{"id":10131,"date":"2014-08-31T22:46:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T02:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=10131"},"modified":"2014-08-31T22:46:20","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T02:46:20","slug":"breakdown-danvilles-8212014-school-board-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/31\/breakdown-danvilles-8212014-school-board-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"BreakDown: Danville&#8217;s 8\/21\/2014 School Board Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I promised a BreakDown on last Thursday&#8217;s Danville School Board meeting where the public got to speak about the next superintendent, so let&#8217;s get going with a commentary on what happened.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Danville School Board \u2013 LIVE! (8\/21\/2014)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/21\/danville-school-board-live-8212014\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s the article with the LIVE coverage of the meeting for reference&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to pull out a BreakDown Big Board&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wow. The GW staff changed the cafeteria into a meeting hall quickly and perfectly. I also noticed that the 400 seats were arranged perfectly. They didn&#8217;t have much to pull that off and put the stage up.<\/li>\n<li>The central office staff also set up a very effective sound system along with getting wi-fi in for the media. Not only that, they wanted me to make sure it was working before the meeting started. Nice touch.<\/li>\n<li>Ugh. GW looks like a prison with the iron fencing around it. There&#8217;s no nice way to say that.<\/li>\n<li>I was waiting for the public to pour in because we&#8217;re set for 400 people and there have been so many people &#8220;concerned&#8221; during and after the Ed Newsome &#8220;resignation&#8221;. Thud. Attendance was shameful.<\/li>\n<li>Chairman Ed Polhamus explains the four possible methods of hiring a new superintendent in detail. Steven Gould speaks up and asks what methods were used in the previous searches and gets his answers after various people fill in the blanks. Polhamus&#8217; explanation was very informative.<\/li>\n<li>The public comment section starts with school system employees in heavy support for acting superintendent Kathy Osborne. While they&#8217;re praising her, I&#8217;m looking at the school board&#8217;s reactions to the speeches. Some have polite smiles, a few have non-committal looks and then a few look like they&#8217;d hope the speaker would catch on fire. I&#8217;m not convinced that Osborne has the support of enough school board members (four) to get the job instantly. Even if she did, I don&#8217;t believe that would happen because they&#8217;d go through a small search process anyway.<\/li>\n<li>Greg Hairston&#8217;s respect meter went right back up to where it should be. His speech on behalf of the &#8220;Citizens for Excellence in Education&#8221; group was concise and strong without being aggressive. His speech wasn&#8217;t against Kathy Osborne, but it sure wasn&#8217;t for her. I can&#8217;t get behind his idea for an extensive national search because Danville is not going to attract the Big Players, and even if it did, we couldn&#8217;t afford them.<\/li>\n<li>I want to know who this &#8220;Citizens for Excellence in Education&#8221;. I&#8217;m assuming Carrie Ashe &amp; Doris Wilson are in the group as Hairston and them conferred before and after the speech. Perhaps they&#8217;ll come forward with a membership report soon.<\/li>\n<li>The consensus from these speeches is that the next superintendent should be someone who knows the education system and has the students&#8217; best interest in mind. Since this meeting, two other forums have been held with low attendance and people that say the same thing. Somebody&#8217;s got to say it so I will. No shit, people.<\/li>\n<li>This &#8220;hear from the public about what you want the next superintendent to be&#8221; is a Very Nice Thing to do&#8230; but if the conclusions are &#8220;We want a superintendent who knows the education system.&#8221;, we&#8217;ve accomplished nothing but make the public feels they&#8217;ve been involved. Again, a Very Nice Thing.<\/li>\n<li>Back to the meeting now that pretty much everyone has bailed out, I&#8217;m concerned that a teacher with 25 years of experience would &#8220;Quit without proper notice&#8221;. It&#8217;s too bad that we&#8217;ll never know what happened, but those things just shouldn&#8217;t happen.<\/li>\n<li>Besides that, it&#8217;s just routine stuff. That&#8217;s it.<\/li>\n<li>As we get ready to leave, a thunderstorm pops up and I realize that GW is in serious need of new gutters.<\/li>\n<li>One final thought. Central office staff are now wearing their ID badges so that people can tell who they are. Thanks, yall!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There&#8217;s the BreakDown. Osborne has support from some of the current staff, but I don&#8217;t think will be a compelling factor in the school board&#8217;s final decision. We&#8217;ll be LIVE! at this Thursday&#8217;s regular School Board meeting for our regular comprehensive coverage.<\/p>\n<p>More coming up on SouthsideCentral!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8644\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/13\/breakdown-danville-school-board-election\/sclogo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?fit=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"120,120\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sclogo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?fit=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8644\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?resize=120%2C120\" alt=\"sclogo\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I promised a BreakDown on last Thursday&#8217;s Danville School Board meeting where the public got to speak about the next superintendent, so let&#8217;s get going with a commentary on what happened.<\/p>\n<p> [&#8230;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[101,58,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breakdown","category-danville","category-educationcentral","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwqFk-2Dp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9413,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/18\/breakdown-danville-school-board-7172014-meeting\/","url_meta":{"origin":10131,"position":0},"title":"BreakDown: Danville School Board (7\/17\/2014 Meeting)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"July 18, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"We're continuing our BreakDown analysis and comment article series after every Danville City Council & School Board meeting. 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