To Be Or Not To Be Superintendent

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If there was any doubt concerning the validity of the superintendent search process it should be abundantly clear to everyone that the process was nothing more than a ruse to placate the community.

Once again this community has allowed the “powers that be” to shove their decisions down our throats with the hope that it will be better next time. Meanwhile our children suffer the “slings and arrows of outrageous misfortune” at the hands of political pirates who would sell our children’s futures to insure theirs.

This is not about Bolgen Vargas, this is about the incalculable lies that have been told throughout the superintendent search process that ended with the appointment of Bolgen Vargas. This is about the countless number man-hours invested by this community in a process that we hoped would value our commitment. This is about spending $40,000 dollars in educational dollars to produce a superintendent that we already had. This is about a Board of Education that does not possess the strength and integrity necessary to be the voice of the people while having the arrogance to blatantly state that what the community wants doesn’t matter.

At the risk of sounding redundant, not their problem. And, if we have a problem with it the question is, “Will we take arms against this sea of troubles, and by opposing end them or will we grunt and sweat under a weary life letting conscience make cowards of us all?”

We are being bullied while telling our children they should stand up to bullies. We tell our children to reach out and help those who are attacked while we won’t help each other in the fight for better education. We are teaching our children that bullying doesn’t stop when you become an adult, you just ignore it and hope for the best.

Our children will fail if we give them no reason to succeed.

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To Lie, To Cheat, Perchance To Scheme

Integrity: Adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty.

In an interview with Rachel Barnhart on April 2, 2012, School Board President Malik Evans said, “The process isn’t rigged for any candidate. The process is open for anyone who’s interested to apply. Everyone who applies will have a fair shot.”

There was a time in our history when the truth was expected and respected. It seems, however, that those days are long gone. Where silence was once golden it has now become an omission of truth so one will not incriminate oneself. Honesty, in days gone by, was the best policy, whereas today the best policy is that which makes the most money for the fewest people.

Charles F. Aked is quoted as saying, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” Good men have been doing nothing for too long, something must be done now.

Failure is an evil that has been running rampant in our system of education for decades. It has destroyed the hearts and minds of countless numbers of our children while we sit back passively and bemoan its consequences.

The statement made by President Evans is an outright lie. It is time the good people of this community come together and expose the rampant evil that pervades our system of education causing the failure of our children. Our educational leaders have shown, countless times, that their main concern is the business of education not the children education is supposed to serve.

The members of this community have a moral obligation to enter the temple and drive out the money changers who would sell the futures of our children for their political gain.

There was no integrity in the superintendent search process or in the selection process. There is no integrity in our process of education. Until members of this community come together and protest the lack of integrity that operates within our district we have no one to blame for the enslaved masses of the mis-educated but ourselves.

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It’s The Politics Babies

As we approach the superintendent interview process it is important to remember that it is not about who is applying for the position but who is hiring for the position.

Board President Malik Evans has said, “Anyone can apply” and in that he is absolutely correct. However, when the Board has already made up their mind as to whom they will hire that statement is as moot as the call for community input into the process.

Currently, the common belief is that the Board will hire Interim Superintendent Vargas as the permanent superintendent. Though President Evans stated publicly, throughout his campaign for re-election, that Dr. Vargas will not be eligible for the position because of contractual agreements, it seems that his contract has become automagically void and he is now eligible.

As interim superintendent, Dr. Vargas has put forth one proposed solution to the problem of failing students who are overage and under credited. That one proposal, All City High, was met with community angst and did not meet the approval of the Excellence in Student Achievement committee. The proposal was tabled in one business meeting, and removed from the agenda at another pending serious revision. It was only after considerable input from the community and revision by ESA commissioners White and Adams that the Board passed the amended proposal.

There is one thing we do know and understand about Dr. Vargas, he is supported by David Gantt. And, seeing as how several of the Board members are Gantt supporters, it is understood how he came to be interim superintendent and possibly our new permanent superintendent.

It is unfortunate that politics plays such an important role in education in our community. Because of the reigning political structure, our children have been at the failing end of an educational system that considers them nothing more than the end product of business concerns. We have yet to see the Board hire a superintendent that has offered this district anything more than post failure solutions with no idea how to prevent the educational failure of our children.

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