For all LPS's talk about welcoming private partnerships and donations and crying about how charter schools have an unfair financial advantage, I was told by multiple sources stories about a travesty of hypocrisies.
Money was REFUSED from an outside party to a particular school. Well maybe if one twists the words just right some people can maintain it wasn't actually refused. Instead the hurdles placed in the stated process were so burdensome that the donating party felt troubled and unwelcome.
Instead of being thanked for their generosity and commitment to better education, they were told that tkat the SCHOOL COMMITTEE first had to APPROVE the donation. The DONATING party felt the process too burdensome so they failed to follow through this time unlike in years past.
Havin followed the LSC for five years, I don't recall any instance where such procedural hoops were put in play. Quoting our honorable MAYOR, usually acceptance is granted using the "WAYBACK MACHINE" and the Secretary of the School Committee is instructed to generate the appropriate expression of gratitude.
Also I learned of a longtime volunteer (no it wasn't me) who was cast aside and staff were instructed to refuse to allow him admission into the school. If these details are remotely true not are they insulting but call into question the integrity of certain administrative officials.
I have been told that the super has refused to allow school staff at a particular high school to apply for grants for specific resources because another high school does not have those resources. The end result was the staff member applied for grants for both schools so they both could have said resources. Why is the super and other admin refusing money? She needs to go before she does any more damage to our school system.
ReplyDeleteI am famialar with the incident you are talking about, don't you think it's very hypocritical that there ended up being a discrepancy in the amount of funding and resources provided to those two high schools.
ReplyDeleteEverything Ford School accomplished under Dr. Crane has been taken away, and under new rules, the garden has been taken away from the Highlands Coalition. They claim we will be involved somehow. 18 free programs at Ford is gone. Ford could have been part of a program similar to the Harlem Children's Zone in NY. Instead the school no longer serves the neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteInstead it serves as an attractive target, fashioned to secure more funding to attract more money for high-paying administrative jobs justified by the calculated failure of the children.
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