Jul 23 2008
Charleston School Board Fails to Pass Behavior Plan
The Charleston County School Board failed on Monday night to revise a policy that would regulate the behavior of its members.
Schools Superintendent Nancy McGinley also fell short on her pledge to ask the board to discuss inconsistencies in the board’s address-verification policy that treats Buist Academy differently than other magnet schools.
On the issue of board members’ conduct, the board was set to amend an existing policy as a result of an incident involving board member Arthur Ravenel Jr. and McGinley in which he used the word “bitch” and reportedly threatened her job.
It would seem to me this Stalinist plan was nothing more than a way to keep certain board members from expressing their honest opinions because it might be too politically incorrect for the ears of the wusses on the school board.
Instead of a behavior plan for board members, how about the students? Maybe the school board should actually worry about the public schools failing our children instead of dealing with petty political bickering.
