Participation <\/b><\/strong>part of the meeting came up. Then there was an unusually large number of speakers that had signed up to speak. Mostly all about the same subject-The \u201cActivism Club\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/u><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0at Shelby High School and how their Constitutional Rights had been violated by Cleveland County Schools and the CSS School Board. Which had resulted in a Federal Lawsuit that was filed February 5, 2025 against CCS Superintendent Stephen Fisher in both his Official Capacity as well as personally. And All of the CCS School Board Members in their Official capacity. A Federal Lawsuit that has illegally<\/i><\/b><\/u><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0been covered-up by CCS and the CCS School Board.<\/p>\n

When each of the Public Participation Speakers finished speaking, these Protesters<\/i><\/b><\/u><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u201cclapped\u201d long and hard as their single mode of protest. Totally shutting down CCS School Board Chairman Joel Shores from taking any adverse actions against them. Which was 1,000% a \u201csmart\u201d thing to do, as any adverse action for \u201cclapping\u201d would have required Chairman Joel Shores to have to take adverse actions every time somebody would \u201cclap\u201d when a student athlete, or a whole sports team, had won an award and was recognized by the CCS School Board.<\/p>\n

Note that these \u201cProtesters\u201d had used the same MO and tactics as the recent <\/b><\/strong>Peaceful Protesters<\/b><\/u><\/strong>\u00a0(Sponsored by the <\/b><\/strong>Shelby Women for Progress<\/b><\/u><\/strong>\u00a0and the <\/b><\/strong>Shelby Pride<\/b><\/u><\/strong>\u00a0groups) had used on the Uptown Shelby \u201cOld\u201d Courthouse (Scruggs Center) just a few weeks earlier. An event that <\/b><\/strong>Robert A<\/i><\/b><\/u><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0attended. Not in support of the particular issues of their Peaceful Protest, but in support of their right to protest. And that there were <\/b><\/strong>OTHER<\/i><\/b><\/u><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0things that Needed Protesting. Like the <\/b><\/strong>Failures<\/i><\/b><\/u><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0at Cleveland County Schools. <\/b><\/strong>Robert A<\/i><\/b><\/u><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is not claiming that he had anything to do with the \u201cProtest\u201d at the March 10, 2025 CCS School Board Meeting. But <\/b><\/strong>Robert A<\/i><\/b><\/u><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0did, in fact, make such suggestions and supports the continuation of such protests until the CCS School Board takes the actions necessary to make the needed changes at CCS. (Which is unlikely until the voters of Cleveland County finally get their act together.)<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n

Now, back to the END<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0of the Mach 10, 2025 CCS School Board Meeting, and the buffoon (As in Clown) impersonators: Aaron Bridges and Joel Shores.<\/p>\n

When it comes to Aaron Bridges\u2019 time to speak, Bridges went-off like a 100% Genuine Fool. Aaron Bridges, the Turncoat Coward and a well-known liar with alleged \u201czipper problems\u201d who switched sides in the selection of a new School Board Chairman (Joel Shores) earlier this year in exchange for making him the Vice-Chairman and perhaps other secret enticements, came out ranting and raving about how certain unnamed bad people were blaming the CCS teachers for all the bad student test scores. How this was just so unfair to blame the teachers and that the bad people\u2019s negative statements<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0on Facebook and other report (like Robert A<\/i><\/b><\/u><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and the<\/i><\/em>\u00a0Peaceful Protestors<\/i><\/b><\/u><\/em><\/strong>) were the ones responsible for all of CCS\u2019s educational failures.<\/p>\n

Then, CCS Chairman Joel Shores picked up on the Aaron Bridges foolish diatribe; saying it was his experience that \u201cNegatives begets Negatives <\/i><\/b><\/u><\/em><\/strong>and <\/i><\/b><\/em><\/strong>Positives beget Positives.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/u><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/em><\/strong>Clearly unaware that, by all Management Accounts, identifying problems is always the first act of correcting problems. And, that by ALL Professional Accounts, it is ALWAYS the fault of bad management\/leadership<\/b><\/u><\/strong>\u00a0when any organization fails to meet the realistic goals and responsibilities assigned to that organization.<\/p>\n

Then, the March 10, 2025 CCS School Board Meeting was adjourned.<\/p>\n

And, Robert A<\/i><\/b><\/u><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0decided to wait until the CCS School Board decided to do their usual Damage Control via a phony <\/b><\/strong>Press Release<\/i><\/b><\/u><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0to the <\/b><\/strong>Shelby Star<\/i><\/b><\/u><\/em><\/strong>. Which just came out on March 16, 2025, titled <\/b><\/strong>These Shelby-area Schools are considered low performance, according to recent state data<\/i><\/b><\/u><\/em><\/strong>. <\/b><\/strong>Written by Star Reporter Rebecca Sitzes and can be found at the following link:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.shelbystar.com\/story\/news\/2025\/03\/16\/low-performing-schools-in-shelby-nc\/82359782007\/\/<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n

Also, the nine failing schools<\/b><\/u><\/strong>\u00a0were identified in the Shelby Star article as noted below: (Note that the almost failing schools are not clearly listed in the Shelby Star article.).<\/p>\n