March 20, 2023
How about
a couple scribbles from the March 20th County Clay School
Board meeting held in the Pentagon on Gump Street. All
Boardsters were present.
Before the 6pm start time a public hearing was held to gather public input on next year's school calendar. Over 500 responses have been received from the online questioning. The first draft of the 2023-2024 calendar and mentioned during this public meeting included: Christmas break would begin Dec 22nd; start date for staff would be August 17th; start date for ankle biters August 23rd; and, Easter break would include Good Friday.
As we have heard many times, the Pentagon calls for input and then they do what they want with scheduling the school year. According to Tine Burnette, who ran the public hearing, all input will be considered during the process including the many Middle School kids who put in their 10 cents worth. If that's true, what a nice change.
There's one more public hearing to hear your ideas on the upcoming school calendar. That hearing begins at 5:30pm, in the Pentagon, on April 3rd.
As for this meeting and public comments... zip would be the correct answer.
Before the 6pm start time a public hearing was held to gather public input on next year's school calendar. Over 500 responses have been received from the online questioning. The first draft of the 2023-2024 calendar and mentioned during this public meeting included: Christmas break would begin Dec 22nd; start date for staff would be August 17th; start date for ankle biters August 23rd; and, Easter break would include Good Friday.
As we have heard many times, the Pentagon calls for input and then they do what they want with scheduling the school year. According to Tine Burnette, who ran the public hearing, all input will be considered during the process including the many Middle School kids who put in their 10 cents worth. If that's true, what a nice change.
There's one more public hearing to hear your ideas on the upcoming school calendar. That hearing begins at 5:30pm, in the Pentagon, on April 3rd.
As for this meeting and public comments... zip would be the correct answer.
Take a look at those numbers especially Lizemore and H E White. There ain't no way a school can be kept open. Also note, on the Middle and High School numbers, those include the kids doing their work online and not in regular daily attendance
Between 2002 and now, the Clayberry School system has lost 25% of its student base.
Big Otter Principal Anthony Boggs
Interested
in the upcoming selection of a new Superintendent? So is
everyone else But before...
Anthony Boggs was on hand for a presentation on the Big Otter Elem Spotlight portion of the regular meeting of the Board. On the power point charts shown, looked and sounded pretty good. Maybe the most important thing Boggs said was: all teachers are fully certified at his school. That ain't the case for any other school in the county. Having professional teachers may be the reason Big Otter has a more effective program than all the other grade schools combined.
Anthony Boggs was on hand for a presentation on the Big Otter Elem Spotlight portion of the regular meeting of the Board. On the power point charts shown, looked and sounded pretty good. Maybe the most important thing Boggs said was: all teachers are fully certified at his school. That ain't the case for any other school in the county. Having professional teachers may be the reason Big Otter has a more effective program than all the other grade schools combined.
Part of Mr Boggs Presentation
Here's one of the power
point presentations from the March 20th meeting. This chart
shows progress at Clay Middle School. The orange bar showed
second testing and improvement. The other way to read the
numbers: 84% of 6th graders are not at grade level in math;
78% of 7th graders are below grade level performance in math,
and 70% of the 8th graders are lagging behind accepted
performance. Performance yes but if your rug rat is in Clay
Middle School, he or she does not have the foundation for high
school studies
As for starting the year out (blue bar chart) in the tank and some improvement (orange bar), Tina Burnette, "We are no way satisfied but we're showing improvement."
Ok Ok, now the Superintendent part.
The Board went into secret time (6:42pm) to set up interviews for the seven candidates for that opening. If you look at the school system website, two special meetings have been set aside for the meets and greets, March 27th and March 29th, 6pm.
No candidate names were made public during the March 20th regular meeting. So..... we're going to speculate. We're basing that speculation on the number of faces at the meeting. Those folks included: Phil Dobbins, Dr Michelle Samples, Tina Burnette, Leslie Goe, and interim Superintendent Joan Haynie. That's five. That means, there must be two outsiders applying for the job.
Of that list, all guesses readers, only Joan Haynie has told us, she would like to stay at the top spot for 12 months. That makes sense.
Whomever is in charge will have the monkey on their back to close school (s) and handle staff cutbacks. Haynie could do that job and then walk off into retirement leaving a clean slate for the next Superintendent.
As for starting the year out (blue bar chart) in the tank and some improvement (orange bar), Tina Burnette, "We are no way satisfied but we're showing improvement."
Ok Ok, now the Superintendent part.
The Board went into secret time (6:42pm) to set up interviews for the seven candidates for that opening. If you look at the school system website, two special meetings have been set aside for the meets and greets, March 27th and March 29th, 6pm.
No candidate names were made public during the March 20th regular meeting. So..... we're going to speculate. We're basing that speculation on the number of faces at the meeting. Those folks included: Phil Dobbins, Dr Michelle Samples, Tina Burnette, Leslie Goe, and interim Superintendent Joan Haynie. That's five. That means, there must be two outsiders applying for the job.
Of that list, all guesses readers, only Joan Haynie has told us, she would like to stay at the top spot for 12 months. That makes sense.
Whomever is in charge will have the monkey on their back to close school (s) and handle staff cutbacks. Haynie could do that job and then walk off into retirement leaving a clean slate for the next Superintendent.
Tina Burnette
Phil Dobbins and Michelle Samples (r)
Hiding behind a podium, that's Boardster Lo Nutter
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