11.09.2009

The new guard wants to shake things up

So the first two decisions they announce by press release are:

(1) 'We're going to stop construction on a school already on the path to construction, and thereby ensure that millions of dollars will have been wasted."

and

(2) "We're going to reverse the Wednesday early release policy a few weeks after new school zone signs just went up all over Raleigh." Why? So they can be different from the previous board. You see, that's what's important. Being "not the previous board."


In the meantime, the News & Observer had an article this weekend which portends doom for the new Board. They are about to walk right into a hornets' nest of resistance, which is what happens when you misconstrue a victory on one issue in a low turnout election as an overwhelming mandate to scrap everything.


So, they're going after the magnet program.
They're coming after Enloe High School.

If they do that, this is likely to be the shortest-tenured school board in Wake County history.