Speculating whether Maurice Green would be a good fit for Wake County schools superintendent

I never talk to him, I don't know what his opinion is on anything. I refuse to get into that garbage and ignored those posts because it is all so stupid. I don't care if they had an affair just like I did not care if Clinton had an affair.

John did not try and create racially identifiable schools, he laid out a plan that was a controlled choice plan. I think he called it a smart choice plan, but it was definitely not a neighborhood schools plan. He worked with Anne McLaurin to create schools that would take a holistic approach to caring for children with health clinics in schools. He understands the limitations of these communities and knows that schools are the ideal place to offer access to everything from healthcare to job training for adults. Busing kids to schools 20 miles away does prevent high poverty schools but it is really hard for kids to assimilate. Of all the low income kids at Leesville NONE participate in the 20 clubs at the school because of transportation. In Wake Co if a child does not have their immunization record they can not come back to school until they have their record. One of our kids in our afterschool program missed 3 days of school until his mom could go to sunnybrook rd and get a copy of his records. This system has been horrible for ED children in a million ways.

And yes, John's plan and Tony's plan was the way to give children a better education because the focus shifted away from making a child's demography their destiny to making schools accountable for educating ALL children.

I appreciate you watching the video. There are 2 different groups of people - education reformers who want to preserve public education and reform a very destructive system, and those who would like to move away from public schools all together. I am in the former, not the latter. I would put John in the former too. I don't know about some of the others, but there probably is a mix of opinions.

I find it so ironic that you - a supporter of a policy that labels and targets certain types of children for reassignment - would question Malone using the word "good". You and your team have labeled children in this county for decades. Too many poor kids makes a school "unhealthy" - too many black kids makes a school "failing" - too many "rich" kids makes a school "elitist". You and your GSIW friends are nothing but a bunch of hypocrites.

GSIW sent out their newsletter this week - all peaches and cream about an assignment plan that is going to be passed in just 5 weeks. But that's not rushed - because diversity busing is on its way back. And rumor has it that Martin wants to be the next supt. I'm sure Yevonne is working that deal too.

It would be hard to find a teacher jumping from the classroom to superintendent. Most go through the ranks of principal, etc.  They do get training in budgets, adminstration, etc. that go along with leadership (e.g. superintendent) positions, so your argument is flawed at the core (or just deliberately misleading).  I don't see how it is better for a non-educator to be put in the superintendent's position. Take someone like John Tedesco, running for the top position in the state.  What budgetary experience does he have?  What substantive administrative duties has he performed?  Are you counting Tea Party speeches as some sort of leadership experience?  The closest thing to reform we'll likely get from him is his support of the legislator gutting education budgets.  He's a joke being played on our citizens and I just hope people get the joke before election day.  Oops, BS, you already voted for JT, didn't you?  Uh oh.