According to the Superintendent at the community meeting held last night at Burke...there IS a plan. The new name for the plan is the Peninsula Project. Catchy title. I like it better than the "Reconfiguration Plan." Gotta hope there's no pun intended, but I can't help but think of Mayor Riley. We all know he's not a fan of the "projects."
Supposedly Dr. McGinley has been "working" on this for a few months (???) and will "unveil" it soon??? Sorry, folks. I'm not buying it. Been there...done that...I thought we had learned some lessons from the last chick. You need community involvement, Dr. McGinley. You had the community there last night. Why didn't you present "the plan" to them prior to the meeting and get their feedback at the meeting? Time's a wasting and our kids aren't getting any younger. They need a decent school TODAY. And please don't tell us you're going to expand Buist. We don't want Sallie Ballard's version of Buist. Put Buist in Mt. Pleasant and save the taxpayers the money spent on transporting them over the rivers. We don't want to expand a school full of cheaters. C'mon, Dr. McGinley, show us you're different. Talk to us! You have some incredible community members wanting to be involved in public education. You should be dividing them into different groups and meeting with them regularly. Don't let another 10 weeks pass us by. We're waiting...
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Dr. McGinley is unwilling to address the cheaters at Buist Academy. I really had high hopes for her. Can anyone cut their strings from the political bs of this town?
Transparency means you've got nothing to hide and you trust the people you are serving. How can she expect us to be honest with her if she is withholding information from the public? She's a public official. She has to learn to trust the people she serves. If not, it's a lost cause from the beginning. If she wants downtown residents to support her, she has to be transparent with them. No surprises. Though she may be the author of this new version of a long line of since shelved proposals, she needs to remember that the Peninsula Project isn't hers...it's ours. And no plan will work unless she gives the entire community an opportunity to buy into it. That's a basic rule in good public administration...she should already know that.
Toya Green is Charleston's shame. I can't believe she wasn't even present at the community meeting at Burke. What was she doing? Making sure her daughter was up-to-date with her required reading from Buist??
To the 9/14 poster:
Are you actually using CCSD and tranparency in the same paragraph? Remember, Dr. McGinley works for Gregg...oops, I mean CCSD.
Nope. Dr. McGinley works for us...ordinary, taxpaying citizens. The county school board and its members are merely our elected representatives. OK, that's enough. The fairy tale's over.
There wasn't enough time for all the questions because McGinley started this meeting 20 minutes late. Looks like she learned one thing from her "Broad Sister"
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