How innocent is it that school board chairman Kevin Hill is proposing canceling the Dec. 15 board meeting?
Hill has discussed dropping the second December meeting with current and new board members. He says there's not much going on then that there needs to be a meeting so close to the holidays.
Hill also points out that the board doesn't always meet twice in December.
The board canceled the second December meeting in 2006. But the board met twice in December in 2007 and 2008.
One thing to consider is that only having one December meeting could limit how much the new board majority gets done before the holidays. If the Dec. 15 meeting is dropped, the new board would only meet on Dec. 1 before returning Jan. 5.
One of the questions has been how aggressive the new board will be on Dec. 1.
The longer it takes to make changes, the more challenging it will be to get them in place for the 2010-11 school year.
Comments
I wonder if they are
Fri, 11/13/2009 - 16:14 — red_balloonI wonder if they are approving leave requests in greater numbers for admin staff to cripple the new Board's momentum.
Something for Hill to do.
Fri, 11/13/2009 - 15:00 — ncmpgjrContacted by e-mail Thursday, school board chairman Kevin Hill said the issue belongs in the realm of the legislature. “As such, the board hasn’t discussed this and I have not had time to do any homework on it,” he said.
Maybe you could look into elections on the 15th since you apparently don't have much on the plate Mr. Hill.
Call me crazy, but I don't understand the big deal.
Fri, 11/13/2009 - 10:41 — Athey01Mr Hill is "discussing" cancelling a second meeting with current and new board members. At the first meeting, if the majority of the members say they want a second meeting, I'm sure there will be a second meeting. I think we all need to pause and step back from the keyboard.
Okay, you're crazy! Mr. Hill
Fri, 11/13/2009 - 11:00 — woodstockOkay, you're crazy! Mr. Hill said "there is not much going on." That is a huge deal considering that the most significant game-changing school board election in decades just took place in Wake County and a new direction is about to occur. The most forgiving spin one could attribute to Mr. Hill's point of view is that he is enormously cluless; but that is not likley. I think he deperately wants to the stem the tide of change, but it's an unstoppable tsunami and, unless he wants to part of the solution, he will simply be washed away with the other status quo floatsam.
Well, it's not the first time I've been called crazy.
Fri, 11/13/2009 - 14:58 — Athey01However, my point is that Mr. Hill is only one member of the board. The majority will decide the direction and number of board meetings.
Hill is either "innocent,"
Fri, 11/13/2009 - 10:21 — woodstockHill is either "innocent," stupid, or playing games. None of those qualities characterize the kind of person we need sitting as chairman of OUR school board. His perspective is as troubling as Jennifer La Lame's.
It is beginning to look like there are many entrenched status quo malcontents, unwilling to be part of the solution, that may have to be moved (shoved?) aside in order to move forward.
There's SO much going on so
Fri, 11/13/2009 - 10:09 — NWRaleighMomThere's SO much going on so Board needs to meet MORE not less!
as expected fighting right up till the end
Fri, 11/13/2009 - 09:45 — stacy123If Mr. Hill really believed these changes were so bad he should help them move quickly and then they can cause an uproar and Mr. Hill Rose Gill, Patti Head et.al. can run for re-election and have a mandate to fix it all. By bringing back mandatory year round, mandatory bussing, constant re-assignments to new schools, re-instating wacky wednesday's, no school holiday for Memorial day - but only in Year round schools! Should I go on? No way the current board will mess things up as bad as the current board. But that being said we'll still have things to comment on regarding WCPSS but they'll be the typical mis-management, inefficiencies of public govmts, education that we see in every level.
Seems reasonable
Fri, 11/13/2009 - 09:45 — Bob_SconceThere are so many things broken that the December 1st meeting may stretch until the 15th.
Two things need to be addressed quickly:
(1) Wacky Wednesdays
(2) Year-Round schools
The incoming board could ask Chuck Dulaney to prepare a list of year-round schools which could be converted back with only minor assignment changes if they drop policy 6200. Now, they're not on the board yet, so Dulaney wouldn't have to do it. But, considering that these are the people he will soon be working for, he probably should.
Agreed, but given Chuck's
Fri, 11/13/2009 - 10:01 — CaryCurmudgeonAgreed, but given Chuck's arrogance I would not be surprised if he isn't thinking that he will bring the new board members around to his way of thinking (if that is the case, he is dead wrong).
No doubt
Fri, 11/13/2009 - 11:03 — Dadof3This is the time to call WCPSS on their dissembling and bombarding everyone with reams of useless and misleading data. The Board must demand that the WCPSS gives them the data they need — as defined by the Board — and reject any reports that reek of any attempts to "swamp the boat" I have no doubt that Chuck will use every means to confuse everyone at every chance, and I expect that we will find "leaked" reports to the media in no time. Like I said early, the fight has only just begun.
If there's no good-faith effort put forth by WCPSS admin, the board must do what it must do. We've played games in Wake Co at the families' expense, for way, way too long.
and so the unmitigated
Fri, 11/13/2009 - 09:40 — AngelaWand so the unmitigated arrogance is now laced with fear....such is the way with bullies.
If they're scheduled to
Fri, 11/13/2009 - 09:39 — ncarolinagirlIf they're scheduled to meet, they should. The 15th is 10 days before Christmas. It's not like the date is set for Christmas Eve.
Not much going on?
Fri, 11/13/2009 - 09:12 — petehsMr. Hill--ask any parent (I know, that would be a stretch) in this school system if there are problems that desperately need our attention and certainly you would have packed agendas even if you met EVERY day in December.
"He says there's not much
Fri, 11/13/2009 - 09:36 — CaryCurmudgeon"He says there's not much going on"
... and Nero fiddles while Rome burns.
Hill's a joke!
Fri, 11/13/2009 - 09:26 — g88ky07"The longer it takes to make changes, the more challenging it will be to get them in place for the 2010-11 school year"
no, it just means parents, and Mr. one-term Hill, will have to deal with shorter notice to the changes that are coming!