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| Superintendent Dr. Casey Wardynski answers questions from the press following Thursday night's Huntsville school board meeting. (The Huntsville Times/Michael Mercier) |
Why is it when a longtime HCS teacher is accused of violating district policy, everyone immediately calls for her (or his) head, but when a private company does the same thing, or usually something far worse, everyone rushes to defend it? This is indeed The Pinnacle of Hypocrisy.
Why is it when student's, alumni, and any number of councilmen and officials call to inform the Superintendent he is making a gargantuan mistake changing the name of Lee High School, he acknowledges his mistake and backtracks on his proposal, but when J.O.Johnson High School alumni and students protest, and any number of councilmen and officials call to inform him he is making a gargantuan mistake changing the name of Johnson High School, he violates district policy and changes the name of not just Johnson but Davis Hills Middle School too? This is indeed the Pinnacle of Hypocrisy.Pinnacle is a privately run alternative campus that often takes in children who’ve been expelled from Huntsville City Schools.
Huntsville city has no direct authority or oversight of pinnacle
Last night the Huntsville City School Board of Education violated their own policy on the Selection of School, Facility, and/or Property Name (Policy 2.9, presented September 5, 2013) by concluding the process and voting on the new names approximately three weeks before they were allowed to do so.Why is it public officials, and citizens expressed environmental concerns about unsafe traffic patterns, heavy trucks sharing roads with school buses, and air quality at two schools located two miles from an active rock quarry in New Hope, but those same officials say the air quality is safe at two schools located less than half a mile from an active rock quarry? This is indeed the Pinnacle of Hypocrisy.
Other elected officials speaking against the quarry were Mark Russell, president of Huntsville City Council, Madison County District 3 Commissioner Eddie Sisk, state Sen. Paul Sanford, state Sen. Shadrack McGill, state Rep. Wayne Johnson, Gurley Mayor Rob Sentell, Gurley Councilman Robert Wren.So much hypocrisy, so little time.
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Where in any of those articles does it say that it was Pinnacle school policy to beat the children? Where in any of those articles does it put blame on the school? I don't see any rush to defend the school in either of those articles. The guard who beat the child was charged with a crime. Not sure what happened after charges were filled. But from what you posted, I don't see where there is any hypocrisy going on in that case.
Also, did the J.O. Johnson students get up and walk out of class in protest of the name change like the Lee students did? I have seen nothing about students protesting the J.O. Johnson name change.
And once again, if the school board does not consider this being a school being moved but two schools being closed and a new school replacing both schools at the time, they are not violating their policies. Even if Butler stays open now, it does not mean that they violated their policies if their intent was to merge two schools at the time.
IF there is any hypocrisy with the school being too close to the quarry, it's not with the Huntsville City Schools. I didn't read about any school board member or employees that spoke against the Gurley quarry. There is not any hypocrisy anyhow. The air quality in around the quarry in North Huntsville is not an unknown. The trucks from the quarry and school buses from local schools have shared the roads in North Huntsville for quite some time now.
If it's not hypocrisy what is it?
If it was hypocrisy, it would be Huntsville City School board member speaking out about the New Hope Quarry while approving the New North Huntsville High School.
If it was hypocrisy, it would be Wardynski refusing to keep the name of J.O. Johnson High School after the students walked out after allowing Lee High School to keep its name after its students walked out.
If it was hypocrisy, another teacher caught helping a student and not being penalized.
But from what I have read from your links, it was not Pinnacle School policy that the student was beat but it was the security guard and he has been charged and is going to trial. Haven't read anybody defending what he did.
I haven't seen anything about the students at Johnson High walking out in protest of the name change. In fact I haven't seen anything that says the students are upset, only the alumni.
Hypocrisy is saying one thing and doing another. Nothing you listed was hypocrisy. At best you might have hypocrisy with some local officals but not with the HCS.
Why am I not surprised you don't/can't/won't acknowledge the hypocrisy?
Here is a list of hypocrisy
http://listverse.com/2013/10/20/10-breath-taking-examples-of-government-hypocrisy/
You don't present any hypocrisy. You presented behaviors from different groups that if they came from one group might be hypocrisy.
The topic of this post is hypocrisy and Huntsville City School. Off topic comments will be deleted. Go peddle right wing talking points on your own blog.
All I did was give you an example of actual hypocrisy in regards to school policy.
I don't acknowledge hypocrisy in the examples you listed because there isn't hypocrisy in the examples you listed in regards to the Huntsville City Schools.
Your first example of the teacher being suspended and the security guard beating the student is not hypocrisy because both were punished for violating a school policy.
Wardynski was still going to change the name of Lee High School until the students themselves protested by leaving school during the middle of the day and after that show of force by the student body did Wardynski relent and let Lee High School keep its name. Has there been such an uprising by the Johnson student body?
Are Mark Russell, president of Huntsville City Council, Madison County District 3 Commissioner Eddie Sisk, state Sen. Paul Sanford, state Sen. Shadrack McGill, state Rep. Wayne Johnson, Gurley Mayor Rob Sentell, Gurley Councilman Robert Wren part of Huntsville City School? Have they made contradictory statements in regards to Jamison High School?
Hypocrisy is saying one thing and doing another. It's claiming to believe one thing and doing something contrary to that belief.
I stand by every word I wrote. There more than a whiff of hypocrisy.
Typo should read: There is more than a whiff of hypocrisy.
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