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Floating a Broughton compromise

Submitted by KeungHui on 12/10/2008 - 12:36
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The Broughton High discussion is still dragging on.

The school board just defeated a motion to end discussion on the issue. The board is now taking a 10-minute break.

Before the break, board member Patti Head floated a compromise in which Broughton would partially lose its magnet program. She suggested moving the Middle Years Programme, which touches all ninth- and 10th-graders, to another school while keeping the Diploma Programme, serving interested juniors and seniors, at Broughton.

The room is packed with people on both sides of the issue. Supporters of removing the program have brought in speakers such as Hope Carmichael, who had helped lead efforts to fight conversion of Lacy Elementary to a year-round calendar and later backed the 2006 bond issue.

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Whatever happened, it looks

Thu, 12/11/2008 - 10:03 — shank56

Whatever happened, it looks as if Carmichael helped broker a deal to save Leesville parents too.

Again, incidental

Thu, 12/11/2008 - 14:09 — Sideburns

In other words, she saved her own.

BTW, how do you "broker a deal" with WCPSS? 

is she really a Leesville

Thu, 12/11/2008 - 14:15 — AngelaW

is she really a Leesville parent?

No.  She's a Lacy parent I

Thu, 12/11/2008 - 14:20 — shank56

No.  She's a Lacy parent I am told- who lives in the Broughton district but not in a reassigned node.   What I heard was that of the 5 people who spoke against the magnet program-  2-3 of the 5 do not have a child at Broughton - and 2-3 are not in nodes slated to be moved.

Let me finish

Thu, 12/11/2008 - 14:39 — Sideburns

I should have finished my sentence. It should read.

"In other words, she saved her own a##."

The result of others not facing reassignment is secondary. Do you really think Ms. Carmichael was thinking about the Leesville reassignments...or the value of her home?

 

 

She wasn't in a node slated

Thu, 12/11/2008 - 14:43 — shank56

She wasn't in a node slated to be moved-- just a parent of elementary kids who would like to be at Broughton one day, I presume. 

thanks, I was fairly certain

Thu, 12/11/2008 - 14:27 — AngelaW

thanks, I was fairly certain she wasn't....I mean she was succesful in opposing MYR @ Lacy after-all.....everyone knows Leesville hasn't had much luck with MYR.... :(

I find it hilarious that

Wed, 12/10/2008 - 13:32 — jenman

I find it hilarious that Hope Carmichael is in the mix again. She's a heavy hitter with a lot of political clout in WCPSS circles. Yep, sideburns--sacrifice is great when its somebody else!

yep

Wed, 12/10/2008 - 13:31 — BadSnort

That's exactly what happened.

When Lacy was removed from the conversion list, Save our Summers were yanked up and replaced with sign supporting the bond.

As long as it's not me....

Wed, 12/10/2008 - 12:59 — Sideburns

Must be hitting close to home again for Ms. Carmichael. I remember listening to her at the Apex Town Rally against MYR. She gladly supported the bond once Lacy Elementary was removed from the conversion list. Sacrifice is good when it's always someone else doing the sacrificing.

 

 

 

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T. Keung Hui covers Wake schools.
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