Is the proposed Lee High School name change a weapon of mass distraction?

I am beginning to suspect it is. Use the media to get people all riled up about trivial stuff so the real stuff can be pushed on through.

There are 3 items on tonight's Huntsville City School board agenda;
Proposed Lee High School name change
Removing the present principal at Lee High School
Approving the $500,000 Teach for America contract.

I turn the floor over to Havealittletalk New Century+Lee=?What

I may be totally off-base here, but I am worried that there are more surprises in store for Lee High than having its name changed.

First, I have been opposed to moving New Century to Lee or anywhere outside Research Park since I first read of the so-called demographer’s recommendations. I wrote to Dr. Wardynski:

Tell the Board to strike this recommendation. Remind them that they hired you to solve problems, not to create new ones; that it is foolish to make a change that would do no good and may well do harm; and that when people and programs are working well, sometimes – often, perhaps — the best thing to do is to stay out of their way and let them get on with it.

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And Geek Pavaler Evaluating Teach for America

Thanks to several good researchers (and friends!), I have been reviewing an independent evaluation of the efficacy of the Teach for America teachers that the board heard a recommendation for on October 11th. My initial assessment of the presentation, unlike that of the board, was that paying Teach for America $550,000 to hire 110 uncertified teachers (especially when the system just finished laying off 154 teachers in the spring), was not worth the money.
Yet because we’re living in a time when teachers are insulted, mocked, and dismissed as incapable of doing anything at all other than “stealing money from the public,” it’s important to evaluate the performance of the Teach for America teachers as well. (Yes, there are actually people who believe that paying teachers $36,144 a year to educate our children is too much. Paying a teacher one dollar an hour, per child is too much. But I digress.) As such, a more extensive evaluation of how Teach for America teachers perform compared with certified teachers is an important comparison.

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So, while public and media attention is on the name change Lee High is being dismantled and untrained teachers will be hired to mis-educate the students who need an education the most.

SMH