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Note To Jim Rex Campaign
I've been thinking about all the areas and points that the Jim Rex campaign should use to target Karen Floyd on. If you're thinking I'm going to advise Rex to use "my opponent has not put kids all the way through a school system yet," then your wrong. If you think I'm going to advise Jim Rex to go a route in which I don't like, and get personal, and target his opponent for being married to 3 different men in a span of 11 years, then you are wrong again! If you think I'm going to advise Jim Rex to target Karen Floyd on formerly being a big Pro-Choice Democrat woman and attending a Bill Clinton Rally with Inez T. back in 92' in Columbia, SC.......well, you are still wrong! Here below is what I would go after her at.Floyd airs new education initiative - Outside managers would help problem schools
The link above is an article which dates back to November 24, 2005 in the Greenville News. If you don't feel like reading the article then here is a quick summary:
The Spartanburg lawyer-business executive said her "Diverse Provider Model" is built around utilization of outside education managers with proven track records of turning around poorly performing schools.
The objective would be "to infuse troubled districts and schools with new thinking, innovative techniques and a heightened focus on improving academic performance," she said in a press release.
First off, I'm not a big believer at all in these "outside private contracts." A lot of times these "Outsiders" are just people who put out pie in the sky ideas. If we're just going to hire outside private contractors, then anybody can be and hold the position of Superintendent of Education. Honestly, we shouldn't even bother having an election for it right now if this is whats to come. She's admitting in that statement that she does not know what to do. She's admitting before she ever gets elected that she doesn't know what to do and that she will cost us a fortune to hire these people. I feel like as voters, we should know before we vote which "outsiders" she plans on bringing in. One way to avoid that future big mess is to bring in somebody that knows what to do, and that is Jim Rex.
Note to the Karen Floyd Campaign
If you're just going to hire "outsiders" to come in and do the work for you, then don't tell us right now because this will impact you getting beat in November. By the way, I'm still laughing hysterically at what I read 2 paragraphs ago ........ Diverse Provider Model!!! haha
9 comments:
The outsiders will probably be people who work under Howard Rich
Actually, this isn't a bad idea, and, in fact, the department is currently doing this.
Inez Tenenbaum currently has teachers from India working in Allendale.
Inez has teachers from India because we can't get any American to move to Allendale. Allendale is a very sad situation, one which I hope in my heart will become better.
This Floyd idea is stale though. If you want to talk about "underperforming" schools look at Brentwood Middle and Burke High in Charleston. They are probably two of the worst schools in the state, maybe the two worst. Students at the juvenile detention schools have a brighter future than someone currently at Burke. Both schools have tried exactly what Floyd is trying to prescribe and it has had no impact other than a waste of money.
Bringing in another "specialist" plumber to try to unclog the drains will do nothing when the pipes are burst.
SC schools need alot more than a politician right now.
Mike, I think you've identified about a dozen thinks that make Floyd the dead-wrong choice to be the next superintendent of education. Talk about a flip-flopper, Ms. Floyd can't seem to make up her mind about much anything, whether it is her political party, her marriage, or her view on public education. Do you think South Carolinians recognize the dangers of electing the anti-educator to such an important post?!
"thinks" should be "things," and while we are on the subject, Inez is doing everything in her power to hire qualified teachers in areas of the state where they are the hardest to recruit. If a quilified Indian, Chinese, Italian, Morrocan, or any other kind of teacher wants to teach in some of our troubled districts, then I say, more power to them.
Outsourcing can, at times, be effective. But, it is not a cure all, or even a cure most of the time.
All this would do is open up another way for tax money to be shifted into well conected corporate hands.
Within a few months of the start up of a large scale plan of this type an system we would see Haliburton coming in to pick up all kinds of contracts to provide mamagement services etc.
and in a few years we would again see little to no improvement.
I worked in Allendale for two years, and this is why I will never be a supporter of vouchers. Those folks have very little "choice" and if they did, they would not have transportation to get there. Besides, the private schools in that area are not, (even if they wanted to do so and I don't believe they would ever want to), equipped to handle the public school children- resources,
facilities, etc.
Vouchers! What a joke. This is just an excuse to give taxpayer money to those citizens who utilize the private/parochial schools. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
I worked in Allendale for two years, and this is why I will never be a supporter of vouchers. Those folks have very little "choice" and if they did, they would not have transportation to get there. Besides, the private schools in that area are not, (even if they wanted to do so and I don't believe they would ever want to), equipped to handle the public school children- resources,
facilities, etc.
Vouchers! What a joke. This is just an excuse to give taxpayer money to those citizens who utilize the private/parochial schools. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
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