Evaluation Of Schools Director
The evaluation of the Schools Director was revealed at the School Board Meeting Tonight. From a combination of self evaluation and Board evaluation the Director was graded as having "exceeded all expectations" in all six categories of the evaluation.
Board Member Murrey did not submit an evaluation choosing instead to withhold it until a later date.
Another item on the agenda was the Director's contract, which is scheduled to expire on 1 July 2011. This item of business was tabled until a future work session.
Allen Barrett
Board Member Murrey did not submit an evaluation choosing instead to withhold it until a later date.
Another item on the agenda was the Director's contract, which is scheduled to expire on 1 July 2011. This item of business was tabled until a future work session.
Allen Barrett
posted by Allen Barrett | 6:36 PM
126 Comments:
Well, if he exceeded all expectations, then what's the beef? Way to go, Mr. Jackson. Ithink that's what we might call convicting the gainsayers...or, in this case, the naysayers. LOL.
It is an astounding claim that defines a failing education system, that is on a mission of self destruction!
State audited general fund school spending was $22,401,759 in 2004! Six years later, the current 2010 budget stands at $31,770,088. That $9,368,329 increase is a 41.8% increase in spending! The 188.9% 2004 BLS index compared to the 214.5% Dec., 2009 index says the inflation rate for those 6 years is only 13.6%! Spending is $6.3 million over the BLS rate for 2010!
If the school total spending increases 41.8% while citizens and taxpayers realize a mere 13.6% increase in wages and cost of living, then school spending is increasing 3.1 times more than the citizen's ability to pay for education! It is unimaginable that COLA wage increases were denied any employees during this period of unrestrained excesses! That which was denied one area obviously fattened other unexplained areas by significantly more than the 41.8% average increase for the total pot of money spent.
Undeniably, our country has been in a period of extremely favorable improvements in information technology, to a point where significant cost decreases (not increases) should be a minimum expectation! Results are extremely counter to expectations!
The extent of failures and deception are crystal clear in the Feb., 2009 budget increase amendment, where $1,214,500 was stripped from reserves and added to a claimed unsustainable $30,555,588 budget to reach that $31,791,690 2009-10 spending level! Because the money focus was on the phony $30,791,691 end of year 2008-9 budget, and the phony $1.3 million claimed favorable spending to that prior end of year budget, instead of real spending and real inflation, reserves were raided! That will force more tax increases on an unsuspecting council and community of citizens who are trying to survive in a jobless economy!
The game is complex. Real audited 2009 spending on a GAAP basis of 30,306,276 was actually $1,011,521 (3.5%) more than 2008, and well above the 0.4% decline in the BLS inflation rate for 2009. The "budget" spending basis in the 2009 audit was only $29,867,482; and that, coupled with understated revenues in that "end of year budget (that was adjusted to a phony actual") created the illusion of $1.3 million favorability in spending and revenue, when the exact opposite is true!
Further, add the 2009 $1.7 million unfavorable "change in net assets of governmental activities" (Audit exhibit I-5) and the $1.3 million unfavorability for the same net assets in 2008, and we have ever more and greater questions of propriety. The 2009 audit comment, "Capital assets used in governmental activities are not financial resources and therefore are not reported in the governmental funds". I wonder who will replace the assets when their useful life ends, and how long the life will be when maintenance money is diverted to empire building
Although we like to consider ourselves as having "common horse sense", some have forgotten that our beloved horses will gorge themselves and die if they get in the grain bin and allowed to eat all they want. Obviously, our national education system doesn't know one end of the horse from the other. They and our local education system are destroying our community and future!
don m
Look at the price of a car in 2004 and compare it to one for sale today. It's not less. The cost of books have gone from the twenty dollar range to the sixty dollar range. I continue to say that you people just don't know as much as you think and blow off more than a big whale. Ask questions and get the facts RIGHT before making so many UN-Educated statements.
I think that one big expense for the school system is gasoline for buses and that certainly has exceeded the 13.6% rate of inflation that you quote. That is only one of the schools expenses. I also know that during one of those years the state required the teachers get raises to the point of a certain state average. That was a significant increase. Maybe you should sit down with Mrs. Garner and see where those increases have been. Personally that budget is way too complicated for most people to understand. Also this years budget includes quite a bit of stimulus money that will not be there in 2011-12. That money is being spent on what the feds say spend it on.
What is self evaluation? I thought they were changing the evaluation. Did they do the same old one? Did he evaluate himself?
8:49 pm There you go again! Assuming a small number of people and calling them 'you people'. If you really knew the facts you would have a shock. So, is it that you are the only one in Giles Co. who is correct and the 'you people' being the remaining citizens who know nothing in comparison to yourself?
9:29
Wrong. You know as well as I do that there is a concerted effort underway to rid the county of those a very vocal minority have, in my opinion, decided are "corrupt" and incompetent. Again, don't take my word for this. Do some checking for yourself. It seems to make you angry that this is pointed out, not only by me but by others. Ask around town.
In my opinion you are wrong, too. Additionally, you assume I am 'angry' when I am actually laughing at you. Goodbyeeeee
849 Are you questioning our government's BLS index? Do you even know what it is! How many people in Giles County do you know who getting raises higher than the BLS rate every year or since 2004? Everybody but you is happy to even have a job. Those without would love to have a job & would be ten times more valuable than you if they could simply find their way to work!
Do you know anybody who works for the county that gets raises above the BLS rate - besides you? Out of all the hard luck people in this county, state, and country, how many do you think got a 42% increase in income??? Few got 13.6% & millions got laid off. Hopefully, you'll get fired & someone with a brain will replace you.
Is TJ paying $60 for $20 books now??? If so, is that $40 going in your pocket! Got to get all that politically correct bull crap stuffed down the student's throats? Afraid they might learn how to add, read, & spell & be smarter than you by the time they reach the first greade???
Look at it this way, game all you want, you're a loser & you ain't getting any more tax increases. Lots & lots of people know what's going on & they're mad! Life for corrupt loosers (gone) is changing for the betterment of this county & country. If public education has to crash to rid itself of corruption, let'er rip.
937 you sound nervous, strung out, & ready to run. Time for medication!
3:00 pm & 3:05 - Thanks both for your postings!
3:05
You bet I'm nervous about what this little group is trying to pull of. But I'm not ready to run from anybody. That's not my nature.
9:29
I learned some very alarming facts this very day from a VERY reliable source about this home charter deal. I plan to delve into it more, but it can be a disaster for Giles County if the lay uninformed voter gets behind and passes it. You know, it just looks like to me that the people who are so busy looking up Tennessee Cides Annnotated this and that would check with what's going on in Knox County.
Could it be that they already know some of these horrific outcomes and choose not to discuss them on this blog? In my opinion, that could be exactly the case. If what I was told is true, I will be busying myself trying to educate as many people as I can about the pitfalls of home charter rule.
6:15 So how about sharing what you learned about Knox county. FYI it has already been checked out and none of the scare tactics are true.
Maybe you could get a statement from the Shelby county mayor??
6:45
So are you telling me that these individuals from Knox County lied to me? Why would they do that?
6:55 Most probably you imagined or fabricated it as you do in most of your posts.
609 you can't run because you're afraid, all curled up, hiding, & pretending you have a brain --- when you can't even find a way to crawl out the hole you hide in!
You've been out down so many times you'll never find your way out.
Why did I know one of you would do your level best to try to discredit me? Thar's ok. I'll be busy, busy, busy working against the charter IF I find out it's as potentially ruinous to the county as I was told it could very well be. As long as God gives me breath, you can count on that.
Again, why would those people lie to me? Could you tell me what reason they could possibly have?
8:49: Are you saying the state auditors didn't publish correct actual numbers for 2004 through 2009? Beyond the actual numbers, there are no "facts". Can you name one? The audits are on-line.
Have you ever seen an accounting of actual revenue & spending with comparisons that might tell the community that department of education spending is out of control.
If a budget that is amended after the end of the school year is $1.3 million favorable to the spending total that occurred in that year, do you think Mr. Jackson hung the moon or picked your pocket?
Education should be about facts, logic, and reason. You're obviously a "progressive" busy at your task of destroying family, intelligence, & morality.
We need a few copies of Mr. Savage's "liberalism is a mental disorder" in the school library - it's a lot less than the Political Correctness crap being bought!
Are you saying that the difference between the 2010 budget $31,770,088 and the $22,524,812 for 2004 isn't an increase of $7,312,090? Can you figure out how much new money that $7 million added to spending? Did you know that the accumulated excess over the BLS for those six years is $21 plus million? Is that new money or more of your same old crap? Yep, there was so much money flooding the treasury, and the administration was so busy trying not to drown in it, that they didn't have time to pass some of it on to those those who do crawl under the bureaucratic barbed wire to "educate" someone when you're not interferring with that job.
821 you sound like a treed possum - I'll bet your eyes glow red in the dark.
Face it, people tease you because you're so incredibly dumb. Like a rat running a maize - poke your head in the wrong food dish & zap, off you go again! Hillarious!
Like grapes of wrath, your yard will look like a mine field once you start diggin.
9:08
Could you please answer the question? Why would these people lie? What would be their motivation?
I would think your time could be better spent answering the questions instead of trying to be cute and witty.
9:29 I am not 9:08 but I will give you an answer anyway. The rumor about two counties trying to opt out of charter was started by one of the current commissioners more than a year ago. Its his only line of defense. Most commissioners are seeing a charter as taking away their power. Instead of you mealey mouthing people on this blog why dont you do something constructive and contact the leaders in those two counties and get written proof from them what their situation is? And dont come back on here and say you 'heard'. Give us written proof and not just your verbage.
Way to go 8-09 !! Too much rumor and similar BS gets floated onto this blog by those who want to keep the oppressions of the last 200 yrs alive and well in Giles County . The same moneyed clique that owns the best properties in the county wants to maintain their 'rights and privileges' by keeping their same puppet commissioners safely sucking taxpayer $$ ($60 a meeting !) while not being responsive to what 'We the People' want . A good example of that is last week's beer board decision to overrule what 'the people' had told them to do relative to beer sales . It was done purely to benefit ONE store and it's pet commissioners . The 200 year back scratching WILL continue until 'the people' pass the upcoming charter and regain democratic control. Hopefully there will be some charter commissioners elected who will have the backbone to put some teeth into the charter in support of 'We the People' instead of the special interests .
We the People
Who is the commissioner for Champsville?
8:09
Excuse me, but how would you know who contacted who over in Knox County? The fact is, you don't. And the people who shared this information are from Knox County and are very reliable sources. So, please don't trey to downplay and belittle those who differ with you on this issue. It could be true that there is perhaps a "sour grapes" commissioner over there who is trying to scare people. But this information came from some folks a bit more objective and concerned about what this so-called charter rule can do to the people of Giles Coounty. So, until I hear or gain information to the contrary, I will campaign with a passion against it. Why? Because I love Giles County. And I am a part of a huge segment of the "we the people" Giles Countians.
Lastly, who do you think you are to tell me not to come back on this blog? Isn't a large part of you guys' "verbage" hearsay?
Three commissioners for Campbellsville and they are David Adams, Tim Risner and Oakelene Walls. On Jan. 19th I believe Risner & Adams had voted to reduce the beer sales distance down to 400feet. By the time the Feb. 8th meeting was held Risner & Adams corrected their votes to keep at 1,000 feet. Adams is a member of the Beer Board and voted against the application. Thank you D. Adams.
Voting to issue the beer license to the Campbellsville store were Lovell (owner of store is his son's friend) Stoney Jackson who is posturing politically and for the past year has voted just the way Lovell votes. Then you have Chan Harris who is chaplain of the commissioners? Go figure that one, but he votes as per Lovell.
These three commissioners violated their own laws.
Where are their constituents when it comes to election time?
Were I one of their constituents, I would not be forgetting how Risner and Adams voted on the zoning issue. People were getting hurt by intrusive businesses, both were fully aware of that, and still voted with the no-zoners. I never understood that.
For a topic about the Director of school evaluation this sure has a lot about other things. Both the charter and the beer board have their own thread so how come this one is eat up with distractions?
This thread & topic is being undermied because it threatens power & corruption in public education. Public education is the most powerful lobby in the USA! That lobby is the right arm of the progressive liberal political movement and their goal of destroying this country.
The issue is changing a nation where government is subservient to the people, into a nation where citizens are subservient to government. (zero tolerance?) We are near completion of this revolution; but citizens are fighing the loss of freedom and may even win a battle that is too far gone to save.
Subservience requires need. The millions who watched their jobs move to socialist slave nations now need a job, but there is none, and they must take hand outs from "government". Government has untold rights and means to raise taxes to provide hand outs.
A nation once blessed with an abundance of natural resources and citizens eager to put them to use, now finds government loaning slave nations money to develop resources while ours are shut down for one contrived reason or another. The huge defecit means our resources may have been sold to provide the goods now needed but produced by the slave nations. Huge banks have failed, but were taken over by government and sold to a few bigger banks to save us from ourselves. The list is endless.
Now that we are fully trained in deception, greed, and avarice, we fall back into the education system that taught some how to be victims & others how to take advantage of the indoctrinated.
I think the analysis of increasing spending by $7.3 million, which is a rate three times greater than inflation, while giving none of the necessary workers inflation adjustedt raises, defines the affliction & stupor we live in.
If we increase spending of money solely derived from taxation, have we not increased taxes? If we didn't have the $7.3 million before we spent it, is it not "new money". If we take a million out of the rainy day fund to increase spending by more than that amount in a period of zero inflation and growth, is it new money, old money, or spoils of war?
If the sourcerer of education says there is no new money, what say the lemmings? Are we afraid to question the emperor? We aren't getting what we pay for, but undoubtedly get what we deserve. When we praise deception and destruction as a job well done, maybe we bow to the wrong god & find ourselves about to be alone in the wilderness. Anybody want to stop it & start fighting for our Constitution & birthrights?
Can one fight for right & then publicly claim conflict of interest is how you're going to vote???
Sounds like Chris Morris stirring up the smell again about Zoning. Way to go Risner and Adams, hang in there and continue to represent the majoirity of your constituents.
Risner and Adams only represents the red necks of their district and not the progressive people of this community.
9:48
And who might those progressive people be? Would you care to name some of them? I'd venture to guess that several of these so-called forward thinking people can be found right here spewing hatred and divisiveness.
Oh, and are the rednecks the ones who would disagree with that?
Why don't you progressive thinkers leave this corrupted county if you can't be happy here? Believe me, we WILL miss you!
Wy don't we all just go get out beer joint and get drunk.
Who cares if someone is taking their children to church and see us drinking beer, They should join us.
Why is Giles County joining the "take God" out of everything?
641 look in the mirror - progressives lie, cheat, & steal to take freedom & push us into socialism - communism & worse.
You will not find any "progressives" fightin higher taxes & more government control & more oppression of taaxpayers.
Talking about "good old boys" originated in Campbellsville. Ask the commissioners there who they get their marching orders from. It's not the district constituents.
I agree with the board that "Jackson has exceeded all expectations". I knew he would cook the books again & they would be too dumb to figure it out - Looks like both Jackson & the board have exceeded all my expectations by draining reserves for another phony year of boondoggles! Pitiful, pitiful, pitiful - no wonder this county is going down the tubes!
Yep, Jackson continues to exceed everyone's expections - except, maybe his own? Some think the citizens will wake up & realize they are being baboozled.
I think Jackson is right - people who expect to be screwed aren't going to be happy unless they get screwed.
Anyone want to bet against the master?
To 18-10:12 Can you verify everything you just said. I don't think so.
I do have a question for those who can respond with some dignity:
Should Jackson have his contract extended for another year.
Yes
No
Don't Care
10:03
No.
Only people who seem pleased with his performance is half the scool board.
To:2/19/10 My vote in your survey is a resounding "no". Regarding T.J and his self-evaluation, is there any chance of having that put in our local paper? Also copies of how the board evaluated him? Can tax-payers have access to any of that information? I know many, many teachers who would very much like to know how their board member evaluated him but they absolutely cannot speak up and request it. The repercussions would be swift and severe as well as permanent. But teachers are tax payers also and as such should have an avenue of obtaining this information.
Jackson McCraney
You can get a copy of his evaluation and see the scores. It's public knowledge.
When you put Mr. Jackson's evaluation in the newspapers, you would be stirring up a major problem that perhaps you haven't considered. If his evaluation goes into the papers, then why wouldn't the same be held true for teachers? I'm sure that would not go over well. Would you want your emplpyer's evaluation of yourself made public in a newspaper?
1013 The proof you mentioned is in the second post at the beginning of this thread. All of that money... & none for the core workers??? The amendment would be a criminal act in the private sector, without question! The state 2008 audit is even worse. Can't anyone on the school board understand ratios & percents & apply that to common sense?
Jackson constantly taunts the board & commission with his "no new money" line - "They" have contempt for a public that is down and out because government has truly lost its way! Well, if the public has trouble finding its way, consider the fact that the leader and his loyal sheep either can't do 8th grade math or they are corrupt. Which is it? I would think they would be tired of being made fools - The big boy is stealing their candy & we're too timid & ignorant to stop it!
And... we call this education & a rational plan to prepare our children for their future??? It's perverse!
Your vote suggestion is a good one.
my vote is NO!
6:53
Such angry spewing! Those you claim should be getting tired of being made fools of do not agree with you. So I suppose they are corrupt?????
Why would it stir up trouble to put Mr. Jackson's evaluation in the paper? Do my tax dollars pay his salary? Do I elect his supervisors? Since I, John Q. Public essentially hire the people that hire T.J., I fail to see why it shouldn't be printed. As for teacher's evaluations being printed, I am one, and therefore think that the public does have a right to professional evaluations. However the problem with this is that the sheer # of teachers would make this cost prohibitive and it is not likely that all teachers evaluations would be printed because it's no secret that many teachers are the recipients of special favors or treatment, just as many are treated less than fairly and thus the BOE would open the door for multiple discrimination lawsuits. I may be mistaken, but I do think that employee personnel files are open to the public, but one must make an appt to view them. However, the public has NO rights when it comes to teacher's personal lives, i.e. where they live, their home phone #'s, whether they have a glass of wine at a local restaurant, where they go on vacation, etc. The public has NO right to call a teacher after school hours to discuss their child, homework, discipline, or anything work related. Teachers are employees, not possessions and when school is dismissed, the public should respect the privacy of educators.
Evaluations of tax paid employees should be available for viewing by the people who pay their salaries. If you do not pay a person's salary then it is nobody's business.
As stated above, I am a teacher and must therefore withhold my identity. If one has lived in Giles Co for any length of time, they most certainly can understand this. I dislike doing this, however I have grown quite fond of eating, electricity, a roof over my head, and a vehicle. I've seen the director make more than a few teachers' lives miserable for far smaller issues than speaking out on this forum and so I am taking the cowardly way and signing off as
John Q.
john q.
Nobody said it would be stirring up trouble. But tax payers pay teachers' salaries as well. Would you also favor publishing their evaluations? Surely, you don't.
There you go again Dr. Dufus lying like s tired hound, no disrespect meant for the hound.
Saturday, February 20, 2010 6:07:00 AM you wrote "When you put Mr. Jackson's evaluation in the newspapers, you would be stirring up a major problem that perhaps you haven't considered." I guess you just having trouble keeping your lies straight but what would you expect from somebody who don't no what they're saying most of the time.
No, there YOU go again with the name-calling and with the continuing witch hunt. You appear to have an acute case of HLSS as evidenced by your spewing of hatred and resentment.
As I said, if you are going to start putting evaluations in the local papers, you would be stirring up a lot of unnecessary trouble and strife. Don't we have enough of that, thanks to whiners like you? I believe so.
If you are so terribly unhappy here, why don't you just move somewhere else?
So based on your 10:49 entry you are a nobody since you say "nobody said it would be stirring up trouble" then you come back at 8:21 and said "As I said, if you are going to start putting evaluations in the local papers, you would be stirring up a lot of unnecessary trouble and strife."
So you are a liar because you first denied saying it, then you are a nobody because you say "nobody said" it then you finally admit you are the nobody who said it.
Don't you even pay attention to what you are saying on second thought I can understand why you don't listen to yourself, since no one else listens to you either.
12:40
Wrong. That post is not mine, but I do take responsibility for the 6:07 and 8:21 posts. YES, it would be stirring up more trouble, and the Lord knows we have our share of it in Giles County. Had you considered that someone might agree with what I said and not have to resort to calling me names like you do?
I'll ask you again. If you are so unhappy here, why don't you move?
I have a right to be unhappy here if I want to be. I also have a right and responsibility to make this place, a place where I can be happier. You see the difference in you and me obviously is that when I see something that isn't right I don't just close my eyes and move somewhere else I try and make it better. You on the other hand are one of those people who would rather curse the darkness than turn on the lights.
If you are not 10:49 why did you respond to it like you were. Just another example of you being caught in your own web of deceit and lies.
8:32
Look, think what you will; you're going to anyhow. I know what I did and didn't do and do not need your assessment. And I certainly do not have to expplain myself to you.Ok? And you have some more nerve telling me all about what I think and feel. What a laugh.
9:18 does that all the time. She post and waits just a while and then post like its another person. When she is caught, then she swears it was not her. Watch the language, it is always the same.
9:18 No one has ever accused you of thinking.
Asinine.
To 2/20/10 10:49 from John Q Public-
The poster on 2/20/10 at 6:07 said it would be stirring up trouble and did I not say that yes, the public has a right to view teacher evaluations, just no rights when it comes to their private lives? I said, since you apparently decided you did not want to hear the truth, but rather disagree just to play "gotcha", (I am referring to your statement,:::Nobody said it would be stirring up trouble. But tax payers pay teachers' salaries as well. Would you also favor publishing their evaluations? Surely, you don't.::::) The phrase between the colons is copied and pasted) that I thought it would be cost prohibitive and I thought but was not sure that the public already had the right to view the evaluations. But I do wish to thank you for proving one of my long held hypotheses which is that some people such as yourself do not care about issues but rather just want to complain. You provided the proof with your own words, having not even bothered to read my post. Sorry but you will have to find someone else to play your silly little game, but for your own self respect, I would at least read a post before I disagreed with it.
John Q. Public
john q.
Go back and read MY 9:18 post. I believe that pretty much sums up what I have been trying to say. And I don't need your approval either. So did you become a mind reader? Apparently, you know the innermost thoughts and intents of my heart. Poppycock!
Imagine having the evaluations of every teacher in the county published in the newspapers. Are you insane?
If I were like you, perhaps I would suggest something you might do with some of your "long held hypotheses". But I have a little more class than that.
Yeah your cup over floweth with class doesn't it 9:32? What a laugh!
Back to the director's evaluation!
We really deserve what we get - an education system rotting in political correctness & no one with the gumption to force a change to focus on reading, writing, math, & a sense of truth instead of PC opinion!
If the school board is ignorant & arrogant enough to rate T Jackson as exceeding all standards, then we know there are no standards of value, skill,or morality in our education system.
Apparently no one even knows the extent of excessive spending, padding the results, & causing dissention amongst the employees of the system! It's an insane game that is bleeding this county dry to dumb down the population!
It's like the boss dropped one in his pants & everyone is afraid to hold their nose.
Wonder if they think he doesn't know what he did?
He enjoys the stench, cause it is his power to make idiots out of those who fear him,
8:15 has the problem tagged.
The game has been played non stop for several years by the state BOE, Audit Depts, school board, commission, & those who have been cheated out of fair pay for their work -- by having done nothing to clean up lies & deception in the director's office.
It's clear - nothing will be done! It's equally clear that the citizens are going to make sure there will be nothing done on any future funding increase. You want to burn the little red school house down? Let it rip & enjoy the warmth while it burns. When you come back with dire need for more more money to replace that which has "disappeared", you know what you can kiss!
You've seen your last tax increase! When the employees get absolutely fed up with stealing their portion of inflation based tax revenue increases, they'll have your scalp & justly so. The "progressive" plan of more money, more finite control & manipulation, & PC indoctrination is failing miserably to improve education. Taxpayers are tired of dumping money they don't have in a rat hole to expedite more of the same old disintegration.
Financial management should have insured the checks and balances that would have protected the citizens from Jackson, but obviously, he is entrenched and in control, busy sacking what remains of the reserves, under the same old banner of deception & more deception!
The nation is waking up. Giles County is waking up. We have a charter to pass that can provide for removal of officials by recall, by voters! If we do nothing other than pass that single right, we can save the financial ruination of Giles County and provide a basis for cleaning up the many other communities that are being destroyed by a "progressive" liberal education bureaucracy!
Has anyone seen the Directors evaluation. Even the board members haven't seen the true outcome of the numbers. Did Young calculate the numbers or did he allow Jackson to do so. The true total number has never been disclosed. Last year he was below av. and this year exceeds expectation. Give me a break did he make a 360 or what.
a reliable source said jackson pulled a fast one when he raided the reserves with that last amendment. that The book thing is fishy - that 2010 already had $252,000 it the budget & he supposedly had to have another $284,00 - that would be a whopping $536,ooo to spend on books in 2010! (there's no limit to these people!) It doesnt make any sense at all- what the heck is happening? Has the school board lost its mind? (dumb question)
There's a big national fight going on right now over new "Obama" books designed to indoctrinate the children, sponsored by the SDS nuts, CCP, progressives, & whacked out liberals. Someone needs to find out what he's up to & stop it or we'll see goosesteppers like the hitler youth!
6:51
I'd be careful with the "reliable source" accusation if I were you. I used the term when I posted some information I got concerning charter rule in Knox County, and barrett and his loyal few crucified me for it. Oh, but you will get a free pass because you are going negative on Mr. Jackson. I forgot.
One thing I'm a little unclear on is your statement that Mr.Jackson asked for an additional $284,000. Do you honestly think he requested the money for his own personal use? Or are you listening to one whose feet are swift to mischief? Ridiculous.
Since Bev did not evaluate the director his evaluation would have to be higher. What was she thinking? Why did she not do hers?
7:40 If you weren't so dumb you's only be stupid. I have followed your comments about your "reliable Knox County Source" and after it was totally discredited you continued to cling to it and claim it was "reliable". I believe you were even give a statement from an official along with their phone number for you to call and verify it but you chose instead to continue making claims that you n=knew were not true, that's why people laughed at you and called you stupid.
sure as spit, someone must have budget & amendment copies
was there 252,000 in the budget & the another 284,000 added to it old sneaky raiding the reserves! sounds like the 536,000 is right & we're about to get clipped again - caught with our drawers down again just like always
Is he buying everyone in giles county a copy of lennin & old adolph's new world order stuff?
9:06
My concerns about the charter issue began when I heard about problems Knox and Shelby Counties ARE HAVING with it. Since then, I have been talking to lots of people around town, and I am finding that most of them share that same concern. Would you say we are all a bunch of dummies because we are fearful of what it can do to our county? And just because you say my comments have been discredited doesn't make it so. If anyone is laughing at me, it's those who are pushing this mess. There are plenty of people who are already opposed to it. Trust me on that.
6:56 Even you should know there is a difference in being opposed to something, being fearful of something because of it's possibilities and opposing a thing based on untruths, impossibilities, and proven misinformation.
On second though you probably wouldn't know the difference.
8:41
Let me clarify what I said. I am quite fearful of what this charter thing could do to this county. And, until it can be proven to me otherwise, I will stand opposed to it. Actually, I am opposed to it anyhow for two reasons. First, I don't think we need it. Secondly, I don't trust the ones who are behind it.
We both know that truth is a relative term. Whose truth? Even if someone in Knox County says charter rule is the greatest thing since loaf bread, why is it that we have to blindly accept that assessment? And why is it not acceptable for someone else who is in a position to KNOW what's going on over there to tell people like me that charter rule is a disaster? Why is that? How is it fair to be intolerable of an opposing opinion or view?
You just couldn't resist condescending by saying I wouldn't know the difference. That's ok. I don't have to prove anything to you, so you are free to think as you wish.
One thing about it -
If you threaten to drain the swamp, the alligators & snakes won't be happy
9:23
And your point is?????
And for every action, there's an equal and opposing reaction. That's what the complainers can't tolerate (anything in opposition to their way of thinking).
When someone drops an egg
upon your stupid head
it goes kersplat
cause you're fat?
cause you're brain dead?
neither, cause you for it beg!
ps - it's what you call "u-for-ism"
- a couple words past "u-phony"
- in the "e's"
Correct me if I am wrong. Knox County as in Knoxville. Can we comparie Knoxville to Pulaski, I don't think so. The bottom line is that the elected officials will run the charter just like now so nothing will change. All of this just to try and fowl up two people's power. You are all forgetting what can really be good for the county. Just like the Financial Management that you don't think is being run right. Nobody can win with you people.
Where are the closest counties to us that have a charter. Worth people calling around those counties and seeing how it's working. As far as I know all systems still have a Director of Schools.
6:31 You asked to be correct if you are wrong. I offer the following not to start a knit picking argument, simply the corrections to what you wrote.
Knox County is not in Knoxville. Knoxville is in Knox county.
If the charter is accepted by the voters, the elected officials will not run the charter. The elected offificials will perform under the local laws written by the people in the charter instead of under laws written by the state legilature on local matters.
If the charter as written is accepted by the people, there will be many changes that effect us locally.
Knoxville is a part of Knox County and is certainly bigger that Pulaski but what they have done there doesn't have anything really to do with what the Charter does here. Understand please, the reason elected officials run this county as they have is because they have been allowed to do as they pleased with little opposition from the people they govern. With the Charter those same officials become much more accountable to the people. Contrary to your belief that this is merely an effort to " fowl up two people's power" the real purpose is to make everyone more accountable to the people they are suppose to serve.
While I do believe the Financial Management office could benefit greatly from stronger more independent leadership the improvements brought to the County by the adoption of the Financial Management Act have been great improvements over what we had. While pants with a broken zipper are still pants they aren't nearly as acceptable for wear as a pair of pants that may be a bit too short.
Life is a process of evolving and change that which does not change is dead already. Allen Barrett
Yes, and you sir have fully evolved into someone you don't even know when you look in the mirror. It's called delusional.
QUESTION??
Does the school system have any meaningful objectives other than spending more money? Seriously!
It seems that the goals relate to buying something new and hiring more people - in a place that hasn't been growing. Then, the measurements seem to revolve around the being able to meet those goals by spending more money to buy more stuff & hire more people! It's insane!
Are there any efficiency goals & measurements? The world of information technology has just about eliminated the need for administrative people in industry & they have many many more functions than paper shuffling & trying to keep track what they did.
A smart business doesn't pay royalties & license fees - they hire a qualified person to make their own system, CD's, training programs, etc. one time, then use it over & over - perfect it - & if they have a brain CUT COST BIG TIME year after year!
If the kids are watching a video program & getting it, that means the teacher can coach the few who fall behing without stopping everything else!
Education isn't about education - its about spending money & taxing the citizens to death! A good kick butt manager could turn this crap around in a heat beat & turn a bunch of loosers into winners!
Of course, that means getting rid of the looser in charge.
Old cave man saying - if the hive is full of drones, there ain't gonna be any honey!
maybe the school could come up with an energizing slogan like.
"Let's make honey!"
Might I suggest a new name for this blog. Why not call it the "Hook, Line, and Sinker Forum"?
Good one. And Barrett seems to be the man with the rod and reel. He alone has caused so much hatred, suspicion, and distrust in this county. I'm just glad most people take him with a grain of salt.
Good one. And Barrett seems to be the man with the rod and reel. He alone has caused so much hatred, suspicion, and distrust in this county. I'm just glad most people take him with a grain of salt.
Ahhhhhh, but without out salt how bland the flavor would be. Keep it up Mr. Barrett you are a hero especially for standing up for us little guys in the school system.
3:53
You're feeding an already swollen ego. You want him to keep stirring up trouble, causing hatred, mistrust, and division? Why on earth would you encourage that kind of behavior? Look, it's perfectly ok to be in favor of and support candidates and officials we believe in, but it's NOT acceptable to be mean and nasty to others. Surely, you don't support such misbehavior?
8:08 Its not being mean and nasty. Its forcing them to stop being deceitful, etc when Mr Barrett reveals some of the things out elected officials are doing that are not on the up and up and not acceptable to the citizens.
The cure for cancer is a very harsh treatment 8:08 but look at the results. It's never easy to deal with those you choose to do wrong but it's necessary are like the cancer it will continue to spread, get stronger and finally kill it's host. If you would stop and think with an open mind you would see that the problem isn't Mr. Barrett but those who continue to choose to do wrong.
8:13
Well, you and I just see things from a different perspective. I see the one you are defending as mean and nasty along with anyone else who chooses to behave that way.. Guess what? A LOT of people see him the same way.
Look, if barrett has evidence of deceit and criminal activity, he needs to turn it over to the proper authorities. Similarly, if he dislikes or disapproves of specific officials, then he needs to vote against them at election time. What he is doing by running around town stirring up trouble and verbally beating up on and bullying people is wrong!
No, I honestly think he is primarily responsible for the upheaval and discord in this county. God smiles on the peacemaker and condemns troublemakers...those whose feet are swift to mischief. Would you agree with me on that?
Dumbo - you're electrifrying:
Every time a terd floats to the top, you're there to bite it!
Who would think a little old suggestion of efficiency, saving, cost cutting, & such other inflamatory words would kick your rectal jaws flappin in such a tyraide - which to you is cool, as in cool aid?, coo laid", band aid if you bring your friends? Have none?? - then be cool hmmmmmm
Remmmember - All that big spending that was no knew money??? well teachers & workers got none but the honey flies & drones are fatter & the feeders are skinnier.
To Sunday, March 14, 2010 12:53:00 PM
You said "if barrett has evidence of deceit and criminal activity, he needs to turn it over to the proper authorities".
Well it seems that is exactly what he has done brought it to the people and they can decide. If this information was not made available most people would not have known about it and would probably have went right on voting for these people.
If it is as you say that "he is primarily responsible for the upheaval and discord in this county" I say thank you mr Barrett and would you please doe the say thing for the state and the country.
If "God smiles on the peacemaker and condemns troublemakers..." would you remind me about God's attitude toward the Apostle Paul, the Disciples and even Jesus for each were described and thought of as "troublemakers" by those in control and those who blindly followed them. "Would you agree with me on that"?
AMEN 336!
Teachers are educated in a cesspool of indoctrination, which is bad.
The really good side of the equation is they were exposed to a lot of true knowledge & skills, along with the grit to get the 4 year degree & all the crap that goes with it.
The thing we must get back to is basic math, logic and true meaningful deductive reasoning based on facts. If you have that, you are a real threat to the TJ's, NEA & the education establishment that is in control at this point.
The why a teacher needs it, is as simple as following the bouncing ball everytime it comes to begging for money and shucking some of it out to "teachers", who really are the backbone and substance of education.
In spite of the fact that our little dynasty has spent maybe three times the inflaion rate - teachers apparently haven't even received the inflate rate in raises. There is a reason - you're the sacrifical lamb that goes to the alter just before the feast of the anoinkted ones. If you got what you deserved, there wouldn't be enough left over to reward quislings & hire friends & build fancy buildings & toss money to the four winds. If the total spending is three times more than average, it means the taxpayers are taxed three times too much. Same situation applies to busses, books, necessary peons who aren't paid much, etc.
Put your good education in gear, toss the excess baggage out (NEA & TEA), get the goods on these creeps, & then make some changes happen locally, state wide & federal! The taxpayers would help and put you on a pedistal, instead under the poor house.
2:24
Well, I see you are back at the name-calling and nasty language. Say, if I used your analogy of the excrement floating to the top, do you think my post would be removed? I think so, and not because of the vulgarity but because of a difference of opinion with you guys. But wouldn't that defeat the purpose of a "free speech" blog?
James,
No, my Bible tells me that God smiles on the peacemakers and condemns troublemakers. That's not to say there were not those in Biblical days who were they who turned the world upside down. But they were not out stirring up strife and contention. There's more than a subtle difference between those who were truly tramping for the Lord and individuals who are troublemakers. It's unfortunate that you apparently defend the latter. Would you agree with me on that?
I'm not James but I certainly wonder about your theology 8:24.
Are you saying that the Romans and the Jews in charge at the time of Jesus and Paul did not consider them to be troublemakers of the worst sort? Not only the Bible but secular history defines these men as trouble makers. People who seek change always are viewed as trouble makers by those content with things the way they are.
11:30
Are you serious? Of course the Jews and Romans considered those people troublemakers, but barrett and company are not cut from that same bolt of cloth.
Who says people around here are "content" with the way things are? You guys love to make that charge, but it's not true. That's why we have elections.
I will say this much. I am not at all content with the troublemakers who are doing their best to be "in charge" as you called it. Looking at it from that perspective, I was more content before the trouble began. I've lived here all my life, and I have never seen the hatred that exists now. Johnny Appleseed has been very busy, and too many have bought in to that paranoid way of thinking. But I would totally agree with you that those who seek change around here are viewed as troublemakers.
To 6:28 I'm not sure if you bother reading what you write it seems that you don't. You said in a statement on
Sunday, March 14, 2010 8:24:00 PM
that "No, my Bible tells me that God smiles on the peacemakers and condemns troublemakers".
I simply took issue with such a narrow and wrong minded statement and gave examples of well known trouble makers that God obviously smiled on.
My suggestion for you is if you are going to speak for God you might want to know more about what He has to say.
Have you ever heard of "Blessed are the Peacemakers"? Do you know that feet that are swift to mischief and those who cause strife and contention are troublemakers? I think you will find this information in the Bible.
3:36 you might try reading Joel 3:9-10 you see the Bible says that there is a time for all things.
James 1:8 "a double minded man is unstable in all his ways".
3:58
So do you honestly think that gives a small "non-existent" group the right to behave as they do? Surely not.
4:40 What behavior do you refer to?
Oh, you don't know 6:06? What a laugh. You shouldn't pretend to be uninformed.
dumpo -
The leaf shaker
who is a faker
of peace maker
be piece taker
riddler
You really should consider being published! Amazing prose.
I would have titled the above work "The Kettle That Called the Pot Black". Whatcha think?
To 6:26 "Whatcha think?
I think often you should try it sometime.
If 6:26 could think they wouldn't keep showing how stupid they are.
Have you ever heard of "Blessed are the Peacemakers"? Do you know that feet that are swift to mischief and those who cause strife and contention are troublemakers?
No matter which side of the fence you are on, if you keep coming back with something, this makes you also a trouble maker.
Even me for posting this.
To 11:38
Strife and contention are resolved by feet swift to the rear and peace results in an unconscious opponent.
You guys just can't stand opposing viewpoints, can you? That's why you do your best to discredit and/or run off anyone who does.
5:28 There is never any substance to your postings. Sorry, but it goes to show your lack of intellect.
6:51
On the contrary, pointing out the ruthless and unending attacks and smear campaigns along with those doing it IS QUITE SUBSTANTIVE. Lack of intellect? Wrong. I simply oppose such shameful misbehavior
I wonder why it is that everytime someone suggests improvement in the skoo system we get a short circuit & dumpo's hair goes straight up in the air, feet over there, & eyes stoney glare, screamin it ain't fair
What is the innovatibility of a stuffed rhino? Some say they get around by floating dowstream - all born upstream with uptown credentials - by the time they get old & ready to be dumped in the big pond, there is a convulsive peristaltick movement & they disappear to become a blob on the bottom.
Surely there must be a few salmonites who are willing to swim upstream, manurever around the hippos, & regenerate, lay a few eggs for prosperity & then feed a few poor land locked bears before they pass on.
for dumpo
I sincerely hope
she'll ditch the dope
slide down the slope
& learn to cope
riddler...
You are casting your pearls of intellect before swine here. Why aren't you published?
I was wondering if you could write some prose about Hook, Line, and Sinker Syndrome? You should be able to do that quite well.
6:30 speak for yourself when you start calling people swine.
2:04
Look, I was simply making reference to an age-old saying that had nothing to do with YOU. Accept what I said for what it is and stop being so defensive. None of us are that important.
You seem to think that you are!
You seem to think that you are!
9:44 and 9:45
You posted twice! I'm wondering if you will be criticized for that. I was. But, then again, I don't go along with status quo on this blog. You're probably going to be safe.
Figured you would bite. You have to have a say about everything, whether it concerns you or not.
Tee is really back sliding. We'll no on April 1 if board gives extension to contract. Need alot of us there to say no to extension.
12:29:00 AM
Well bless my heart, I hit that button twice. Thanks for telling me, I'll try to watch that.
Geee, with the new ethics police, I wonder if someone will nail a couple of liars. I'd rather have a drunk running things, than a liar.
& now I ain't saying the blue gill is a drunk - he's always been nice to me. everybody has a bad day once in a while.
The other side of that coin is the fact that no "good" person has a good day when you're having to deal with a liar. oppositely speaking, "no good" rats always have a good day with liar;s in their pocket.
Old "no new money" would be a good place to start.
Me, I think if you're out fishin for somethin to sink your teeth in, don't mess with a little pan fish, go after the big mouth bass or shamoo!
Sometimes you have tostart small and work your way up. Don't think the big bass ain't on the line just not in the livewell yet.
Wonder if someone will mount him
Tonight the board will decide if Tee has another year or wait for new boaard to make that decision.
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