It’s been eight months since Carol Johnson left Memphis and left us without a superintendent. Dan Ward was placed into the job on a temporary basis, again eight months ago. Yesterday, a search committee decided to hire a professional search firm to find candidates for the job. Some of you are wondering why it’s taken eight months to begin the search for a new superintendent and why we’re going to pay what will likely be tens of thousands of dollars to find candidates when most employers put an ad in the paper or on-line. One school board member said the district is without leadership during a time when it needs it the most. Why the delay?
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Seems to me there hasn’t been much of a fall off…business as usual in the MCS. It really mirrors every government institution in this county…slow, clueless, completely dominated by cults of personality as opposed to people with integrity, energy and the will to succeed in whatever is done.
Well it is going to be difficult if even possible to find a candidate to rise to the incompetence on Carol “Blue Ribbon” Johnson. Perhaps Willie has another bodyguard friend that has no qualifications that would like a pay raise??
Cheers,
Dirk
They will hire whoever they please after spending thousands of dollars on a “national” search. Why bother? Just put who you want in there and get it over with.
Typical of everything in this city! Even worse, today I read that both city and county property taxes will go up again in order to take care of King Willie’s bodyguards and their new positions. No qualifications needed to work for the city/county just have something in common with the mayors. What could that be you ask…this city is beyond help. Will the last resident please turn out the lights when he/she leaves?
Lil
and of course now another attack on a kid at a school.
yeah, you know I was watching 3 just a second ago and they had a story from Sheffield High School. NO 1 white person was there that I saw……officers, students teachers etc.
It’s Willie’s city and he is proud of the fact that you don’t see a white person at the school, at least not when there’s trouble reported on the news. Poor kids…
Lil
OK, I have tried to post on-topic, but I cannot get the message submitted after several attempts. Let me see it this off-topic post will work. Anyone else having problems submitting rant opinions on this topic?
Great the off-topic gets posted while the on-topic doesn’t. Go figure.
Sorry, did I get off the topic? So much is wrong here, it’s hard to concentrate on Superintendent of Schools.
Lil
No Lil E. White, you are fine. The rant board seems to be rattled at me this evening so I’m just fussing in general. My on-topic posts won’t go through, and I am tired of retyping them. Oh well, such is life.
Hi Jim, I can tell you this. When I type a long post then it times out on me. It does seem to be selective for sure though. Especially if you use a term they have in the system to block out. Then you get blocked for the entire post because of one bad word or unacceptable one.
Censoring, guess it happens at 3 too huh?
It is very funny that on TV they can put in bit*h or other ugly words but they won’t show a person flipping the finger. Is that a hoot or what?
Now they have a rant about the N word and won’t let you type it in for your debate on the topic.
Now, I just really went off topic but, oh welllll
I can’t understand why there is not a line of highly qualified individuals fighting for the opportunity to lead the Memphis City School System and live in our great city. Go figure.
Also, I would have hoped a development plan would have been in place to train Carol Johnson’s replacement. Every company I’ve worked for has requires all managers to complete a talent map, bench & personal development plans so you can continue doing business and EXCEL if the unexpected happens. It’s called PLANNING and COMMON SENSE. I guess the kids in Memphis City Schools are considered “not worth the effort”. Too bad!
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It was happening to me and good ole’ George set me straight!
Welllll, it sure is obvious that this topic is not getting feedback like most. Hmmmm is MCS’ search going slow not moving enough to get rants? NOT, it is not earth shattering enough. OK, let’s start another one and call it Willie’s history in MCS that led it down this rocky corrupt route it is on. Nah, that one won’t fly either. Ohhhhh wellllll
oooh, thanks RP for that tip. It timed out on me allll the time too.
I agree that it would be difficult to find someone for the job to be worse than Carol Johnson – and she left with her good buddy to ruin another school system, just in time to miss out on (1) all the finger pointing at missing/inappropriately used school food $$ cha-ching, and (2) school violence.
I also agree with another blogger, why not just ask Willie who he is going to give the job to and get it over with – why do we need to pay his consultant fees (can you say more kick-backs). Come on Willie, who’s it go’n beez?
The other blogger who mentioned that she say another case of school violence and there were no whites in the crowd.. surely you’re not surprised. Anytime a news camera shows up, they’re jumping behind the person with the mike like the zoo Memfrica has become.
Will they open the search to include more than 13% of the population?
Maybe Willie, in a splendid show of bi-partisanship, could get Carol Chumney to be “intern mayor” and take a shot at the cities’ problems while he took up the mantle of of Supt. of MCS temporarily “FOR THE KID’S SAKE”. At least she would have some ideas on problem solving/concensus building and Willie could try to use his prior experience in the Supt. role to immediately impact this safety crisis in MCS.
I read where kid’s with guns at school will be charged as adults. That’s a start.
Willie led the schools and started them down this primrose path they are on now. He bakrupted the schools then and now here goes the city with bringing in favorites and creating jobs and doubling their salaries for these newly created jobs.
GO Willie humpington
Of course its so slow, blacks run the city. 2+2=4
What about the MCS short list of candidates from when Carol Johnson was chosen? Is no prior applicant worth revisiting or are they just shrieking no!!! and running in the opposite direction? Has “So-Called” no contacts in the educational field?? Or bodyguards that are prepared to step up to the plate??
Proudofmyheritage……What does Sheffield have to do with anything? Were you there? Did you see anything? What does that have to do with finding a superintendent? I attend that school and yes, we have problems (as schools do everywhere) but, we also have love from our teachers, and the people who work there. Not every adult is perfect, but we are loved there. I am hoping to get a superintendent who will run the schools better than the previous person. I think it should be someone who is already in the system. Like a principal or teacher. Someone who knows first hand what’s going on inside the schools.
To Harry Sacks…..first of all is that your given name? If so, um, I’m sorry for you. If not, yes blacks are running the city but look at the stupid name and comment you (a non-black)allowed yourself to place on an intelligent conversation! And correct me if I’m wrong but, aren’t whites shooting up universities? Isn’t one of our Presidential candidates involved in a sex/adultery scandal? Don’t enter an intelligent conversation if you are an ignorant individual. I bet you make your mother proud!!!
Look SOSHS, Yes, I did say not 1 white person was in the shot. The point is that you have a school with a shooting and there are no whites anywhere there. Yes, the white kids have shot up the likes of colleges and Columbine. I give you that and never denied it. The only point trying to be made is that these kids (I guess you’re included if you go there actually) are again running rampant and in the other cases they are isloated instances, as a rule.
The fact remains MCS is screwed up royally and the leadership, nearly all black, seem to be leading it in the wrong directions. the king willie and his court can’t do anything right, ever it seems. They try running things like they run their immoral lives and this is what we have.
Their search is going slow because they aren’t trying to broaden the search toincluded qualified white folks, they want nothgin but the black folks they seemingly always put in these positiions and then still wonder why things are messed up. Now, that is history speaking not my humble opinion. It all started with Willie Humpington and his reign as Supt. and is still heading to the cess pool.
First of all, I thought you were speaking of a fight. Second, I am there daily and I don’t recall ANY shootings. Get your information correct before you decide to talk/write about school incidents. We, at Sheffield HS, have not had any shootings at school. Now, there may have been one in the neighborhood but that has nothing to do with inside the doors of Sheffield. So while the blacks are leading to the wrong directions, what about the whites? Please, if you are over 18, stop making this a race thing. Kids are kids. White, black, mexican, etc. There is something wrong nationally with the schools. O.K. so MCS has issues, but I’ve done a little research and nationally there are just as many white schools having worse issues. Get a grip! This is a national crisis, not a race thing!!!!!
It is indeed a national crisis.
Don’t lecture me on what’s right or wrong. the shootings happen all over. the issue was a fight I was referring too. NOT 1 white person just a bunch of chimps out there being chimps.
Oh my God! You are an ignorant person. Okay, well if blacks are “chimps”, what are the whites that shoot up things? What are the mexicans who commit crimes? Why are you trying to play the race card? Again I ask, were you at my school? How do you know anything about any school? We have had incidences where whites do wrong things, so do the mexicans. And again I ask, what difference does it make what race does the fighting or shooting? You are sounding like a real……..
I think this superintendent should be one of good valler and nice to every one and one that is not worred about the money but the education of ower children but if the council is looking for this person they might as well get a convict to do it so I think that they should pick some one that will stay for a wiel and that will get things done
Unless some natural disaster totally cleans out the buildings on Avery Street nothing will ever change in MCS. I saw this when I left the system several years ago. The leadership would rather let the whole school go to crap than to admit that they made a poor decision and appointed a total nincompoop as principal. The zone supervisor came to school during a faculty meeting to browbeat the teachers into getting in line or else. Board Members announce their arrivals and we the staff are forced to provide a show. Neither are fooled but both parties go along rather than to question the benefit. Of course students are the loosers.
Ya’ll check this out. Got this from another site.
MEMPHIS, TN – Memphis’ reputation as a city with many murders goes back more than century. We spoke with a historian Wednesday, March 5, 2008 to get a history lesson on the crime in Memphis, which was once known as “the murder capitol of the country”.
Ya’ll check this out. Got this from another site.
MEMPHIS, TN – Memphis’ reputation as a city with many murders goes back more than century. We spoke with a historian Wednesday, March 5, 2008 to get a history lesson on the crime in Memphis, which was once known as “the murder capitol of the country”.
“Memphis has a violent background throughout history,” said historian Steve Masler.
In 1921, the New York Times called Memphis the most dangerous city in the country, leading the nation in murders with 58 that year.
Ya’ll check this out. Got this from another site.
MEMPHIS, TN – Memphis’ reputation as a city with many murders goes back more than century. We spoke with a historian Wednesday, March 5, 2008 to get a history lesson on the crime in Memphis, which was once known as “the murder capitol of the country”.
“Memphis has a violent background throughout history,” said historian Steve Masler.
In 1921, the New York Times called Memphis the most dangerous city in the country, leading the nation in murders with 58 that year.
In an editorial from the “New York Sunday Mercury” from 1870, a person wrote, “to those weary of life, but who have not the courage to shoot or hang themselves, we recommend a trip to Memphis.”
Ya’ll check this out. Got this from another site.
MEMPHIS, TN – Memphis’ reputation as a city with many murders goes back more than century. We spoke with a historian Wednesday, March 5, 2008 to get a history lesson on the crime in Memphis, which was once known as “the murder capitol of the country”.
“Memphis has a violent background throughout history,” said historian Steve Masler.
In 1921, the New York Times called Memphis the most dangerous city in the country, leading the nation in murders with 58 that year.
In an editorial from the “New York Sunday Mercury” from 1870, a person wrote, “to those weary of life, but who have not the courage to shoot or hang themselves, we recommend a trip to Memphis.”
Historians say an outbreak of Yellow Fever in the late 1800s contributed to the violence in the Bluff City.
“The number of people left were the poorest of the poor, the people who could not afford to leave. That led to a high amount of illegal activity of people trying to by,” said Masler.