Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Summary of non-conference schedule and the disaster that is Peoria District 150
FWIW - Here's the summary of all the preseason thoughts I have posted about our NON-CONFERENCE opponents:
UMKC .. and MORE
SEMO
North Dakota
Wofford
Wisconsin
BYU or Nevada
Wyoming
Northeastern
George Washington
Drexel
Western Carolina
Michigan
And I just can't ignore the front page story for the PJ Star the past two days running...
how badly the Peoria public schools are doing...
Here are the locations of those two articles...I did not make them a hyperlink - but you can find your way there:
http://www.pjstar.com/news/x948305928/Only-four-District-150-schools-meet-state-testing-standards
http://www.pjstar.com/news/x948306178/Look-at-test-scores-shows-District-150-making-some-progress
Basically they demonstrate that 22 of 26 Peoria public schools is FAILING -- or fall below the MINIMUM testing guidelines!!!
Remember this?? - LINK
That story pointed out how all those failing schools actually get rewarded by the government using tax dollars to buy free breakfast and free lunch for EVERY child in each of those failing schools!!
In other words...if they fail - let's reward them!!!
Someone needs to step up and be accountable. We have privately run schools locally that have WON national and statewide awards for their academic excellence.
http://www.peoriaacademy.org/news/view/congratulations-scholastic-bowl-team/
http://www.peoriaacademy.org/news/http://www.pjstar.com/news/x1742291335/Peoria-Christian-named-2009-Blue-Ribbon-School
http://www.pjstar.com/features/neighbors/x1192320142/Peoria-Christian-gets-award-from-ACT
So.....why are the people who run District 150 or the citizens whose children that distrcit serves -- still willing to allow such POOR performance to persist and such terrible leadership to continue to sit there and collect their HALF-MILLION dollar paycheck??
Nice job Grenita -- didn't you vow we'd see better than this?? Didn't you stake your reputation and career on it?
BTW - District 150 landed millions of dollars in Obama's stimulus money -- where'd it go??
And why are the terms of her million+ dollar contract being kept SECRET???
http://centralillinoisproud.com/fulltext/?nxd_id=182937
http://tellpeoria.com/peoriapundit/tag/grenita-lathan/
http://www.peoriamagazines.com/ibi/2010/aug/dr-grenita-lathan
Need I say -- just about everything associated with District 150 from the TOP on down is an embarrassment to the community.... how can kids who get horrible education ever be expected to get or hold a job or support their families?
Prediction - watch the finger-pointing continue...
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Grenita Lathan was hired and "schooled" by Terry Grier who was hated and feared while Superintendent of Guilford County Schools. He was a master at manipulating numbers to secure one promotion after another (with ridiculously high pay raises) and, obviously, his mentor is bringing more of the same to Peoria.
ReplyDeleteI predict that after a few years she will have "massaged" the standards numbers to make it appear that progress was made.... and she will then leave for a higher profile/higher paying job and someone else will be left to pick up the pieces. That is the legacy of her mentor Grier.