Discussing benefits of rehiring Del Burns as superintendent

"The article qualifies all this by saying that Burns indicated last week he won’t reapply for his old job."

An entire article wasted on a premise that the author admits won't happen.

If he'd really been a serious journalist, he would have fleshed out the article with more details.  For instance, if Del Burns, who has said he would not reapply for the old job, were to be hired for the position, would WCPSS provide a pink unicorn for him to commute to work?

OH YES!  Please do return so that, unlike Maurice Boswell, the WCPSS and the WC Commissioners can follow through on their investigations of the shennanigans you pulled on people that worked under you.

The article says that Goldman might be "open to adjusting the assignment policy to ensure that no schools fall below a minimum level of academic achievement." The article says "that adjustment would effectively eliminate the potential for low achieving, high poverty schools that caused Burns to resign."

i.e. = the expectation is that "poverty" students will ALWAYS stay low achieving

It will also effectively eliminate raising achievement because once again it will be all about REDISBURSING achievement instead of actually RAISING achievement.

Hey, if ES students get stuck in a school with an ineffective principal and ineffective teachers who set low expectations for students and use ineffective strategies, such that their achievement is subpar - no worries, we will blame the victim. When the students don't achieve, we won't replace the principal or the ineffective strategies or retrain the teachers. Nope, we will just give them new students to damage. Afterall, it must have been the students even though similarly situated students at a different school have much better results. We will just say some how, some way those must be a different kind of student. For "balance" the damaged kids will then be accepted into a MS to be mixed with the undamaged kids that got lucky enough to go to an ES that had a good principal, effective teachers and effective strategies. That's how you make lemon juice with your lemons and you don't even have to do the lemon dance. You make the kids do the dance.

It will also allow the power structure to continue where we can track the "poverty" kids, who just happen to be predominately black and Hispanic, down because they actually are not expected to ever achieve. But hey, we "care" about them and there's always prison or the welfare system to catch them.

No worries for our school system though because we have a plan to spread them around, so no one really notices that they aren't achieving like those "better" middle class white folk and all our schools "look good". No need to actually figure out how to close the gap. We'd been paying it lip service for YEARS and can just go back to doing that. We're "working" on it ;-) Just try not to notice three, five, eight years later we are still working on it because we don't really think it can be closed. (perception becomes reality)

Once again the focus will be on overall school scores, just don't look under the demographic breakdown rug. The business tools, real estate contingent, educrats and political hacks will be happy. The Blob can keep feeding on kids. It's all about the adults here.

Now that he's an admitted partisan, WHY would Wake County want to shift backwards? Why not just appoint Jim Black back into the NC House and put Mary Easley back at NC State!

Burn's departure is one of the best accomplishments of the board.  The fact that Goldman disagreed with the rest of the majority on the assignment policy doesn't mean that she's gone totally bat-s*** crazy.