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Hire a spokes person to speak on his behalf

He should pledge that never again will a superindendant support a voting block on the board representing a particular highschool attempting a demographic facelift at their patron school by busing unwilling conscipts from other areas.

He should strongly discourage wasting the boards time with any mention of, discussion of, or overt advocation regarding awarding vendor contracts to certain people based on personal relationships/ skin color/ sex, since this has absolutely NOTHING to do with education of youth and has absolutely no benefit to either students or taxpayers.

Pledge to support consistent, equal, and uniform diciplinary policies across the board.

Encourage communciation with teachers and staff without fear of reprisal.

Pledge that he will never play off one school district against another in order to extort more salery and benefits from foolish citizen and business groups beyond his existing salery and benefits.

Try not to get caught up in a testing scandal just to make himself / the county look good like the other candidate for this position did.

In other words, quit playing with the #s and give us the true, overall picture about how our (the community's) children are doing in school (we as parents should know how our individual kids are doing).

He should restore reading to its proper place in education. He should sell opportunity not victimhood to our students. He should regrain from publicity stunts such as being sworn in at dawn. He should not consider the color of one's skin in any decision he makes. He should serve out his contract as he promised to do when he signed the contract. He should not expect or take contract modifications during the first three years of the contract. He should promise not to blame Washington, Raleigh, or the County Board of Commissioners for any problems that may arise.

In order for Mr. Green to effectively run the Guilford County School System he should arrange to meet with parents, at times that will accommodate working parents' schedules, in order to get a better understanding of what parental expectations and needs are for their children.

He should VOW on a stack of curriculum documents that he won't be a well-paid hood ornament.

More to the point, What has the school board told him to do. Have they given him a job description ?

I think the first thing he should do is visit his schools in the system. He needs to meet the teaachers that teach in this district! He needs to realize that we need teacher assistants back in all grade levels!!!! They always yip and complain about our low test scores but they don't give us the help we need to raise the scores!!!

As a 52-year-ago graduate of one of the high schools in your district, I wish you well. First thing you need to do is disregard those sore heads who'd like nothing more than to see you screw up the system; judgement comes in myriad packages. You've been hired because someone, focused on who was the best person, voted to hire you, the best package. God's speed.

I agree completely with tchrgirl54! :)

In all seriousness, I would love to have Mr Green stop by my school, or even stop by my room. I'm eager to meet the guy and see firsthand how well he listens to teachers.

He should empower and encourage principals te discipline and deal with students who are a constant disruption to the learning environment, not allowing them to hinder the progress of students who actually want a quality education. He should seriously consider creating an alternative school at the middle and high school levels as a place of intervention and/or last resort for students who choose not to value education and take full advantage of the opportunity that they have been given.

Mo Green did stop by my child's 8th grade class the 1st week of school, before he was even officially sworn in. I feel good about him. He is currently on his "tour" of the school system and I feel as though he's going to listen to the various points of view and make his own observations as well before just jumping in and making all kinds of changes because he heard about it somewhere.

Can't imagine anybody with children in GCS, soreheads, myriad packages, or whoever, who would actually WANT a superintendant to screw things up even more than they already are, but whoever these people are, I agree with Mr. Harrington, don't listen to them.