Friday, January 25, 2008

Hijacking the futures of Greenville County students

Hijacking the futures of our Students

I would like to know what is happening to the people of Greenville County SC.
We are sitting on our hands and letting the Greenville County Superintendent of education hijack the futures of our sons and daughters.
Greenville County School Superintendent Penny Fisher knows the she is heading a failing system and she does not care as long as she is paid 200,000 dollars a year and does not go against the Board of Education even when she knows they are wrong.
Give the Board of Education and the school superintendent an F for educating our students.
The board and the school superintendent hate success in any public school.
The Charter High School located on the Greenville Technical College campus is a perfect example of their contempt for success in any public school in Greenville County.
While all of the Greenville County public schools are furnished buses, meals for the poor, money for the utilities and maintenance personnel for the public schools, Charter High school does not receive any of these necessities.
THIS IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE, GREENVILLE TECH'S CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL IS DOING A LOT MORE FOR A LOT LESS
Hoorah for Mr Crawford and his staff
Mr. Crawford is doing a great job of hiring the best teachers, instilling the desire for the students to learn and the pride his teachers have in teaching all of the students.
Does anyone think this may have something to do with Charter High school being rated number 15 on the best one hundred high schools in America.
I am of the opinion that if the superintendent of education and the Greenville County school board wanted the students of this county to have a successful future they would take some valuable lessons from Mr. Crawford and the teachers at the Greenville Tech Charter high school and insist that the rest of the county's schools start direct teaching instead of being the manager of their attitudes in a diverse society.
Being the most popular student in a multi cultured society will not land you in a good college or a good paying job.
Employers want people that are able to think and to read and able to write,
Greenville County schools are at the very bottom of the national list when it comes to academic standings, but we are the highest in the nation when it comes to high school dropouts. Greenville County school principles should be held accountable for the education the students are getting in their schools and they should be terminated if they are running a failing school. We are failing our students and when we do that we are failing America.
The Greenville County school system is not teaching our students, they are dummying them down. For instance, there are 16 and 17 year olds who cannot read and write.
Teachers that are not proficient in the subjects they are teaching.
When the principles hire a teacher to teach science and he/she is not able to set up a lab to test the students, the principle and the teacher should be sent packing.
The citizens of Greenville County have but a few voices on the school board who sincerely wants the students to succeed in school and be ready for entrance into any college or university they choose to attend.
These few friends of the students are almost always outvoted on any issue if it favors the student in their quest for an education.
South Carolina is the high school drop out capital of the United States and the only people who are happy about this is the special interest groups that make big money for recruiting corporations that move here to Greenville County to hire employees at the lowest possible pay.
We the people have a name for our school system it’s called Educational Operation NO TRUST.
The Greenville County school administrators like to boast about having the states largest school district; they say nothing about the states largest educational failure.

The Greenville County school board’s favorite son,

Bobby