I did watch part of the Guilford County Board of Education meeting last night, but I missed the board’s vote to fund 13 administrative positions, so I’m relying on Brian Ewing’s account in today’s N&R.
Ewing writes that the passing the motion “didn’t come easily,” yet it still passed by a 9-2 vote, with only Garth Hebert and Darlene Garrett voting against. That means the majority of board members spoke out before simply giving up and voting to fund more central office educrats instead of returning money to the schools. Such board members would include Kris Cooke, who said “we need to put some of this money into additional teachers” before voting ‘yes,’ and Paul Daniels, who’s been doing a good job of questioning the administration’s crunchy numbers.
That’s not good. Which brings me back to Deena Hayes’s comments last night that “pure racist ideology” fueled the uproar over President Obama’s speech to school children. Thinking about it now, I find it interesting that not one fellow board member challenged that extreme view. Then again, it’s been like that for years.
