School Board Meets
March 14 2022
Phil Dobbin's (right) We The People group attended the March 14th School Board meeting as they prepare to go to National Competition in DC. They need some $$$ to make it happen. Can you donate? Call Phil over at Clay High
It's interesting to watch when a wheel comes off a well oiled machine. That's what's been happening in 2022 for the Clayberry School Board and the Pentagon.
The Board held their public meeting on March 14th in the basement of the Pentagon. All Boardsters participated with Morgan Triplett joining in via the tele. Chairs in the peanut gallery were nearly filled including several of the candidates for School Board during the May Primary Election.
They went thru the various ho hum motions with no descent except item 9 which read : Approve the transfer of Crystal Gibson from CCHS Principal to Homeless Specialist (grant funded).
Know what's going on? Here's some background.
In Feb Clay High teachers staged a coup. 26 of 30 teachers agreed to a vote of no confidence which in reality meant, they wanted rid of CCHS Principal Gibson and Vo Ag Director Bob Morris. To have that much gumption, backbone, gonads, that really says something.
That no confidence letter including a list of grievances was sent to the Pentagon which already knew they had a problem at CCHS, a big problem.
Since then, administration has worked to get thru this crisis. Their shorts have been all bunched up. Making matters worse, lots of people have been showing up at Board public meetings. The Board hates it when the prying eyes of the taxpayer are looking at em.
Fast forward to the end of Feb where the creation of a new job to put Ms Gibson out to pasture was on a meeting agenda. The job posting was structured to meet the qualifications of only Gibson. Just before the vote to send Gibson out to pasture, low and behold, a wrench got in the big gear. A second candidate turned in her application for the job.
Instead of a quick vote and get the outgoing Principal away from the CCHS work site, everything stopped as interviews had to be held.
That was a slow down Superintendent Joe Paxton did not expect nor could he control when the other applicant advanced her resume.
For this March 14th meeting, item 9 came up for a vote. Instead of the usual all Ayes, there was a split. First Nay came from Boardster Cheryl White followed a split second later by Susan Bodkins. A split vote, 2 to 2, means, the Pentagon nor Board Chair Dave Mullins had their act together.
The split was the same as throwing someone under the proverbial bus.
With Dave Pierson and Morgan Triplett voting to transfer the Principal and Susan and Cheryl voting no way Jose, that put Chair Mullins in the hot seat. He had to show his hand. His hand was, Aye in favor of the transfer. Because there was no discussion by any official, we don't know why the Aye or Nay vote.
Maybe just maybe, a No vote meant: we don't want to give the outgoing Principal an easy way out. Maybe, a No vote meant they wanted to leave the long time Principal at CCHS in place.
With the vote in place, Principal Gibson will remain at CCHS until her replacement is named according to Super Paxton.
It's almost election time and the Pentagon wants to keep their existing Board.
The group just lost their Excess Levy Election, something that added a bunch of pork and something they really wanted to have.
Then there was all the rat poo in the Home Ec classroom
The came the employee uprising.
Then there was a widow lady wanting $$$ from her deceased husband's benefits and was denied.
And now, just now, comes the first mention of some kind of who doo about using school security cameras to identify who voted during the Jan 29th Excess Levy Election.
Jan, Feb, and March have been double H for the normally in control, Clayberry School System.
What a great year for media and it's just getting started.
Around the corner is the May Primary Election. That should indicate how close taxpayers are understanding what has been going on for decades. Welcome 2022!
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