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?  

RedEye's Wednesday Whine

Because it's not a bunch of people calling President Obama a Kenyan/ Muslim/Socialist/Anti Christ, you won't see it on TeeVee or read about it in the newspaper, but Wall Street is being occupied by protestors....

The point of Occupy Wall Street is that the political process and culture of the United States is broken, that a lot of people know that its broken, and that the anger has gotten to the point that folks want to deal with it.

What do you want to bet if it were the Tea Party being pepper sprayed there would be wall to wall outrage? Since it's just a bunch of tree hugging/hippy/liberals it's OK because they deserve it. *snark*

The don't deserve the pepper spray because in the current security state (and New York understandably is more in lock down than most cities), just holding a march in the street is illegal. An event permit to assemble for anything in NY costs $4200. That's a high price for freedom to assemble.

Speaking of Wall Street...the latest media made Great White Hope, New Jersey Governor Chris Christy is a former Wall Street Lobbyist. But that's OK.

Please, Gov. Christie, run for president! I so want to talk about how, as you put it, you never even set foot in the Trenton state house until you were elected -- even though you were the NJ statehouse lobbyist for the Securities Industry Association, the Wall Street trade association, under Bernie Madoff.

What's that you say...White liberals are whining whiners too? I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you. Not.

Racism isn't responsible for the president's drop in popularity. His right-wing policies are

If it's not racism...what is it?

This truth is everywhere. You can see it in black unemployment rates, which are twice as high as white unemployment rates -- a disparity that persists even when controlling for education levels. You can see it in a 2004 MIT study showing that job-seekers with "white names receive 50 percent more callbacks for interviews" than job seekers with comparable résumés and "African American-sounding names." And you can see it in a news media that looks like an all-white country club and a U.S. Senate that includes no black legislators.

Sweet Home Alabama. Where the skies are blue and the people in power care more about what you read than if you can read.

The New York Times reports that Mark Melvin, an Alabama inmate, has sued the state for denying him the right to read “Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II.” Penned by Douglas A. Blackmon, the senior national correspondent at the Wall Street Journal, the book won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction in 2009.

Melvin, who is serving a life sentence at Kilby Correctional Facility just outside of Montgomery, filed the suit in federal court against the prison’s officials and the Alabama commissioner of corrections, claiming they have unjustly kept a book out of his hands.

Maybe that's why the Huntsville City School System is on the fast road to recovery because they are balancing the budget on the backs of children. But don't whine about it.

11% of the student population is responsible for 61% of the cuts.

RedEye Whine over and out....until next time.