It was announced late last week that Orange County School Superintendent Shirley Carraway, who announced her "retirement" earlier this year, will not be stepping directly from her current position in Orange County into a new one in Richmond County, Georgia.
Rather than Dr. Carraway, the "Richmond County Board of Education has chosen Dr. Dana Bedden as the new school Superintendent."
One thing I find interesting has to do with the proposed start date for Richmond County's new hire. "Dr. Bedden says the board asked for August 1." Given that she is slated to remain on the job in Orange County until October, I wonder what Dr. Carraway would have done had they offered her the position and asked for the same start date.
I can only speculate that she would have never looked back as she left Orange County in an even greater jam.
That is neither here nor there (figuratively and literally). But, at least she will still have Greenville.
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If Shirley would be willing to leave Orange County so fast, why does she remain around until October 1?
Answer: Revenge. Shirley is a very vindictive individual who will use her position to her very last day to mess up the lives of Orange County Schools personnel and parents whom she doesn't like.
The Orange County Board of Education should relinquish Shirley of her responsibilities immediately. She is a lame-duck Superintendent with an evil agenda.
Move on. Please, move on. You and Allan should run for the board and give it a shot. Let's see how well you would do.
Just because you do not agree with the lady's suggestions does not make her evil or vindictive. She is not even like that.
You are acting like a bunch of spoiled brats.
Shirley's Kind of People
If you have been paying attention you have noticed that there has been some personnel problems in Orange County Schools. Some people have tried to lay the blame for this at the door of the school board's feet, but personnel issues are the responsibility of the superintendent so aside from the fact the board has not fired Dr. Carraway, these problems were created by her.
There is a rumor that Dr. Carraway's buddy Mamie Jay is going to sue the school system. This is the same Mamie Jay that packed her office under cover of darkness and hurled racial epithets over her shoulder as she abandoned her school, its parents and children the week before End of Grade tests and headed back to that bastion of racial tolerance, Durham NC. As far as anyone knows, she was never fired, let go or anything else. It is clear now that, as columnist Rick Kennedy put it, "she should be fired, then fired again, and then fired some more for pulling such a stunt." Now she wants to sue the system, presumably for racial discrimination or some such unbelievable nonsense.
This is the type of person Shirley Carraway hires.
Now take the most recent character type found in the Carraway Administration: the Assassinated Type. Dr. Carraway has undermined the principal at OHS since the day she arrived and now she has finally got him. She gave the school too many students, too few teachers, too few little repair attention, and blamed it all on the principal. All the while this white male has given his heart and soul to OHS. When a crazed gunman attacked OHS just last year it was the principal and the staff that proudly serve with him that helped avoid the use of body bags on campus. He has garnered massive support for a variety of programs and has assured that OHS remains a safe academic haven in and otherwise unsettled world. The vocational education programs at OHS produce talented, skilled Americans whose jobs cannot be outsourced.
Recently, one of the Board members who voted to remove Jeff without ever visiting him at OHS approached him at OHS graduation and attempted to assuage her guilt at his removal. This act of utter classlessness was executed in front of another board members and several of the staff of OHS. A lesser man might have given this person a piece of his mind, but he appeared to move away from the situation and later delivered a touching address to the 2007 class of graduates. He never let them know about the deceit, the hate, and the conniving that cost him the job that he always wanted above all else. The day belonged to the Class of 2007.
This is the kind of person Shirley Carraway fires.
Whether she moves on to retirement, Augusta, or whatever her story-of-the-day is we can only hope that there is still goodwill towards the people and students of Orange County and pray that the next Superintendent cares about them. It will be up to the Board to do that. The fact that too few of them realize the kind of person they were dealing with does not bode well for Orange County.
This is becoming a vehicle for some board members to anonymously post their rhetoric. Allan, please shut this blog down.
Leave Dr. Scare-away alone. Just be happy that she has "come to grips" that it is time to go to the greener pastures of Pitt County. May we all salute her.
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