Jan 24 2022
Dave Mullins
serves as School Board Chair. He has for a number of years.
Mullins is one of those guys that prefers to work behind
closed doors to get things done.
It wasn't that long ago that Dave needed some help from the Ace Cub Reporter. His significant other was having some problems and Dave asked the lad to use some of Dave's confidential info in a newspaper article to make a difference for his sweety.
The Ace Cub Reporter was unwilling to use the possibly bogus info and backed away from the backdoor meeting. Without an article to help his side of the battle, it's been downhill since then.
Our Board of Ed met on Jan 24th in the Pentagon. Morgy Triplett and Cheryl White participated via a tele connection.
About the only thing from the meeting agenda worth mentioning was finally appointing a replacement vice principle at Clay High. The winner is
Angela Nichols
It wasn't that long ago that Dave needed some help from the Ace Cub Reporter. His significant other was having some problems and Dave asked the lad to use some of Dave's confidential info in a newspaper article to make a difference for his sweety.
The Ace Cub Reporter was unwilling to use the possibly bogus info and backed away from the backdoor meeting. Without an article to help his side of the battle, it's been downhill since then.
Our Board of Ed met on Jan 24th in the Pentagon. Morgy Triplett and Cheryl White participated via a tele connection.
About the only thing from the meeting agenda worth mentioning was finally appointing a replacement vice principle at Clay High. The winner is
Angela Nichols
Nichols is
moving to CCHS from Clay Middle School.
This meeting was held on the 24th, just four days before their much desired Excess Levy election, a time when the Pentagon wanted everything to run smooth and without controversy.
One other note. Dave Mullins isn't the brightest bulb in the pack.
Second note. Mullins stays so peed off at the reporter, he demands the guy request to get on a public meeting agenda before even sneezing.
Now for the main event.
With the agenda items covered in short order, it was time for the reporter to ask: During all this non traditional school time of virtual online classes, do you know how many students are actually participating?
The question was asked of Joe Paxton.
Quickly, Mullins responded, I thought I had made this clear, We don't make answers!!!!
Readers, what he was saying was, they are mute on anything brought to a public meeting from parents, grand parents, tax payers, supporters and anybody else for that matter.
Mullins face was all red and blue but the biggy was Joe Paxton, about.0225 more intelligent than the Board Chair, he instantly knew trouble was here and at the world's worst time. Paxton told his Board, I can tell the Board if you want.
Make note please, the School Superintendent is the only person actually hired by the Board. They are the only ones that can actually fire a Superintendent. With that in mind, Paxton applies plenty of suction to Mullins at every corner of the road. If Mullins ever stops too quick, Paxton would have a broken nose in short order.
Being that .0225 smarter, Paxton knew he had to get something out to the public.
He started in with his usual bunch of words but provide little to the reporter's easy question. His words were glowing imprimaturs of how wonderful the educational system is doing in County Clay.
Somewhere in his sugar coated diatribe was mention, teachers do know how many students are actually participating.
Boardster Sue Bodkins asked about attendance if DSL isn't working or non existent. His sugar coating continued until Bodkins asked, Are kids using it?
Paxton did not answer.
Bodkins asked about grants and getting the small schools to provide equal services like wellness centers, counselors, and therapists. Paxton: Blah blah blah
Back to the part about are kids actually doing the online classes.... While doing some web searching, the Ace Cub Reporter came across some study that showed, in rural areas, the participation rate was around 18% on average. With that 18% being dismal, we think Paxton's big cover up may be even worser.
Because internet services are so spotty, because parents/guardians don't give a rate's patutty about their wards' education, local hot spots are practically non existent, and there are few incentives to get the kids online, we think the Clayberry participation rate in virtual classes is less than half of the 18%.
With no one in office willing to make that info public and Paxton unwilling to tell his bosses how bad things really are, if that info gets out it would be terrible for the powers that be.
Your tax dollars at work! Got ta love em!
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This meeting was held on the 24th, just four days before their much desired Excess Levy election, a time when the Pentagon wanted everything to run smooth and without controversy.
One other note. Dave Mullins isn't the brightest bulb in the pack.
Second note. Mullins stays so peed off at the reporter, he demands the guy request to get on a public meeting agenda before even sneezing.
Now for the main event.
With the agenda items covered in short order, it was time for the reporter to ask: During all this non traditional school time of virtual online classes, do you know how many students are actually participating?
The question was asked of Joe Paxton.
Quickly, Mullins responded, I thought I had made this clear, We don't make answers!!!!
Readers, what he was saying was, they are mute on anything brought to a public meeting from parents, grand parents, tax payers, supporters and anybody else for that matter.
Mullins face was all red and blue but the biggy was Joe Paxton, about.0225 more intelligent than the Board Chair, he instantly knew trouble was here and at the world's worst time. Paxton told his Board, I can tell the Board if you want.
Make note please, the School Superintendent is the only person actually hired by the Board. They are the only ones that can actually fire a Superintendent. With that in mind, Paxton applies plenty of suction to Mullins at every corner of the road. If Mullins ever stops too quick, Paxton would have a broken nose in short order.
Being that .0225 smarter, Paxton knew he had to get something out to the public.
He started in with his usual bunch of words but provide little to the reporter's easy question. His words were glowing imprimaturs of how wonderful the educational system is doing in County Clay.
Somewhere in his sugar coated diatribe was mention, teachers do know how many students are actually participating.
Boardster Sue Bodkins asked about attendance if DSL isn't working or non existent. His sugar coating continued until Bodkins asked, Are kids using it?
Paxton did not answer.
Bodkins asked about grants and getting the small schools to provide equal services like wellness centers, counselors, and therapists. Paxton: Blah blah blah
Back to the part about are kids actually doing the online classes.... While doing some web searching, the Ace Cub Reporter came across some study that showed, in rural areas, the participation rate was around 18% on average. With that 18% being dismal, we think Paxton's big cover up may be even worser.
Because internet services are so spotty, because parents/guardians don't give a rate's patutty about their wards' education, local hot spots are practically non existent, and there are few incentives to get the kids online, we think the Clayberry participation rate in virtual classes is less than half of the 18%.
With no one in office willing to make that info public and Paxton unwilling to tell his bosses how bad things really are, if that info gets out it would be terrible for the powers that be.
Your tax dollars at work! Got ta love em!
AW end