Last night the Orange County Board of Education appears to have finally made a decision with regard to merging Central and Hillsborough elementary schools - sort of. Well, they’d like people to think they made a decision; actually they decided not to decide – at least not yet.
The good news is that the Board realized it is too late to merge the two schools for the 2007-2008 school year. Even Liz Brown couldn’t convince the other Board members that shuttering HES and forcing parents to find an appropriate school for their children on such short notice was a good idea.
While a merger will not happen this year, the Raleigh News & Observer reports, merging the two schools "is still an option on the table." So, we can expect at least another year of this “process.”
Meanwhile, Shirley Carraway will be alternating between developing a list of "short-term recommendations" for what to do in lieu of merging the two schools and interviewing for her potential next job in Augusta, Georgia. It's going to be a busy 12 days for Shirley.
All the while, the same sub-committee of Board members previously charged to create a process for considering the possibility of maybe merging the two schools will be "consolidating all of the board suggestions for long-term solutions into an option for consideration at the June 18 meeting." Are you ready for some more sub-committee meetings at inconvenient times?
So what do we have to show for four months of fear, uncertainty and doubt?
Not much.
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