Split Personality And Other CMS Disorders
Like, I don’t know, congenital lying; how else to explain the complete disconnect between statements being made by Superintendent Peter Gorman and top CMS brass, in the wake of the hand grenade recommendations lobbed in the public’s lap to close a dozen schools and ensure wholesale upheaval at scores more.
First we have Gorman on WBT, trying to ease community angst over myriad unanswered questions and concerns, addressing the convoluted and often seemingly haphazard proposals for change and ensuring that there is a method to the apparent madness, explaining that CMS has “been working on this for nine months.”
Then we have CMS staff, essentially conceding that they’re flying blind and still scrambling for specifics. This from TCO:
The CMS staff plans to do another presentation for the board on Monday. However, it won’t have all the answers for the anxious parents and teachers who’ve been calling and e-mailing board members.
“There are a lot of unknowns,” said Dennis LaCaria, planning specialist for the district. “We didn’t want to spend time and expense on this until the board told us we were going in the right direction.”
Now, the staff has launched an impact study, including how much the changes will cost, how much could be saved, how many students will be involved, and whether more layoffs will be required.
In the latter case, district staff says the savings from closing some buildings might actually prevent more layoffs.
So Gorman & Co. have been working for nine months on a set of sweeping recommendations, but have yet to study exactly how much they will cost, how much could be saved, and how many students and families could have their worlds turned upside down?
Unpossible. No, there has to be some other explanation. I wonder what, oh what, that could be?
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