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Poor management in the public schools is the result of the tail (superintendant) wagging the dog (school board). Too many school board members act like the superintendant is their boss, when in reality, he is their employee. The school board members are the elected policy makers sent their by the voters to run the school system. The superintendant is their chief bureaucrat. Many of our Beaufort County School Board members are little more than yes-men or yes-women to superintendant Cheeseman, and that badly needs to change if we are to get out of the rut we are in.

Proper management would include setting expectations for school improvement and basing any raises on meeting those standards. For the central office and superintendant that should include scores districtwide increasing to the expected level. If not, no raise for them. For each school, there should be a similar arrangement for principles and assistants for improving the scores of that school. Teachers are paid less, so they should probably get a cost of living raise, but should get a bonus or a further raise if their class exceeds the expected levels. Reward success and punish failure. That is the only way our schools will improve.

Commented: Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 @ 4:28 pm By: John Steed

I would bet that if we cut everyone in the school system's salary by 65%, the reading scores would go up and fast!

I know that everyone reading here knows that if we accept mediocrity, we reap mediocrity. WHY doesnt those running our school system know this?

Commented: Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 @ 1:14 pm By: Washingtonian

We are doing really good here in Beaufort County, compared to big cities like Chicago, which has a reading proficiency of 27% of students. Beaufort County is all the way up to 35%. Whoopee! That means 65% are not. Why is that?

Commented: Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 @ 11:22 am By: Buzz Cayton

if you try to justify the lynching of African Americans in the the US - you just might be a red neck.

www.theguardian.com

Commented: Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 @ 9:56 am By: Big Bob

Hanging was generally the end part of the lynching, following the kangaroo court that authorized the hanging. Lynch's name was associated with the whole process, but the name was applied due to his kangaroo court preceding the hanging.

The case you refer to of bestiality appears to have gone through a more formal and legal court process, although the prosecutors seem to have been of the same ilk as Jack Smith, Alvin Bragg, and Fani Willis, and the judge a forerunner of Merchan or Engoron of New York.

Commented: Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 @ 8:05 pm By: Rino Hunter

Let's look at the history of "lynching". The first victims were white British loyalists in Virginia during the Revolutionary War. A low level judge or magistrate named Lynch began kangaroo court type procedings to hang white British loyalists, and when other anti-British Virginians began doing it, they coined the term "lynching" This is actually a pretty good analogy to what is being done to President Trump right now.

And the first mass lynching of black people? That happened, not in the Confederate States, but in New YOrk City in 1863 at the height of the Draft Riots. Yankee civilians, unhappy that LIncoln was drafting them into his army started a mass riot and took it out on black folks by hanging them. The blacks were targeted by the yankee mob for lynching because LIncoln had changed his narrative from "preserve the union" to "free the slaves".

It would help if you learned some real history instead of your far left narrative, Bobbie. Those narrative often do not give one the full facts.

Commented: Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 @ 4:40 pm By: Rino Hunter

The commie thing is so old. Good lord anyone who doesn't subscribe to white supremacy thing is a commie. MLK was called a commie...
Nobody believes that anymore..

Commented: Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 @ 3:38 pm By: Big Bob

The Biden Democrats are trying to do the very same thing here in the US to thwart our First Amendment right of free speech. They tried to set up a government run "Ministry of Truth" when Biden set up a "disinformation board" but a public outcry forced them to back down. The Biden Democrats have connived with Big Tech to censor the free speech of Americans and that issue is now before the Supreme Court in a lawsuit filed by the Attorneys General of Missouri and Louisiana. One of Biden's SCOTUS appointees in that case stated she was worried about the First Amendment hamstringing the government, but apparently did not comprehend that is exactly what it was intended to do.

The problem is not just at the federal level, as there are attempts in some heavily Democrat states to crush free speech with "hate speech" laws. This always comes from the Democrats, not the Republicans.

The Trump administration had a very good record on free speech, and the Biden administration a bad one.

Commented: Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 @ 3:57 pm By: Steven P. Rader

There have been sexual assault problems with the thousands of unvetted Afghans that Biden let in to the US after his chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. Now Biden wants to take in some of the one million Afghan migrants that Pakistan is in the process of mass deportation back to their home country. No wonder that Pakistan does not want them. Why should we?

Commented: Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 @ 1:33 pm By: borderhawk

Deflecting, Bolshevik Bob? Watching the crooked "lawfare" lynch mob that is after Trump and his allies, it is clear in current America the dangerous divid in our legal system is political division, not economic division.

I am waiting for a special prosecutor in the next administration on election interference to start indicting and prosecuting the Jack Smiths, the Juan Merchans, the Letitia James, the Judge Engerons, the Fani Willis, the Alvin Braggs of the country including others who work with them. Election interference through lawfare needs to be so severely punished that it does not tarnish our democracy ever again.

Commented: Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 @ 11:20 am By: Rino Hunter

While we have now a second Central American president, together with El Salvador, who want to do something to stop illegal immigration to the US, we still have a traitor in our own presidency, Biden, who is pushing open borders. Sadly, when Panama gets this route shut down, Biden will probably just step up flying them in illegally.

Commented: Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 @ 10:50 am By: borderhawk