Why You Should Care Mr. Crabill has found quite the acolyte in Director Chandra Hampson. In the course of discussions over SOFG, she says his name over and over, "A.J .says we...." Now that's not too surprising given the direction the district is heading and that it is Mr. Crabill's work with the Council of Great City Schools is how we got here. But it appears that Mr. Crabill is working very closely with Hampson and we know she wields some amount of power over the majority of the Board. Mr. Crabill is going to continue to work with the Board as SOFG is instituted in SPS. In fact, his role may become more public as it did at one SPS Board meeting in the spring where he was on the phone during the meeting and suggested the Board stop the meeting to "self-reflect." I also noticed that in a district in South Carolina, when things weren't going to plan, he blamed the Board for not following SOFG to the letter. Look for that to happen here if Board members w
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I realize this is just a stunt, but it's a pretty annoying one when the state education system has so many serious issues right now.
one child, (her own) about
Discovery Math and entered the
child's opinion into the court
record to give the impression the
"Director" performed due diligence.
If the child of the "Director" is
able to influence a district wide
decision I applaud the notion
that students should vote for
their school board representative.
Hope they're not spending a lot of time on this when there are really huge issues (like budget!) to deal with.
There will always be 'budget issues' to distract us from civic rights: Real democratic Representation IS what these young citizens deserve, and when their parents/elected leaders/school boards neglect to represent them with fairness and responsibility, they SHOULD petition the government with grievances (and potential solutions).
Take the 'school board election' focus out of the argument, and this could be a stirring child-advocacy & solid voter rights issue with broader scope effect and appeal.