If you schedule a meeting, purportedly to answer a group's questions, don't you think you should attend with the intent of actually answering those questions?
Of course that would make sense, but maybe that is why such an idea is lost on our Board of Education.
According to the Raleigh News & Observer, members of the Board attending the meeting hosted by the HES PTA don't plan to actually answer parents' questions.
"The Orange County school board members made it clear at a meeting Monday that they don't intend to have all the answers at upcoming community meetings about merging Central and Hillsborough elementary schools. Chairman Dennis Whitling said he thinks some parents mistakenly thought that any questions presented to the board ahead of time would be answered at the meetings."
If you don't plan to answer parents' questions at these meetings, tell me again why you are bothering to come at all.
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When I read that the board is hosting listening sessions, I envisioned the parents and staff sitting in the audience with duct tape over their mouths. That is the only way they are going to keep us quiet.
Dennis Whitling has the audacity to say that there will be no Q&A sessions, only information gathering here. Don't you think they should have gathered information before they decided to pass the merger?
How dare you Mr. Whitling! You work for us and you must listen to us. You are a servant to your community. Again, you need to listen to us!
Can you hear me now?
Why are we here? Very good question. This matters on who you ask. From an HES parent's perspective, I am here to preserve our school of choice. I am here because I see no benefit for the current CES children from having this mass merger. We need to not have some grandiose plan that ignores the small details: each specific child. Sure, it looks good to the people at the international coffee shop. The plan may look good to our nothern elitist friends. It may also look good to the PHD's who have no children. However, the plan is bad because it ignores the fundamental problem within our society--the family unit.
What is next? Efland Cheeks is being totally ignored. Out of sight, out of mind. That is an insult to these families. I wonder if the News & Observer knows that Efland Cheeks is not AYP, but nothing has been done to correct it! No plan, no strategy, nothing. Nothing, that is, until October 1st, when our all-knowing and all-wise Dr. Carraway leaves us for the green pasture in Eastern North Carolina.
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