New board members undergoing orientation

Did Keith Sutton set aside his antagonism toward the newly elected members and finally reach out to them at this orientation?

Revhid - not sure if you were aware last year the board received several warning letters/reprimands for not following the procedures on class size. I believe the situation was (as it was long ago I can not remember the exact cause) WCPSS received a warnign of soemtype and a deadline to rectify which they did nothing by the deadline and then got the reprimand.
As an interim measure until new schools get built it, I beleive most people would prefer re-assignment back to neighborhood schools and they could deal with assignments on a stable, systematic way to reduce friction. Example new developments built in a current school node would not displace current students or would be guaranteed to go to 1 of 2 schools but not determined until officially appleid for enrollment. This way the options would be known in advance and presumedly less friction.
My understanding is WCPSS turned down federal stimulus money that would have paid for some teachers to stay on and keep class sizes down.- the rational was they did not want to have to lay them off in 2 years! So I think higher class sizes are here to stay for a pretty long while. Mr. Hui if you could confirm is this is correct or not I'd appreciate it.
Also, my school years always had 28-25 students and I do not recall any TA's and test scores were higher back then (my understanding is that test scores have been declining for 3-4 decades). So I am not a proponent of class sizes smaller than 28, there is a dwindling effectiveness of smaller classes and I beleive somewhere between 28 and 32 is probably ok, but I have no data to back this up just lower test scores on SAT's etc. and knowing class sizes were larger back when I was in school (70's-80's) then they are now.

I hope the desperation begins to show on the face of WCPSS status quo architechs and administrators who have cooked the books and lied to Wake County parents & taxpayers for years....
BeGONE with you.

New members listen up important training on roberts rule of order:

new board member (NBM) #1 I motion to vote on a new chairman of the WCPSS Board - Ron Margiotta

NBM @'s 2, 3 and 4 (In unisom) "I 2nd the motion!"

repeat for elimination of wacky wednesday , mandatory year rounds,  neighborhood schools - give parents the choice of their current school or the closest one to their house do not guarantee automatic acceeptance - give a janaury 31st deadline to see if capacity allows accomodating all parents - note use the current permissible teacher student ratio not old 25 to 1 which is built into the current capacity #'s.  give parents choice on year round or traditional - unconvert as many as possible based on maximum enrollment at each school - this allows for a higher # of parents to be accomodated.  Allow parents at these schools who would like to remain at year round automatically get approved at the remaining year round and at the year rounds you can not convert allow parents to opt out inot traiditonal to make room for these parents.  For year round gaurantee that all fmaily members will be on the same track but no guarantee of the track as without a full track 2 they will still be under-utilized. 

go for it!