School Board Meets
May 9 2022
It was Election
Eve, the night before all the stars lined up perfectly and
change came to the Land of Little.
On Election eve, May 9th, the Clayberry School Board held a public meeting, well, somewhat public meeting. All five Boardsters were present as well as 20 or so in the peanut gallery.
In the way of blah blah blah, business as usual: Scott Ramsey resigned a head basketball coach at Clay Middle School, Melody Hubbard resigned as asst volleyball coach, Matthew Stricker resigned as head cross country coach.
On the side: Brian Collins is as now assistance football coach at Clay High (CHS), Christine Williams is the new athletic trainer at CHS,Jacob Clark as the asst basketball coach at CHS. Abby Moore is the new volleyball coach at Clay Middle, Phil Dobbins was hired at the head basketball coach at Clay Middle, Krechella Evans was hired as the head Volleyball coach at CHS, and Alex Keiffer is the new cross country coach at CMS.
The Board also gave the green light to all the extra duty contracts for all the Summer school programs from bus drivers to teachers to cooks and more.
Now for the juice.
Item 8 on the agenda was the hiring of Jeff Krauklis Sr for some kind of grant funded child enhancement program called CIS grant facilitator for Lizemores Elem. Boardster Sue Bodkins spoke up and said she would like to see younger people hired for the gravy jobs. Cheryl White asked: what is this program?
From around the front table: the program is kind of like a big brother, big sister program for troubled youth, the hires work with the school staff and they connect with the rug rats.
As for hiring younger untrained people for the job (s), Asst Superintendent Joan Haynie: the demands are extensive and a teaching background is necessary.
Oh, by the way, additional Federal funding has come our way allowing for each of the five schools to have their own facilitator.
Re-memory time: Back in Jan., the Super sent out nasty grams to all parents, something along the lines of, if you don't pass the Excess Levy, there will be no field trips, the kids can't have a free lunch and the sky will fall.
For this meeting, yet another group, TSA, are heading to Dallas for a national fun time after winning state level competitions in 2022. Consensus from the Board, your students from CHS and CMS will be funded. The kids head out June 24th for the six day affair.
And now, what we knew would happen. On the 9th, it was secret time for the Board. They said the reason: personnel matters.
The behind closed door session went for over an hour. When they came back into the meeting, not one mention was made, not even, "Gosh peanut gallery, we didn't make any decisions."
With the stories swirling that Superintendent Paxton being the target of a criminal investigation related to his Jan 29th Excess Levy failure and since we haven't heard of any major incident at a local school, we have some thoughts.
During that hour, Pretty Boy Paxton broke the news to his employers, the Board, Yelp, it's true, the Sec of State's office has him in their cross hairs.
There's little doubt in our heads what the away from the public meeting was about..
The questions are, while the state criminal investigation is in process, will the Board remove Paxton from duty? Did the Board discuss that scenario? Who would be the interim Superintendent? Asst Superintendent Joan Haynie would be the natural choice. Or, maybe, they would bring in someone from outside the system for the temporary duty.
Another. Since there are questions, and like any good employer would do, is the Board investigating the lad? Know what we mean? If Paxton worked at any store, before getting disciplined, turned loose, they would investigate, watch the store videos, ask feller workers and such.
Now five days since the secret time, we have heard nothing on the street about such thoughts.
What is on the street? We think there's another development, another piece of the puzzle, comning soon .
They did something for over an hour behind closed doors but what was it?
When all reentered the public part, Joe Paxton's face was red as a beet clear up to his eyeballs. We think that quiet time did not go well for the Superintendent. Just a guess but with good foundation. Oh oh oh, Paxton would have invoked the mandatory: I didn't do anything wrong, and that Communicator is full of bologna!
As the meeting was nearly over, a note. There was not one mention of the three Boardsters up for voter approval the next day. Not a good luck folks, hope you do well tomorrow, not a peep from Paxton. He was, and remains, more concerned about his own arss being on the line.
Next meeting: May 23rd at the Pentagon. Don't miss it readers!
AW
On Election eve, May 9th, the Clayberry School Board held a public meeting, well, somewhat public meeting. All five Boardsters were present as well as 20 or so in the peanut gallery.
In the way of blah blah blah, business as usual: Scott Ramsey resigned a head basketball coach at Clay Middle School, Melody Hubbard resigned as asst volleyball coach, Matthew Stricker resigned as head cross country coach.
On the side: Brian Collins is as now assistance football coach at Clay High (CHS), Christine Williams is the new athletic trainer at CHS,Jacob Clark as the asst basketball coach at CHS. Abby Moore is the new volleyball coach at Clay Middle, Phil Dobbins was hired at the head basketball coach at Clay Middle, Krechella Evans was hired as the head Volleyball coach at CHS, and Alex Keiffer is the new cross country coach at CMS.
The Board also gave the green light to all the extra duty contracts for all the Summer school programs from bus drivers to teachers to cooks and more.
Now for the juice.
Item 8 on the agenda was the hiring of Jeff Krauklis Sr for some kind of grant funded child enhancement program called CIS grant facilitator for Lizemores Elem. Boardster Sue Bodkins spoke up and said she would like to see younger people hired for the gravy jobs. Cheryl White asked: what is this program?
From around the front table: the program is kind of like a big brother, big sister program for troubled youth, the hires work with the school staff and they connect with the rug rats.
As for hiring younger untrained people for the job (s), Asst Superintendent Joan Haynie: the demands are extensive and a teaching background is necessary.
Oh, by the way, additional Federal funding has come our way allowing for each of the five schools to have their own facilitator.
Re-memory time: Back in Jan., the Super sent out nasty grams to all parents, something along the lines of, if you don't pass the Excess Levy, there will be no field trips, the kids can't have a free lunch and the sky will fall.
For this meeting, yet another group, TSA, are heading to Dallas for a national fun time after winning state level competitions in 2022. Consensus from the Board, your students from CHS and CMS will be funded. The kids head out June 24th for the six day affair.
And now, what we knew would happen. On the 9th, it was secret time for the Board. They said the reason: personnel matters.
The behind closed door session went for over an hour. When they came back into the meeting, not one mention was made, not even, "Gosh peanut gallery, we didn't make any decisions."
With the stories swirling that Superintendent Paxton being the target of a criminal investigation related to his Jan 29th Excess Levy failure and since we haven't heard of any major incident at a local school, we have some thoughts.
During that hour, Pretty Boy Paxton broke the news to his employers, the Board, Yelp, it's true, the Sec of State's office has him in their cross hairs.
There's little doubt in our heads what the away from the public meeting was about..
The questions are, while the state criminal investigation is in process, will the Board remove Paxton from duty? Did the Board discuss that scenario? Who would be the interim Superintendent? Asst Superintendent Joan Haynie would be the natural choice. Or, maybe, they would bring in someone from outside the system for the temporary duty.
Another. Since there are questions, and like any good employer would do, is the Board investigating the lad? Know what we mean? If Paxton worked at any store, before getting disciplined, turned loose, they would investigate, watch the store videos, ask feller workers and such.
Now five days since the secret time, we have heard nothing on the street about such thoughts.
What is on the street? We think there's another development, another piece of the puzzle, comning soon .
They did something for over an hour behind closed doors but what was it?
When all reentered the public part, Joe Paxton's face was red as a beet clear up to his eyeballs. We think that quiet time did not go well for the Superintendent. Just a guess but with good foundation. Oh oh oh, Paxton would have invoked the mandatory: I didn't do anything wrong, and that Communicator is full of bologna!
As the meeting was nearly over, a note. There was not one mention of the three Boardsters up for voter approval the next day. Not a good luck folks, hope you do well tomorrow, not a peep from Paxton. He was, and remains, more concerned about his own arss being on the line.
Next meeting: May 23rd at the Pentagon. Don't miss it readers!
AW