CMS leaves County feeling snookered......(CO article) (Charlotte: schools, college)
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No need to donate any more of my resources. They have plenty now and will have plenty more come tax time. While you worked as a teacher for a year, I would not say you are qualified to tell us about the supposed challenges of running a growing school system. The top level CMS employees are supposed to know what they are doing in order to justify their six-figure salaries. Instead, they seem to have no answers even though we all can see what is going wrong, and consistently preach gloom and despair if they don't get more money each year. Perhaps some of those economics teachers could set up a few tutoring sessions with the school board and top administrators.
Individually, at the school level, we have had nothing but great experiences. Most teachers in CMS are giving 120%. The issue I have is with how the budget is being portrayed throughout the year. Either there is a severe crisis or there is a ton of extra $$. I honestly don't know what to believe.
The sports that they were planning to eliminate were middle school extracurricular sports - ie, the school teams that compete against each other. At this time they have approved 4 middle school sports for next year and supposedly if they "get the money" they will bring the rest back as well. This article refers to getting free equipment, etc. to add teaching cricket in the PE classes, after-school programs (which I'm not reading as "extracurricular teams"). So they aren't adding another sport - just something else to teach in elementary and middle school PE which wasn't what they were talking about eliminating.
No need to donate any more of my resources. They have plenty now and will have plenty more come tax time. While you worked as a teacher for a year, I would not say you are qualified to tell us about the supposed challenges of running a growing school system. The top level CMS employees are supposed to know what they are doing in order to justify their six-figure salaries. Instead, they seem to have no answers even though we all can see what is going wrong, and consistently preach gloom and despair if they don't get more money each year. Perhaps some of those economics teachers could set up a few tutoring sessions with the school board and top administrators.
The school system could use your "genius" to solve those problems since "you know whats wrong" (donate your genius). Yep, degrading the credentials and experience of top-level administration is the kind of support that is needed to move forward. I criticize many decisions but slamming the admin for stressing and preparing for the worst-case scenario ain't one. I guess some of you have a crystal ball, so traditional economic theory doesn't apply. UNC public universities did the same thing, prepared for massive cuts, upwards of 15 to 20%.
CMS didn't snooker anyone. It is the people who read and believe everything in the Charlotte Disturber. If they can find one comment, they make a bogus or misleading story about it. Taking what the Disturber says is like using Wikipedia for facts. My paper is about 10 pages thick so they are just looking for something to get more news.
Please stop posting stories from the Observer unless you really know the facts. Show up at a board meeting. Go to a City Council meeting.
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CMS didn't snooker anyone. It is the people who read and believe everything in the Charlotte Disturber. If they can find one comment, they make a bogus or misleading story about it. Taking what the Disturber says is like using Wikipedia for facts. My paper is about 10 pages thick so they are just looking for something to get more news.
Please stop posting stories from the Observer unless you really know the facts. Show up at a board meeting. Go to a City Council meeting.
GET INVOLVED IN THE COMMUNITY
True. All districts were instructed to prepare multiple budgets. This was documented, over time, in the Shelby Star. Cleveland & Lincoln Counties were given worst case scenario budgets. CMS wasn't. This is a more measured article. Rich schools, poor schools: N.C.'s gap may be growing | CharlotteObserver.com & The Charlotte Observer Newspaper (http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/06/20/2391717/rich-schools-poor-schools-ncs.html#storylink=misearch - broken link)
CMS didn't snooker anyone. It is the people who read and believe everything in the Charlotte Disturber. If they can find one comment, they make a bogus or misleading story about it. Taking what the Disturber says is like using Wikipedia for facts. My paper is about 10 pages thick so they are just looking for something to get more news.
Please stop posting stories from the Observer unless you really know the facts. Show up at a board meeting. Go to a City Council meeting.
GET INVOLVED IN THE COMMUNITY
You did not even read the article. You are just talking......after you read the article pick up the phone and call Pendergraph and talk to him about it. You will get further.
If you are so small minded to think that everyone in this community bases their thoughts on something the CO writes and perhaps not their own experience in their child's school well then that is your own bias.
the whole article revolves around one quote... yet you conclude that CMS is the party to blame?
The quote:
"Pendergraph says school leaders knew about the additional state money before the commissioners voted; school board members have denied that."
Furthermore, there are multiple paragraphs explaining how the budgets are set... all of which seem to support CMS' explanation. Yet because Pendergraph *says* differently?!? Show me some proof!!
the whole article revolves around one quote... yet you conclude that CMS is the party to blame?
The quote:
"Pendergraph says school leaders knew about the additional state money before the commissioners voted; school board members have denied that."
Furthermore, there are multiple paragraphs explaining how the budgets are set... all of which seem to support CMS' explanation. Yet because Pendergraph *says* differently?!? Show me some proof!!
This has long been a topic on CD with quote after quote, article after article. Feel free to do a search. I don't owe you any proof, do your own research should you choose to.
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