Today the "on line" readers (and perhaps the remaining subscribers) of the JG were treated to an explanation from FWCS board president Mark GiaQuinta about the recent administrative and teacher changes announced by the district. Most of it was blather. When he says "we have a lot of teachers who don't blame parents and students" he should tell us where to find them because they appear to be few and far between. When he asserts Ball State denied a charter to Imagine for a school on Pontiac "because FWCS already has four star schools in the area" he's wrong. They have one such school, Irwin on Anthony, which is a magnet school, to which the district buses kids from neighborhoods where parents do care to a neighborhood where they don't care so that FWCS can point to one school in that area which performs well.
The most telling part of the article is the byline which says we want to retain "Local Control".
Why is local control preferable to state or federal control? For decades we have been electing rubber stamp school boards who take money from local FWCS administrations, local contractors and local architects and the local teachers union. The "E" which stands for Education in "FWEA" is an insult to our intelligence. Local control is about jobs for local adults. The kids don't vote or set salaries or award contracts.
To his credit, GiaQuinta was elected at large (as far as I know) without contributions from vested interests because he had family name recognition. He initiated the 'Balanced Scorecard" as an approach to test score improvement, although after almost three years we have had no public revelation about the results. He's no fool, so why does he suffer fools on the board? Is it so he can stay in control?
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I think there were quite a few of us that wondered where Ball State thought that Croninger was close to the Pontiac sight..maybe that wasn't what Ball State said and the paper mispelled it.
Mark Giaquinta doesn't want the parents of FWCS students to have a choice. He's for busing. Let him annouce the closing of Nebraska and Bloomingdale. Will he be man enough to go into the neighborhoods and talk to the parents???????????
Facts are stubborn things and the facts are that Mr. GiaQuinta is no fool, but that political aspirations continue to force him to sit with fools. There is no doubt that Mr. GiaQuinta would trade in his school board membership for that of mayor or governor. This explains why Mark is so interested in FWCS even though he won't send his daughter to a FWCS high school. I hope people will remember this come November. I also hope that the next school board will support the end of bussing and instead support community schools, cut the fat downtown, and allow teachers to have more of a voice in education.
Mr. GiaQuinta has been quoted in the JG as saying he wants to stick around for another term on the board. Fine, let's see if he can get things turned around so that I no longer have to be embarrased to tell people I graduated from South Side HS and FWCS.
Giving Wendy a no cut contract was not a good start toward that end.
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