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Everybody knows this is just a way to get smart white kids to go to Central. It's always about Central and improving the color of the student body, no matter what the cost to any other school, neighborhood, etc.

Culinary Arts at Central?? How hard is to teach these kids to say "would you like fries with that?"

Public safety at Central? Is't that an oxymoron?

Oh, by the way thanks for the update about the number of days left in the Susan Mendhenhall regime.

Just for the record:
Culinary arts is available in all branches of military at excellent pay, benefits and much better training. Why not spend more time on general skills and maybe even ROTC.

Same goes for Public safety. Mr. Grier and his puppets need to address real education, real opportunities and future for our students and community.

Yes, cooking pays, for the best! As a former chef at a well known yacht club I paid for some of my college. In fact cooking paid for most of my college education and was the best way to keep me motivated to finish college. I still cook today and have a professional style kitchen at home, for fun.

I made very good money as a chef, but here in the triad I have found so very few "good" Restaurants, and may even be generous enough to say we have 3 Quality Restaurants here in the Triad. Chef pay at these few top places would be considered mid level management anywhere.

That said, Mr. Grier's attempts at culinary education are as good as his attempts at public education, lacking in creativity and weak in nutrition. The only thing worse is the Board’s oversight and willingness to eat his high priced experimentation and tolerate his failures like vultures feasting on road kill. We can’t even discuss school safety, how on earth do these jokers dare to consider teaching public safety?

Right now the number one enemy to our children’s and cities future is our School Administration (oxymoron?).

FYI - 35 years out of chef school and I am still trying to perfect the milk shake, like my ribs on the barbie, practice makes perfect, or at least eating my practice attempts is perfect...So like my hobby of cooking, the School Board needs to follow my motto "eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we diet".

Postscript:
There is an excellent chef school in Toronto, there are 2 full time Restaurants staffed by these young chefs. If we were to have the resources to do this in Downtown Greensboro there might be hope for a future for these kids, but in Toronto they have to have finished the equivalent of High School to be considered. Good Chef’s are pretty well educated and cultured. But alas I now salivate for what I may never see, a school system that offers educational nutrition for the young minds of our community.

Garth and Everyone else,
There is an excellent culinary program at GTCC. My personal opinion is that what we need are high school students who can read, write, and do math at a level needed to succeed in the Culinary program at GTCC. We have already paid tax dollars to set up an excellent program there.
Most high school grads that come to GTCC are not ready for college level work. The public schools must take care of the basics first. To use a culinary analogy, Grier and the school board always want to serve dessert when they haven't taken care of the "meat".

So everybody which was better....

The N&R running the Margaret Arbuckle LTE the morning after the County Budget vote or...

Dr Grief ranting on television about how the school system had been deceived by the County Commissioners????

I have to tell you that if there is someone who should be able to spot deception it is none other than Dr. Grief; he's been deceiving the community for a little over 6 years now.

I don't know Buck but by the sounds of it Dot Kearns has also lost over this. I heard there have been sightings of her at Myrtle Beach doing some VERY strange things.

Buck that is a tough one! My vote is for Arbuckle's letter. No make that the blog comments following Arbuckle's letter. Wow what wisdom!

Now there's some pork to be cut starting with the Guilford Education Alliance.

I heard there are even STRANGER things sparkling in Europe.

I thought Dot only went down to Myrtle Beach for "Biker Week".

YO!!

I think this Dottie you are talking about crashed my latest Girls Gone Wild production, along with her friend Susan.

Ticked me off, those two scarred off my girls, my crew, and I don't even know what happened to my bling, bling.....

They kept staggering around saying "don't worry Terry, we'll find you some more money, you're the best."

It's obvious that Terry the Turkey didn't get all his "fun money" since he has also been spotted on a balcony at Myrtle Beach. I guess the Rancho Mirage was out of his price range this year.

By the way, Dorothy K. Kearns needs to get home and address the concerns of the poor, hot, innocent children of High Point that normally cool off in the waters of City Lake Park pool. She needs to immediately get Walter on board to bus these children to the High Point Country Club pool.

After all, ALL CHILDREN CAN LEARN.....to swim.

Dotty, if you have questions, please see Map C3 (modified).

fyi...pictures will be posted at http://triadphotos.textamerica.com/

Will the Culinary Arts program provide students with butcher knives, meat cleavers and easy-to-conceal ice picks and will the Public Safety students be taught to detonate bombs, how to use tasers and taught other devious activities instead of learning the basic R's?

There are so many unanswered questions, I just don't see how this will work in High Point. It might work in a city like Greensboro but not High Point because as Dot Kearns has said many times, High Point is a different kind of town.

Handing these students paring knives and billy clubs instead of books is just morally irresponsible.