I get the need to live here, but in this case it is just reflective of her limited managerial abilities and all around general lack of impressiveness.
Does she not know the name of the school because she doesn't live here? Or is it because she isn't prepared/willing to do the work/or something else?
This was the same with Horton. His emails were replete with grammatical errors. He consistently got facts wrong and was generally a poor communicator.
If you compare him and Turner to Goren or Murphy it isn't even close.
There is a sloppiness that permeates the whole enterprise. I know people push back when there are comments about the Board's attire. But when you combine that with the incompetent way they have run things, I think it is a valid critique and is emblematic of a lack of seriousness that they bring to public service.
I hire people all the time in my job. And if someone came to an interview wearing a ratty baseball cap like Biz or a hoodie like Sergio I would immediately discount their seriousness. When we get emails from prospective employees that are ridden with errors or if they didn't know the name of something important during an interview, they would be discounted.
If you are making a quarter of a million dollars a year and running a school district, the least you could do memorize the names of the schools.
To give some insight, Ryan gave a DEI presentation to our school's PTA that talked about how traditional views of professionalism such as civil discourse, adherence to policies and procedures, being analytical, and grammatical proficiency, were rooted in white supremacy. She emphasized we should not strive for or expect professionalism at all as it is a white supremacy concept and tool to keep people down. I can be open to other characteristics defining competence but to Tom's earlier comment, a lot of this stuff isn't aging well given what has occurred over the last few years with this board and administration.
Again, I think this is why it is important and why Board Policy has language that requires the Superintendent to live here.
I get the need to live here, but in this case it is just reflective of her limited managerial abilities and all around general lack of impressiveness.
Does she not know the name of the school because she doesn't live here? Or is it because she isn't prepared/willing to do the work/or something else?
This was the same with Horton. His emails were replete with grammatical errors. He consistently got facts wrong and was generally a poor communicator.
If you compare him and Turner to Goren or Murphy it isn't even close.
There is a sloppiness that permeates the whole enterprise. I know people push back when there are comments about the Board's attire. But when you combine that with the incompetent way they have run things, I think it is a valid critique and is emblematic of a lack of seriousness that they bring to public service.
I hire people all the time in my job. And if someone came to an interview wearing a ratty baseball cap like Biz or a hoodie like Sergio I would immediately discount their seriousness. When we get emails from prospective employees that are ridden with errors or if they didn't know the name of something important during an interview, they would be discounted.
If you are making a quarter of a million dollars a year and running a school district, the least you could do memorize the names of the schools.
To give some insight, Ryan gave a DEI presentation to our school's PTA that talked about how traditional views of professionalism such as civil discourse, adherence to policies and procedures, being analytical, and grammatical proficiency, were rooted in white supremacy. She emphasized we should not strive for or expect professionalism at all as it is a white supremacy concept and tool to keep people down. I can be open to other characteristics defining competence but to Tom's earlier comment, a lot of this stuff isn't aging well given what has occurred over the last few years with this board and administration.
Do you know if your PTA paid for that presentation?
I think I know where your head's at! But I don't believe so. At least I didn't see an invoice.
OK. Just had to ask. I'm not writing a story on this or implying anything untoward, just wondering.