Chatham Chatlist Highlights

Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 21:29:52 -0400
From: Jeff Lane
Subject: About BOE Meetings and schools…

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 13:44, Chatham Chatlist wrote:
1. They are using more technology (projectors and wireless laptops) at the meetings. At some schools there have been difficulties getting it set up, as well as the staff having to drag equipment back and forth.

Perhaps the BOE should continue having their meetings at these very inconvenient locations until they figure out how to ensure that all the schools can support what is, in today’s world, very basic technology.

I don’t want to ruffle feathers, but it sounds a lot like they were having problems using common business tools in certain schools, but not in others.  So it really makes it sound like, and excuse the paraphrasing: “All Chatham County Schools are created equal, but some are more equal than others.”

Just wondering, because that statement, and some others in that explanation about the BOE’s decision to hold meetings at one particular location, sounds pretty bad.  It sounds a lot like the disparities in various county schools are bad enough that even the BOE can’t conduct business there as they’d like to.

Like I said, just wondering…