Putting the fun in dysfunctional
The Guilford County Board of Education may not be the most popular bunch here at The Chalkboard, particularly after Tuesday's decision to give themselves a pay raise.
But be thankful we don't have school board members like these:
- One elected school board member in Fresno, Calif., says he can't show up for meetings if television cameras will be there. He's a prison guard and said it would be a danger to his family if he was on TV. Of course, the cameras are at almost every meeting. I'm not sure how a school board member can do his or her job if he can't go to meetings, but it gets stranger....
- In 1997, Rockford, Ill. school board president Bill "Headlock" Nedlock grabbed a fellow board member by the throat during an argument about school spending.
- I've heard plenty of folks say the Guilford County school board stinks, but the Kenosha (Wisc.) Unified School Board may smell - literally.
In 1993, board member Sally Yule Mengo complained publicly that two fellow board members, er, didn't smell so great. The supposedly stinky board members denied the charge of B.O.
- Last year, voters in Orange County, Calif., elected political newcomer Steve Rocco to a local school board, despite Rocco's claims that a vast network of business and civic leaders is trying to ruin him. Supposedly, this campaign began in 1980, when Rocco was arrested at an Albertson's grocery store for shoplifting film and sausage. Rocco vowed to fight "The Partnership" during his swearing-in ceremony.
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Bruce: My favorite board member is in St. Louis. She once threw a cup of water on a school administrator and wrote a letter to the mayor to inform him that he had been inflicted with a Biblical curse. If you Google "Rochell Moore," her letter should be your first hit.
Posted on May 11, 2005 11:43 AM
It gets even better. Last year, a Missouri court removed Moore from the St. Louis school board, after the aforementioned incidents and after she allegedly threatened to kill a city official. She also claimed a school official spiked her coffee with cocaine.
Seriously, it sounds like this woman may need psychiatric care.
Here is a excerpt from the curse on Mayor Francis Slay, courtesy Blog Saint Louis (http://bsl.archpundit.com/):
"The Lord shall make the pestilence cleave unto Francis Slay and anyone who helps him, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it....The Lord shall smite Francis Slay and anyone who helps him with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword and with blasting and with mildew; and the angel of the Lord shall pursue Francis Slay until he perishes."
Posted on May 11, 2005 1:40 PM
Bruce, I lived in St Louis for a number of years during which time I served on a school board. The St. Louis area has 23 different school districts so the capacity and potential for dysfunction is that much greater. The President of my board was a beer truck dirver (I have nothing against those guys, believe me) who had nothing to do all day but wander the district and listen to folks complain about rpincipals and the superintendent. He presided over the firings of several principals and two superintendents while he was there and a scandal of stealing soda money from the vending machines. Guilford County Schools is in great shape in my book.
Posted on May 11, 2005 10:31 PM
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