The School Board From Another Planet

Many of you have heard me go on and on about the ridiculousness our local school system (Wake County) has put this community and our children through in the last three years.  I registered Devlyn for kindergarten as a first time parent in the middle of an educational shit-storm.  Noone could tell us where our child was going to go to school and they changed the rules on us 3 times in the 6 months between registration and Devlyn's first day of kindergarten.  At that time, our school board was in the throws of an epic partisan battle, was being sued by the NAACP, our high schools were (and still are) in danger of losing accreditation and our county made national headlines repeatedly for everything from civil rights violations to outright asinine stupidity.  Luckily for us, we made some good, albeit scary, decisions at just the right time and got Devlyn into the school we wanted, an absolutely awesome school where he's thriving.  The county got a new superintendent of schools and things were looking up.  He brought about a lot of good change, made decisions to cut in places other than the classroom and took the heat like a man when some of those decisions backfired.  And THEN the board fired him in a closed session this past Tuesday for reasons unbeknownst to anyone!  I don't even know what to say at this point except what the fuck?!?  People (including me) are outraged, we're screaming about it at the supermarket, launching social media firestorms, picketing outside the school board offices, etc.  And at the end of the day, the only losers here are the kids.  Our schools will take a HUGE hit b/c of this.  A brand new year-round middle school right up the road we were hoping was to be built by the time Devlyn finishes elementary probably won't be built now along with several others...and the list goes on.  Here's an article from the News & Observer today that puts a nice dent in chronicling the complete insanity that is the Wake County School Board at this point.  Politics have no place in our public education system.  These people are CRAZY.

http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/09/27/2373617/wheeler-the-school-board-from.html