Rabbi Will McCubbins, China Grove, N.C.
♦ This November those Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education Incumbents, fighting for their seats, face impossible odds against very angry voters in the county. The odds of the incumbents returning to their seats are even worse than those incumbents who were obliterated back in the 2012 election. This is a war L.A. Overcash, Richard Miller, Kay Wright Norman, and Jean Kennedy have brought on themselves through their years of incompetence and taking marching orders from corrupt Salisbury. This ball game is over before it starts. They can cry and falsely accuse Travis Allen, Dean Hunter, and Phil Hardin of being members of the Tea Party when they never have been. I should know–I’m the head of the Tea Party.
Let’s get down to brass tacks. The history of these incompetents that harmed our school system is lengthy and deep. For any one of these offenses these four should be hurled out of office. They are even worse offenders than Jim Emerson and Bryce Beard. Let’s look at their abysmal record:
• They voted to sue YOU the county taxpayers and only backed off of this attempt when the mediator warned them it was a bad option.
• The school system’s ratings dropped to among the lowest ranking school systems in the state.
• The N.C. State Education READY Report said Rowan-Salisbury’s Schools performed well below the state level and county composite scores, making Salisbury schools particularly unattractive to both parents and to businesses thinking about moving into the area.
• They cost you and the school system many, many thousands of dollars to fatten their attorney’s wallets to waste time and energy on Miller’s legal action against the county and ultimately YOU the taxpayers and our school children.
• How is it that the school board incumbents made the Central Office’s a top priority and pushed hard for it to be built on contaminated 329 S. Main without a parking lot merely to promote a dreamy-eyed economic magnet to attract developers to the derelict Empire Hotel that should be demolished before it falls down. All for the vain-glory of a brass plaque with their names on it at 329 S. Main.
• Why are so many graduating from our schools without the ability to read or write?
• The school system, especially in Salisbury, is well known for their gang, drug activity, discipline problems. And the 3 suicides at Irwin? All on the incumbents watch.
• Children are going to school in trailers and in buildings without proper water.
• How about that FOIA that showed Miller entertaining the thought of a “no bid” contract? Need I say more?
• And the best the School Board can do is entertain us with smoke screens and “positive publicity” about championship golf and tennis teams and getting Judy Grissom an expensive Technology award in Houston at the cost of buying a warehouse full of IPads that were never put into play.
It would easier and far cheaper to hand each incumbent an individual brass plaque on their way out the door with an F on it. I apologize for leaving out even more.
