An Open Letter to the Huntsville City Schools Board of MisEducation

Dear Members of the Huntsville City Schools Board of Education,

In the Sunday, January 29,2012, edition of The Huntsville Times, school board member David Blair is quoted as saying the superintendent is doing what he was hired to.  That may be true, however, the current members of the Board of Education aren't doing what WE THE VOTERS hired YOU to do.  

I recently attended a community luncheon where table conversation turned to the  sad, sorry, state of the Huntsville City School System.  Adjectives such as cold-blooded, Hitler, mean-spirited, harda$$, Gestapo and clueless are just a few of the adjectives used to describe HCS superintendent Casey Wardynski.  To make a long story short, we didn't hire YOU for you to hire someone like this.

We didn't hire you so you could hire someone who would privatize public education and wage war on public school administrators, teachers and support personnel.  Board President Laurie McCaulley is also quoted in the article saying she has heard positive feedback from some of the principals in the district.  Oh really?  What Principals?   

We didn't hire you so you could hire someone who would close down the Fletcher E. Seldon Progress Center and fuel the cradle to prison pipeline.

Red flag alert: “Students would be referred to the program by a designated representative of the school system.” Really. I wonder which socio-economic and racial populations would land at Pinnacle. Would you expect a program that chooses its participants by “a designated representative of the school system” rather than through publicly available guidelines to be equitably available to all?

We didn't hire you so you become real estate brokers and sell off valuable property for "in-kind services" to nonprofit agencies.

We didn't hire you so you could balance the budget on the backs of our children.

We didn't hire you so you could hire someone who would double our legal fees while cutting special education funding and not keep their promises.

We didn't hire you so you could refuse to address our concerns, or answer our questions.

We didn't hire you so you could hire someone who paid the former superintendent almost $300,000.00 to sit at home while continuing to hire aides for himself.

Casey Wardinski  may be doing what you hired him to do, but you aren't doing what we hired you to do.

I have a strong feeling ALL of YOU will be FIRED in the near future.  That's not a threat.  It's a promise.    It's not wise to ignore  your employers.

Sincerely,
RedEye


PS  Huntsville Times reporters, how about asking Laurie McCaulley to name names of the principals who support the plan?  How about talking directly to the taxpayers and see what they have to say about the present state of the school system?  How about talking to the students and see what they have to say?  Is it too much to ask for some fair and balanced coverage of the HCS system?