Evaluation of School Director
posted by Allen Barrett | 5:56 PM
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84 Comments:
I'd give him a 5.00 - best darn crook in the county!!!!
Shameful. If Mr. Jackson were the crook you guys call him, he would have been out a long time ago. Is it not strange that you haven't been able to dig up the proof?
What would you consider proof & how many dump trucks of it would please you. If you knew right from wrong, we, nor he would be in this mess - he'd be long gone & you'd be running after him.
how many years did Al Capone control Chicago or Hitler control Germany, or Boss Tweed control New York?
Sometimes it takes a long time to treat a cancer.
Exactly what is he graded on? Grades, management skills, I have no idea. Someone fills us in.
Turn your proof over to the legal authorities if you have it. If it's jealousy and resentment, remove the "undesirables" at election time.
Mr. Jackson is obviously very good at what he does. Why is it so hard for most of this blog to recognize tallent?
Yep. His talent was as a car salesman in AL
And what is your tallent?
655 first entry agrees with you
i question the objectivity of the school board. how can they be objective when most have a close relative working in the school system? most members of the board do not have the experience or background to do an objective evaluation. we cannot make improvements in our schools until we get an independent objective school board.
Even if they lack the knowledge, aren't they given specific guidelines for the evaluation process? It's not just some haphazzard "shot-in-the-dark thing that has no real validity.
2/18, 8:41
I'm an adult entertainer.
450 has a good idea. 655 seems to know what it was. We don't know & maybe should start fighting for Mr. Jackson if he is that good. Mrs. Norman spoke up, why not let her tell it to the whole county? Why not start out with four or five real good things he did according to the 2007 state audit. not little nitpicking penny ante gripings, but good things & big money saving things
We all need to work to try to get the school director back to being elected by the people.
I am going to ask again. EXACTLY what are the points that he is evaluated on? How does he get such a good score? Either the right questions are being asked on his evaluations or he is doing a good job. If he is doing a bad job and the score is good then obviously the evaluations questions are a not a reflection of what he is doing. Who does the evaluation questions? Are they the same evaulation questions that have always been done or did they change with Jackson? Does anyone know the answer to these? Can someone who has the evaluation post those on here?
Is this public knowledge? I don't think teacher evaluatios are.
I am not asking who gave what grade to him but what the questions were in the first place. Must have been easy questions like do you always wear a suit? I don't want the answers just the questions. Also who makes up the questions that are asked.
The whole thing is a sick joke. Was he evaluated on his financial prowess?
anonymous..
Why don't you contact the state board of education? I'm sure they have already heard how low-down Mr. Jackson is down here.
2-21 5:51 What is your point?
According to the local paper - Board Chairman Norman and Director Jackson publicly announced another "no new money" budget (for 2009?). They obviously are the voice of the school board majority. This is the fourth year in a row for those words on the front page of the paper. The other phrases of "no increase", and "no increase in years" has also flooded quotes and conversation over the past four years. Ms. Norman stated, "we look forward to another stellar year."
The words, "no, new, money, increase, in, and years", all have very finite meanings easily found in "Websters". It is way past time for education leaders & followers to refresh our memory on what the phrases literally mean, and show the citizens that spending is still $22,401,759 as in 2004, $23,744,802 as in 2005, or any other year thereafter.
"Stellar" means star filled. Does it mean "shoot for the moon" is no longer enough spending and taxation? Is there truth in saying there is "no new money", but revenue and spending increases? Is there truth in saying no increase, when you know you had more than before? Is there truth is claiming no increase in years, when there is a flood of "more" every year?
With that in mind, if I ask the state board of education what this means, and they reply, "everything is OK", is it OK?
anonymous..
Don't you trust anybody? Let's suppose you had cancer surgery, and your doctor told you all was OK? Would you believe that or conclude that he is simply trying to appease you or to get you to go away? I don't think so.
Forgive me, but it looks as if you suspect some vast conspiracy that's not there.
I think when you look at the budget you have to know what is state money and what is county. There have been at a couple of new grants in the school in the last two or three years. There is Leaps & Bounds and also the new health program that has been started. I believe there has also been other grants. Some of these are involving supervisors being hired for these programs. More administration that HAD to be hired. You folks don't see the whole picture when you look. You need to sit down and discuss with someone what these positions are and don't ASS-U-ME that they are giving raises to admin. The supervisors get the same raise that teachers do. And if At-Risk money is being mispent it will be caught because auditing of that spending is being done all over the state.
526 - If your throat was slit and you are bleeding all over the place, and good Dr. TJ says wait until the proctologist gets done taking a nap & he'll diagnose the problem from the other end - YOU SAY SIT & WAIT???
You have no business serving the public, let alone reeducating it! You're nuts!
653 Have you ever read the audit information or tested any of it to see what the numbers really mean?
Do you have no clue regarding the actual increases in taxes, year to year? Where do you think all of that money comes from? Why not add & subtract a little, & find out how far out of line your game is.
Take the 2007 audited sales tax number and deduct the same audited value for 2004, and then very slowly say, "$505,679 is NO NEW MONEY", over and over 25,283,950 times, and when done, you will have your two cents worth of the real increase of $505,679 in ctual new money for just sales tax!
Is there a logical explaination why the director and chaiman of the board of education loudly claim there is no increase - no new money - when there is a mother load of it that wasn't there before!
When the present school board members are up for reelection, we the voters will get to evaluate them.
anonymous..
Brilliant! That is exactly what I have been telling you folks. Rather than smearing and insulting people on this blog, why not use the electoral process?
If their behavior and misconduct are continued to be secret then they will continue to be re-elected. Look at how long it took to be rid of a former mayor then it required a judge to remove him. Keeping things in the dark don't make them better the darkness is just a breeding ground for more problems.
Can we say "electoral process"?
Can you (singular) say, "till then they will be held accountable & described accurately according to their behavior."
If you (they) are offended by what you (they) do, stop doing it & come clean in the process.
653 - chatter says it's promotions and tons of new positions for annointed ones! Chatter says teachers who are not annointed are not keeping up with the inflation index! BUT ... how would anyone know anything when the headcounts are top secret & not disclosed???????
If it's top secret, then how do you know so much? Hmmmmmm?
You people get on this blog and call Mr. Jackson, Mrs. Norman, Mr. Reedy, and many others everything in the book and then have the audacity to expect them to share every minute detail with you. Can you not see the arrogance and outrage in that?
Should they not share all the details with the ones who elected them?
The arrogance and outrage is in not sharing the details. It gives the impression things are being hid.
anonymous....
But, isn't that only and impression or an opinion? And yet, a few people here have made it all apprear to be fraud and deception. Do they have nothing better to do than to cause trouble, or are they simply jealous of those who have power? It must be one or the other. Otherwise, they would report the lawbreakers and allow the proper authorities to deal with them. Think.
717, 903, 942, 240 I'll bet your little head is filled with short circuits - neutrons, protrons, electrons, & screwtrons just bouncing off every little knot on you head. Do you blink a lot?
Your phone is ringing on the blog above this one - answer it before you drive everyone as crazy as you are.
Don't they have a dictionary in the school system?
Again, is an impression an opinion or not?
I would imagine all schools have dictionaries, or is that another of Mr. Jackson's corrupt policies?
"Imagine" doesn't cut it. Wanted to know if you or the others who can't comprehend simple word definitions knew if they had a dictionary. Do you know where it is? Do the "no new money" troupers know where one might exist? Do you think, if they found one, they might learn the meanings of "no", "New", "money", and those dreaded words "fraud", "crook, and "liar."
Got you thinking. Don't get distracted or try to chew gum & walk at the same time. Can't do everything at once.
anonymous..
If you have evidence of fraud and corruption, turn over your evidence and let the proper authorities do their job. It's not up to you.
If is a question that becomes denial in the presence of facts. You see. You deny. You defend by by dependence on that which is laid waste by fear and conformity.
The lemming follows because that is what is expected of lemmings - it's their job.
anonymous..
So you think that, rather than rely on the proper authorities to prosecute wrongdoings, it would be more effective to rant and rave on a public blog? I don't think so.
But isn't Giles County a wonderful place to live? As I said, it's no utopia, and its residents are not perfect people.
Let's discuss some good things about our county. What do you think?
Well some good things were written about on the skateboard part and only two or three comments were written. By the way wab was one of those and it was very positive and complementary.
827 Do you flush or just rub-a-dub-a-dub with whatever is in whats there? Do you drive the spouse up the wall or round and round the block to see if someone's look back to see if you're lookin back to see...
The corrupt love corruption & hate interferrence - looks like you're lookin back a lot & more than worried about the light in the tunnel.
8:27
Giles County is a wonderful place to live. It is filled with lots of great people.
Why don't we lay aside all the negatives and say things positive? Wouldn't that be a wondrous change?
The glass is half full and not half empty. And the crooks and liars didn't steal half of the liquid.
On a positive note, I'm going to overlook your continual whining. God bless America and Giles County!
If we toss the negatives aside, things will automatically be positive. If true, we must agree. When do we toss the deceivers & crook outs? Surely you don't proposed bedding with them??
I see a dirty cup overflowing. Get a clean cup and all can enjoy pure clean water! Your half full glass runneth over with dung.
anonymous..
I predicted a sarcastic response form you. And I was a bit disappointed that you didn't accuse me of being a defender of the crooks and liars.
Be that as it may, God bless America and our wonderful Giles County and its people, even though imperfect beings! Could I get your amen to that?
What a wonderful day to be alive and well in Giles County! There are so many undeserved blessings if we just look for them.
Amen to that. I am just thankful I live in a place where my family and I can live in peace and enjoy at least some small portion of the American dream. It's not a perffect place but close enough for me.
The termites have rallied around the flag! The Orkin man pulls up in the driveway & out comes the flag & a prayer rug.
That is positive news!!!!!!!!!! Could it be, the varmints are on the run & good times are just around the corner?
If you're going to wave the flag and tote the Bible, better brush up on what it means.
The flag is founded on the Bible. The Bible is real clear on deception, coveting, idol worship, and all kinds of corruption. God loves his children, especially the little ones with tender impressionable minds, especially when they are thrown in the midst of corruption.
What I think isn't necessarily going to change anything. What you think and do, does, to you. You see, the One in charge knows what you do and think - secrets simply don't exist at that level.
You can manipulate the books to look good in spite of runaway spending, cook the books & hide money, lie to loyal employees that you have no money, and claim millions of new money isn't new money; but bottom line you are two bit crooks waiting for someone to put the cuffs on your wrists! If some of us dum butt rednecks with no education know all this, do you think the Man in charge doesn't know your every conniving thought?
anonymous...
And you guys would gripe if you were to be hanged with a new rope. Get over it! You people, or the ones you wanted, lost your election bids and that's that. You can run again soon, but I'm fairly certain the results will be about the same.
By the way, don't talk down to me about my Bible knowledge. Nobody has a corner on that market. While we are on the subject of Bible principles, let me just tell you that my Bible teaches against jealousy, spreading rumors, hatred, envy, and on and on.
Yes, I'm answerable to the "man upstairs", and I consider that every day of my life. Don't you?
1133 someone sure twisted your tail. You need to change prescripts & get off the prozac - you are the one who lost the last election & the one before that! Hasn't been any tax increases & you're going to have to fess up on the money! You are a minority & people are fed up with your know it all crooked ways.
I'm sure you know the Bible forwards & backwards, but like satan, you only recite it backwards. don't see anyone envious or jealous of anything you do or stand for. Were does it say anyone should defend deceit, lust, idolatry, taking from the poor childs school roof to build a temple to moral relativism? where are your facts to dispute the fact that no money is BS? PS - the Book is full of little stories about how much God hates deception, including some real nasty things he made happen to those wo do nothing about it! What's done is out of love for God and country. The, You're not worth one second of bitter hatred, doesn't mean it will not change!
The good news is, God forgives almost anything if you repent & change your ways. Try it - you might be able to sleep for a change.
I have a question and please don't anyone get upset because I don't mean anything bad about it or good either.
I missed the open house for the new central office.
Does it connect with the old building?
What offices went into the new office?
What stayed in the old building?
Does the Board of Education still meet in the same old room upstairs or has this been moved to the new building?
I remember some of the old offices were closets. They really need more room.
anonymous..
You are nuts (describing behavior) if you think I have a solitary thing to do with county offices. I am merely a law-abiding and tax-paying citizen who gets tired of all the venom you people are spewing. Don't you have anything else to do? Furthermore, if there is solid proof of such things as fraud and embezzlement, I would ALWAYS stand on the side of justice for the guilty. But, I am not the judge, jury, and executioner, and neither are you.
As for God's grace and forgiveness, I think I am the best judge of my relationship to Him. I sleep very well at night when my arthritis isn't acting up. How about you?
I hope this helps clear up your blatant misunderstandings.
Have a wonderful day, and God bless America and Giles County!
EMBEZZLEMENT??? No one said that word before - are you up to that too???
Have you wondered why you have arthritis?
anonymous...
Have you lost your mind? I fully realize that nobody has mentioned embezzlement. But you guys have accused "select" officials of everything in the book. Could embezzlement be construed as fraud? I knew when I said embezzlement that one of you people would pounce on it. My bad for that, but you still get my drift, don't you?
I don't have to wonder about my arthritis. I got it from many years of athletics. But that's none of your business, right?
Have a wonderful day and try to ponder the positive things about our wonderful county. Should you do that, I think you will be less prone to ulcers and mental health issues. Be happy. Wouldn't that be a nice change?
5:32 Glad to hear you were in athletics, every team needs their athletic supporters. Surprised you admit to once again throwing out words without considering their meaning. I think you were called on that before.
Embezzlement could only be construed as fraud by someone who runs around in circles until their knees give out. Don't really care what you do. hope you enjoy it! just keep your hands out of my pocket.
Think of all the nice things you could do by doing for others rather than to others
Though I would spend the morning in catching up with the whining and griping on the blog. Sure been a lot of nothing.
I noticed someone asked about the new building for Mr. Tee and no one answered. I would also like to know if every office was moved to the new building or if it's all Mr. Tee's office. Maybe I need to go to a board meeting.
anonymous..
Let me clear something up for you right now. I do not cheat, lie, steal, embezzle, or defraud anyone. Neither do I run around town trying to embarrass and humiliate people I don't particularly like. I just leave them alone. I wish people like you had the same outlook. But then again, you would have to become a small-minded and unintelligent being like the rest of us, wouldn't you?
I never said I was an athletic supporter. How ignorant. You knew very well what I meant.
Again, have a nice day and try really hard to think on great and positive things rather than the negative and who might be under the gun (smeared) next. We have so many things to be thankful for. God bless America and Giles County!
The new Central Office building houses Debbie Braden, Ronny Shirey, Teresa Williamson, Amy Hamlett, Ann Chaffin, Mae Kelley and Christie Phillips. It also has a small conference room and some of the old records. Jackson is still in his old office. Williamson and Hamlet share an office as do Chaffin and Kelley.
Does anyone know how much the new building cost - start to finish??
2:49 you're the only one that referred to you as being an athletic supporter, the comment you referred to said "every team needs their athletic supporters." Where would teams be without their fans? Maybe your problem is you haven't changed that jock strap since high school? My, my no wonder you're so crotchity.
anonymous pisstnet (aka riddler)...
Wrong yet again, oh enlightened one. I made a very simple statement that my arthritis is due to years of being involved in athletics. But we both know that, don't we? Your spin was not at all comical, although I'm fairly certain that you are making vain attempts to impress the audience. It's not working.
Must you continue to cause me to doubt your intelligence? It's your choice.
Have a wonderful day and God bless America and our beautiful county!
Excuse me. That was misspelled. I meant to say pisstnut. Thought I'd clear that up before you give me another language arts lesson. Hilarious.
Someone needs to give you lessons on how to stop being stupid. Everyone else is trying to discuss the topics on the blog, and you keep trying to impress us with how nice and intelligent you are.
anonymous..
No, you are spinning it in reverse of the truth. I am merely responding to your negative comments.
God bless America and Giles County. Can you think of anything sleazy and negative to say about that?
Yes. You are the one always defending yourself. If no one knows who you are, how can they be talking about you? I think you are protesting too much. There must be something to it.
Thanks for answering the question about the new office building.
Mr. Tee still in his old office should be something for some to think about.
He's waiting for the gold doorknob to come in.
anonymous..
Please turn down the paranoid rhetoric. Must there be something WRONG with everything? I think you guys have pretty much "investigated" every office of city and county government. Now its time to turn over your "evidence" on all the crooks and liars and then sit back and let the proper authorities handle it. And don't forget, there's always election time.
I figured it out. You are just a broken record put on here to blow smoke.
anonymous..
Wrong yet AGAIN. Your accusing me of blowing smoke is a lot like the pot calling the kettle black. I merely respond to the rhetoric.
By the pot calling the kettle black, does that mean you are finally admitting what you are really doing?
TOPIC! TOPIC! TOPIC!
anonymous..
No, I was merely pointing out the hypocrisy of people who have no qualms about calling others names but who are totally intolerant of having someone point it out to them.
Since I'm not involved in the name-calling and smearing, it hardly applies to me. But, nice try anyway.
"Since I'm not involved in the name-calling and smearing, it hardly applies to me."
"I was merely pointing out the hypocrisy of people who have no qualms about calling others names but who are totally intolerant of having someone point it out to them."
PROOF~~~~LSD really fries brains~~~
anonymous....
Again, nice try.
This subject defines the cancer that is devouring our country. If the school board gives a corrupted chronic liar an excellent rating, what are they doing to the children? Better yet, what has the "system" been doing to the children who have grown up and are now leading the next generation?
The answer lies within the rating, and the obvious commonality of criteria shared by the raters and the ratee. One criterion is money, the ability to snatch it by any means, the ability to dispatch same with power, poise, and assuredness, and the ability to make the process look like it is for the good of mankind. Another criterion is the ability to corrupt the language to make bad look good and more look like less, except when it comes to performance where less output looks like more.
In the end analysis, the common thread of rate, rating, rater, ratee, ratchet (as in notching things up without notice), and even ratification of extended contracts with lush fruits befitting love, we find the prime derivation of logic - the root word, "rat". When put to the pristine test of neurological stress, "rat" makes sense. The Latin derivation of "rodo", as in gnawing also fits a picture of turning a storehouse of corn into a pile of corn cobs and little brown droppings instead of rich golden kernels of corn. Rodo is proud of what he does and is not ashamed to be called a rat. The characteristics we are trying to cipher indicate great efforts to hide and deny that which they do plus an outright indignation at the word "rat".
One might surmise that the rodos of Giles county may be related to roto rooters, but that would get us into evolution, instead of the convolution at hand. I appears there is little that can be done to deter varmints that have plagued mankind since the beginning of time. Pucker up and enjoy the ride!
Some of us are surmizing that there are a few kooks in Giles County.
Interesting. The know-it-alls just can't stand it that our school system has been recognized for excellence. I suppose it's very difficult to acknowledge something positive when all you seem to talk about is negative. What a laugh that is!
Do any of you actually work IN the schools? It would take approximately a nano-second after stepping into GCHS to understand the lack of administrating the overwhelming abundance of corrupt politics and the non-existence of focus on EDUCATION!! I witnessed this very day students graduating that are borderline illiterate, and several seniors that should not be - simply because the principal has no tact, leadership qualities or sense and strokes the ego of an Alabamian resident ready to raise property tax in GC to support teacher raises. My suggestion is for Mayors of Ardmore to stay mayors of Ardmore and leave the principals job to someone really interested in the betterment of the students of GC. I didn't graduate from GCHS but I can tell you with certainty that even an uneducated student (due to administrative actions not necessarily the teachers) are not given the opportunity to learn as they are too busy covering up wrongs and misappropriating funds for purposes of FOOTBALL. Ask any student if they have ANY respect for their principal. A person would be hard pressed to find a single soul in that faculty, staff or student body that did. From that you can easily deduce that with no leader the school is on a clear course for failure. This isn’t brain surgery folks. Simple math. If admin, teachers, directors, and parents would try taking their heads out of the sand and refocusing on actually educating these kids the crime, gang activity, teen pregnancy, welfare overload and all around failure rate of this county would be grossly effected. Take away football at GCHS and see how many dedicated teachers stay and see who leaves. Investigate substantiated claims of staff misconduct, funds and general practices and Tee Jackson along with GCHS would fail miserably in any kind of audit. The masses, however, are joining together. There will be a presence yet seen at the BOE meetings like none other. Get ready, the boat is about to be ROCKED!
Well that is so funny, because it seems as though football has just gotten started.That is one postive area of our school that keeps kids involved in a program lead by great men. I play football and a lot of my friends do as well. What football does for us is: it keeps our grades up, it teaches us dicipline and keeps us busy and out of trouble. I am sure the boys at RHS feel the same way.
By the way, we are the sport that brings in the most gate sales to help our school out.
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