School Board Meets
Aug 25
Clay's Board
of Edumacation held a public meeting Oct 25th in the Pentagon
beginning at 6pm. A very sick Boardster Cheryl White
participated via the tele. The meeting agenda on the system's
website listed a big list of hires, rehires, and resignations.
For the meeting, the revised agenda had none of the many many
many changes in personnel. Not sure what happened but instead
of a big meeting, most business on the 25th was completed in
less than 10 minutes.
Approved: Phil Dobbins as Asst Girls Basketball coach at Clay Middle; Crystal Black moving from Clay Elem over to the Kindergarten slot at H E White; Cory Stricker bailing out at Clay Elem and heading to the 2nd grade at H E White; Heidi Smith quit as a sub teacher; T J Legg resigned as Head Wrestling coach at Clay Middle.
Greed runs deep at the Pentagon. Even when they are cash cow laden with COVID millions, they want more more more. Agenda item 9 was approving their Excess Levy vote for another 5 years. With their fingers crossed that it snows a foot or more, the election is now set for Jan 29th. With coffers overflowing with millions in COVID funds, they want more.
Tina Burnette presented the Board with a lengthy presentation on how well the students are doing at the end of the first nine weeks. Her multi page color charts must have eaten up a bunch of ink cartridges and indicated the best picture she could come up with on how many questions the rug rats could answer.
After the action items were completed, a very uncommon discussion period netted some interesting information.
During the 20 months of the pandemic, never once has the Superintendent informed the public on how many students have the Corony bug. Finally, and after questions from the Board, Paxton reported, Clay High has 10 cases, Clay Middle has 3 cases, and 2 cases at each Clay and Big Otter elementary schools. H E White and Lizemore reported no deadly infections. Those numbers don't jive with W Va COVID numbers but at least he made some kind of comment. That's a first!
In other firsts and this question from Boardster Susan Bodkins, talk switched over to pee poor numbers coming to the teaching profession. Bodkins wanted to know : How many substitute teachers are there working in the system now. Paxton did not have an exact number working as teachers but did comment, subs can work even if they don't have a four year degree under their belt.
Joan Haynie added, if you have ANY college degree, Yelp, you're qualified, Poof! you are a teacher! Actually, now a days, almost any one (minus a felony conviction and 18 years old) can work as a sub teacher. Paxton added, coming soon and working its way thru the Legislature, anyone breathing can work in a classroom. He said they and all other school systems in the State are in desperate need of subs.
From that conversation and again from Superintendent Paxton, some counties have begun to contract out bus driving duties to private agencies.
In 19 minutes, the dust had settled minus any secret meeting or mumbles.
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Approved: Phil Dobbins as Asst Girls Basketball coach at Clay Middle; Crystal Black moving from Clay Elem over to the Kindergarten slot at H E White; Cory Stricker bailing out at Clay Elem and heading to the 2nd grade at H E White; Heidi Smith quit as a sub teacher; T J Legg resigned as Head Wrestling coach at Clay Middle.
Greed runs deep at the Pentagon. Even when they are cash cow laden with COVID millions, they want more more more. Agenda item 9 was approving their Excess Levy vote for another 5 years. With their fingers crossed that it snows a foot or more, the election is now set for Jan 29th. With coffers overflowing with millions in COVID funds, they want more.
Tina Burnette presented the Board with a lengthy presentation on how well the students are doing at the end of the first nine weeks. Her multi page color charts must have eaten up a bunch of ink cartridges and indicated the best picture she could come up with on how many questions the rug rats could answer.
After the action items were completed, a very uncommon discussion period netted some interesting information.
During the 20 months of the pandemic, never once has the Superintendent informed the public on how many students have the Corony bug. Finally, and after questions from the Board, Paxton reported, Clay High has 10 cases, Clay Middle has 3 cases, and 2 cases at each Clay and Big Otter elementary schools. H E White and Lizemore reported no deadly infections. Those numbers don't jive with W Va COVID numbers but at least he made some kind of comment. That's a first!
In other firsts and this question from Boardster Susan Bodkins, talk switched over to pee poor numbers coming to the teaching profession. Bodkins wanted to know : How many substitute teachers are there working in the system now. Paxton did not have an exact number working as teachers but did comment, subs can work even if they don't have a four year degree under their belt.
Joan Haynie added, if you have ANY college degree, Yelp, you're qualified, Poof! you are a teacher! Actually, now a days, almost any one (minus a felony conviction and 18 years old) can work as a sub teacher. Paxton added, coming soon and working its way thru the Legislature, anyone breathing can work in a classroom. He said they and all other school systems in the State are in desperate need of subs.
From that conversation and again from Superintendent Paxton, some counties have begun to contract out bus driving duties to private agencies.
In 19 minutes, the dust had settled minus any secret meeting or mumbles.
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