The N&R (unposted) follows up the Rhino story on the hiring of a ‘contractor’ to help Eastern Guilford High School principal Gregg Slate monitor discipline problems.
Both publications look at the numbers and determine that —statistically speaking —- Eastern “falls in the middle” among GCS high schools in the number of reported incidents. But the bottom line is Superintendent Mo Green felt the need to address the problem, at the very least from a PR perspective.
And what would a good GCS story be without a little humor:
Monday evening, once Slate and other administrators split parents into four groups, Slate took his group to the school library. Eastern has vaunted “green” features, such as sensors that turn off lights when no one is in a room. The sensor in the library apparently can’t sense a dozen people in the middle of the library, and the lights kept going off. Slate was forced to repeatedly go to the corner of the room and wave his hands at the sensor.
Perhaps if GCS was a little less concerned with going green……
Update:The N&R reports GCS purchasing John Mann has resigned. Chief of Staff Nora Carr “declined to specifiy the reasons for Mann’s departure,” but added “the district is investigating the purchasing department and its practices.”
