WOWwee! A new school superintendent. Rah, rah, rah.
There are “Ho-hum” times when events happen in your community and is recorded in the weekly journals parked in your driveway once a week, come rain or shine and there are “Yawn, ho-hum” times.
Last week reading in my journal I came upon a “Yawn, ho-hum” situation wherein we are scheduled our sixth school superintendents since 1991. His name is William R. Hite Jr. Our sixth school superintendent in eighteen years, mind you. The title of the March 12th article, “Hite is leading candidate for top schools job” and the article went into the usual “hum-drum, let’s get this show on the road” non-article and definitely minus any humanizing factors i.e., family, hobbies, educational background, favorite quotes or philosophies of education. I may have missed those articles. However, in this present article, there is not much about him save what others say about him and plan to do with his nomination.
Experience has shown me our journal does not de-humanize our school superintendents nor does it humanize them to the positive. They do not give them that “He’s a good guy and he’s competent” thing. Always the OJ treatment.
Our journal is a surrogate of the Washington Post and I got enough of the Washington Post when Mayor Berry was in office and I know they are giving School Superintendent Michelle Rhee in Washing D.C. a hard time. Her official title is Chancellor Michelle Rhee.
In my opinion and as in the past, after the swearing-in ceremony of our school superintendents, the chances of keeping him for any length of time is thirty five percent at best. Immediately after the swearing in ceremony would be the time the journal begin pulling out and polishing its templates, writing about everything our school superintendent does including but not limited to farting, blowing his nose, arguing with a principle, buying a new car and student scores GOING DOWN. When the editors are speaking of our superintendents it is always shrouded with negative council members and parental remarks including recounting the bills he wants to pass reporting them on the razor’s-edge of the negative etc., etc., etc.,
Irregardless the revolving door to our School’s Superintendent’s Office and the local journal’s perpetual influences with them, we citizens still manage to do a credible job of educating our youths. We have some strong communities and very active parents and PTA groups. For the most part, we have teachers who love our children and wish they well. That has to do with the recruiting and hiring teams in the system and as noted before, strong parental involvement.
Most of us parents resist the fact the editors of the paper appear to have dire resolves for us having the best School Superintendent there ever was; a Saint if you will and they will settle for nothing less for us cute, illiterate little adorable and helpless Black folks living in Prince George’s County, Md. BTW, there are some negroes in our county who also agree with the program of the journal and can not wait to strike up the band playing “When the Saints go marching in”.
Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates, WPFW, C-Span and the spirits of the unborn for the help,
BB
Last week reading in my journal I came upon a “Yawn, ho-hum” situation wherein we are scheduled our sixth school superintendents since 1991. His name is William R. Hite Jr. Our sixth school superintendent in eighteen years, mind you. The title of the March 12th article, “Hite is leading candidate for top schools job” and the article went into the usual “hum-drum, let’s get this show on the road” non-article and definitely minus any humanizing factors i.e., family, hobbies, educational background, favorite quotes or philosophies of education. I may have missed those articles. However, in this present article, there is not much about him save what others say about him and plan to do with his nomination.
Experience has shown me our journal does not de-humanize our school superintendents nor does it humanize them to the positive. They do not give them that “He’s a good guy and he’s competent” thing. Always the OJ treatment.
Our journal is a surrogate of the Washington Post and I got enough of the Washington Post when Mayor Berry was in office and I know they are giving School Superintendent Michelle Rhee in Washing D.C. a hard time. Her official title is Chancellor Michelle Rhee.
In my opinion and as in the past, after the swearing-in ceremony of our school superintendents, the chances of keeping him for any length of time is thirty five percent at best. Immediately after the swearing in ceremony would be the time the journal begin pulling out and polishing its templates, writing about everything our school superintendent does including but not limited to farting, blowing his nose, arguing with a principle, buying a new car and student scores GOING DOWN. When the editors are speaking of our superintendents it is always shrouded with negative council members and parental remarks including recounting the bills he wants to pass reporting them on the razor’s-edge of the negative etc., etc., etc.,
Irregardless the revolving door to our School’s Superintendent’s Office and the local journal’s perpetual influences with them, we citizens still manage to do a credible job of educating our youths. We have some strong communities and very active parents and PTA groups. For the most part, we have teachers who love our children and wish they well. That has to do with the recruiting and hiring teams in the system and as noted before, strong parental involvement.
Most of us parents resist the fact the editors of the paper appear to have dire resolves for us having the best School Superintendent there ever was; a Saint if you will and they will settle for nothing less for us cute, illiterate little adorable and helpless Black folks living in Prince George’s County, Md. BTW, there are some negroes in our county who also agree with the program of the journal and can not wait to strike up the band playing “When the Saints go marching in”.
Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates, WPFW, C-Span and the spirits of the unborn for the help,
BB
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