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posted by MetroNEA at 1:10 PM
Metropolitan Nashville Education Association
posted by MetroNEA at 1:10 PM
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Although I had high hopes when the new board members were elected last August, I have become even more disappointed in them than in the last board. There is no bold leadership among that group. They, like past board members, are simply taking the information given to them by the administration and not questioning much of anything. They continue to operate in a vacuum, a vacuum in which all dissenting views has been sucked away. They need to, first, obtain the input of those with another view and, two, validate that input and then give it as much weight as they give the information given to them by Dr. Garcia. With Dr. Johnson about to leave we can only hope that the board seizes the opportunity to "step up to the plate" and hold Garcia's feet to the fire.
Many of us had high hopes last August that the new board membes would dramatically change the way the board operates. Unfortunately, that has not happened. The board continues to accept whatever the administration says as fact and takes no meaningful efforts to hear "the other side". Until the board does this and validates that input they will continue to only hear one side of the story and the school system will continue to lose the middle class students that have, historically, allowed it to keep from going the way of so many other big city school systems that have simply become a repository of low-achieving, at-risk students that society has cast aside.
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