Well, it's coming down to the final round...or is it? On February 15th at 9:30 am, Judge Scarborough will hear both the complaint filed by members of the District 20 community as well as an appeal filed by those same members when the CCSD board ruled the District 20 board has no jurisdiction over THEIR county-wide magnet school Buist. (Yeah, I know if you believe in following state law, there is NO SUCH THING as a county-wide school UNLESS the constituent board approves each of those transfers).
Now here's the kicker. Read the brief filed by CCSD's attorney Alice Paylor back in the day when CCSD was fighting to avoid a desegregation lawsuit. Ms. Paylor says Charleston County's constituent boards determine attendance lines, not CCSD. She even uses the District 20 board's fight over determining who attends Buist as an example of this. HUH??
Yeah, I thought the same thing, so let's just keep it simple. CCSD used the constituent boards to avoid the lawsuit the US Justice Dept. brought against the District and THEN ignores the constituent boards when they attempt to excercise those responsibilities. Once I get a hard copy of that infamous public document, I'll share some of the quotes with you. Word is there's a copy floating around via e-mail. Hopefully, it'll arrive at my e-mail sooner rather than later.
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It's been an interesting read...Alice states "The evidence shows that the Constituent Boards establish school attendance zones, thereby determining where a child attends a school. While the CCSD's administrators often offer substantial input into the planning of attendance zone changes, it is the Constituent Boards which decide, often after extensive hearings, where the attendance zones will be. This Constituent power was perhaps best illustrated by the District 20 Board's insistence that it, and not the CCSD Board, had the authority to determine student assignments for the magnet school, Buist Academy, because of the school's location in District 20." p.37,38 Appellee's Brief No. 90-1812 and No. 90-1816, US 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, US and Richard Ganaway, II, et. al v. CCSD
Let's see if the same court will let Alice talk out of both sides of her mouth on this issue. I'd like to see just how fast CCSD would shut down the constituent boards all together, once and for all, if they actually had the nerve to say they wanted to look at and change attendance zones downtown. As it stands CCSD send kids any where they want without any input from constituent boards. The real question is this: Will the state court hearing on February 15 look at what CCSD said it was doing in the last suit vs. what it is doing now? If the court is fair, it will see that Alice is two timing the issue and CCSD has violated its own assertions. Buist as CCSD has chosen to run it (contrary to its original claims) is now a pink elephant. It no longer has any legal or moral foundation. CCSD's convoluted efforts to sustain it only undermine the foundations of CCSD and its leadership. The failure to fix one corrupt school while so many others rot is reason enough to consider challenging the moral and professional integrity of everyone involved in the defense of the status quo at Buist.
I guess this is where Alice Paylor and her firm are getting their $600,000 plus salary from CCSD, as David Engelman stated in his letter to the editor today.
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