Praising Beverley Clark's service on the Wake school board

Lavish praise? Interesting, seeing how the "right" thing for the BoE to do was to make Ms. Clark the Chairperson. But no, she had the big "R"(ino) next to her name, and that would of upset the ITB Overlords. Oh well, there is no politics like local politics.

I would like to thank Ms. Clark for helping destroy a perfect good school system by support programs that had no basis if fact, that help implement MYR schools, and worse of all, hired "insiders" from the WCPSS bureaucracy.

Mr. Clark, please let the door kick you in the rear on the way out. Good riddance to bad trash.

The N&O has covered numerous school system successes, including:
the system's success at reassigning thousands of students against their wishes;
the system's success forcing families in MYR against their will;
the system's success winning the lawsuit allowing forced MYR;
the system's success at denying those from naturally diverse "not the right schools" equal access to magnet schools;
the system's success at pushing through scheduling changes without the input of more than four parents;
the system's success at alienanting and frustrating thousands of parents and potential supporters;
the system's success at pulling apart thousands of friendships between students;
the system's success at having students asking "what did I do wrong that I can't back to my old school";
the system's success at perpetuating negative stereotypes about the economically challenged and the schools that have more of them by having BoE members refer to them as "not the right" schools;
the system's success at not closing the achievement gap;
the system's success at determining that if children flew to school straightline distance in spaceships that turn into bookbags 85% would fly no more than five miles;
the system's success at sidestepping the intent of NCLB provisions;
the system's success at not having the graduation slip even more compared to the state average than it already has; and
the system's success at continuing to have numerous schools not meeting AYP, including a number that are not Title I schools, and despite the fact that Wake is one of the most educated and affluent counties in NC.

I am sure I am missing some of the many successes that have been covered by the N&O.

If Ms. Clark did not like what she was reading she might have tried asking herself why these things did not seem like successes and what could be done to improve those things.

My advice to Ms. Clark would be, if she thinks expectations are too high here, to never move to my 45% F&R home county where they do not tolerate mediocrity very well. They fired the principal of the only school that did not meet AYP and are not happy with the average performance results of the district. Rumblings have started for the Superintendent to go. This happens because they know that they can do much better despite the fact they have a higher percentage of ED population than state average because they've done it before. There is no way that they would consider the performance here, especially in light of the favorable education levels and affluance of the population, a success.