Rumors about Beverley Clark resigning from school board

Is that what prompted the call from the gentleman who said he'd gone to poor black schools and there was nothing wrong with the kids, they just didn't have equal resources. Then he went on to say that the resources needed to be reallocated and not the kids bussed all over and that all the racism accusations were ridiculous? At which point Millberg seemed to back peddle and say they look at SES not race?

Here was my child's take on Millberg (reposted from another thread)

Out of the mouths of babes - (I have never discussed the WCPSS view on all this or my feelings about it with my kids so I don't know from where this came - intuition?) Driving my kids to camp this morning I was flipping through the radio stations and heard "neighborhood schools" so I stopped on the station. Turns out it was Lori Millberg. She went into her spiel about the whole high ED schools can't be healthy thing. My eight-year old pipes up from the backseat, "That's just stupid. It's not the kids, it's good teachers. They just need good teachers to help kids learn and how to behave like my teacher did with Johnny (name changed)." (Johnny BTW is NED.) And then came, "Mom? Is THAT why they do reassignments?" (I'd never told her that she was reassigned to change the F&R rate at her old school.) What could I say?

She's either a quitter, like Lori and Patti, thankfully, OR the puppet handlers over top of her looked down and said hmmmmmmmm, if we can appoint one more status quo person before the elections we can help offset our impending doom with those elections!

We did have one F&R node moved during the last reassignment mess, but it only was 17 kids out of about 520.   I believe we were also impacted by the change to the age for kindergarden which reduced our numbers.   Beyond that I don't know what changed that reduced our F&R status from above 37% to below 30%. 

What? And drive the final nail in my "shut up you know nothing parent!" coffin?

I don't think is a great number but it is a factor.  We know from the Blog that CaryCurmudgdeon mentioned moving to get out of Baucom and into Davis and Dana Cope made a public point of selling his house to stay with Lacy so it happens.  First, moving is mainly an option for the rich who compare the cost against private school and second most of the schools are similar today so the pressure to move, rent, cheat is not great yet.  If the disparity between the schools grows (e.g. neighborhood schools) those activities will increase just like in any market where there is a value differential. 

Clark has a child who went through WCPSS / magnets and graduated from Enloe in the last couple of years.  She was active in Wake PTA and did PTA training as a parent volunteer  for those in her district long before she ran for school board.

What facts can you you offer ??

I am a conservative Republican, but an endorsement by the Wake County Republicans means nothing to me. In fact, it is cause for serious concern when it comes to BOE elections. Last election, the Wake County Republicans endorsed Republicans Patti Head and Horace Tart, two of the status quo candidates that have gotton our schools into the mess we have to deal with today. The Dems are no better, politics is more important than education to them too.

The nonpartisan Wake Schools Community Alliance has it right. They support candidates that have the experience, character, and knowledge to enact positive change in Wake County. Change that puts education first, supports neighborhood schools and provides real solutions for students who face socioeconomic challenges.