Spokesman Doug Goodwin said the teacher, who was let go by the district, tried to re-enroll her child at Mount Bethel Elementary School on Wednesday morning, in accordance with a revised policy that the board passed on Tuesday. That policy change allowed children of teachers who were laid off to continue attending the school where their parent worked. But a member of the staff at Mount Bethel turned the former educator away. Goodwin said principals at the district's 116 school were not told about the change in policy until Wednesday morning.
"This was just a misinterpretation," Goodwin said. "It's no one's fault, just unfortunate timing ... Unfortunately, we didn't have everything we needed to have that particular time she went to the school."
The district allows the children of employees to attend the school where their parent works, as well as the schools in that feeder pattern, as long as the parent can provide transportation. However, an administrative rule stipulates that once an employee is laid off or resigns, the student is no longer eligible to attend that school.
But in a brief meeting Tuesday, the board voted 4-0 in a motion made by Alison Bartlett, to waive that policy for the 2010-11 school year, which starts on Aug. 5. The policy change only applies for the upcoming school year and will affect about 44 students.
Although the board voted on Tuesday, Goodwin said principals were not alerted of the change until Wednesday, when an e-mail was sent out from Deputy Superintendent Dr. Steven Constantino. Each individual family affected by the policy revision, Goodwin said, would receive a letter sent to their home today. The specific situation at Mount Bethel had been resolved by Principal Joan Johnson at the school as of Wednesday afternoon, Goodwin said.
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And what happened? We allowed radical groups to incementally destroy basic ideals that were taught in schools for decades...centuries. We allowed them to take God out and replace Him with Darwin. We allowed them to stop prayers and devotionals and replace them with the disrespect that so many of the students have now for anything honorable. We allowed our Founding Fathers and their ideals of liberty and freedom to be replaced with a one world order. I wonder how many of today's students really know that socialism is really communism? And do they know how many have died or were pushed down at the hands of the communists? And do they know that it is still happening in this world? What happened is that we allowed agendas to repalce morality and it is reflected in the leadership we have now. Vote out all incumnents now and in 2012 and bring in some new faces.
1. Can pay them much less
2. Can control them. Every government instution loves control and inexperience lends you to being controled by administration.
Send an email to all school principals on Tuesday morning, advising them that the CCSD board was voting Tuesday night on whether to allow the children of terminated teachers to re-enroll at their previous school.
AND tell the principals to check Wednesday morning for a follow up email, advising the principals of the outcome of this vote.
If there was no email by 8:00 AM Wed,, then the principals should be advised to call Dr. C at Glover St. for the outcome of this vote.
This procedure is pre-planning, something that teachers, principals, and most people in business know something about, but evidently is used only selectively by the higher ups at Glover St. Jay Dillon could have been directed by Dr. C. on Tuesday night to send a system wide email to principals or Dr. C could have told Jay Dillon to send an email before 7:30 AM Wed.
Does no one in the upper echelons have any common sense at Glover St?
I wrote an e-mail to my director of bus routes 10 days ago and still have not gotten a response. That is not acceptable.
What's noteworthy is that the teachers - even those embittered by recent mishandlings by the board - recognize that Cobb has the best schools around and want their own children to continue to attend.
Here's hoping that the new members of the school board will work to make them even better. I know they will.
Typical of these leaders to fail to admit a mistake and correct it. Things would have stayed as they were if people had not shown outrage.
Never doubt that your single voice does matter and stay engaged in the actions of these fine leaders. Hold their feet to the fire until we can vote them out of office and away from our kids and the teachers that deserve better than they are getting. Enough with the double talk, already.
I know he is a very important, busy and smart man, according to his own press, but why did he not take the 5 minutes needed to e-mail the principals of the schools? To call a special board meeting due to his mean spirited actions should have alerted this smart, important and busy guy that this needed to be acted on with all due speed.
He could have said in his e-mail, I just found out I don't make up the rules, please allow the kids back in school... or something to that effect.