{"id":2274,"date":"2011-03-26T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/the-cuee-board-not-quite-all-city.html"},"modified":"2011-03-26T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T13:00:00","slug":"the-cuee-board-not-quite-all-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/the-cuee-board-not-quite-all-city.html","title":{"rendered":"The CUEE Board: not quite all city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QiyQ09W-MV0\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/QiyQ09W-MV0\/default.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nLet&#8217;s meet<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QiyQ09W-MV0\"><br \/>\nthe CUEE board<\/a> and ask them a simple question.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Chair, Leroy Butler, named them in this order:<br \/>\nRusty Griffin (Vice-Chair), George Bennett,<br \/>\nTom Kurrie,<br \/>\nWalter Hobgood,<br \/>\nJohnny Ball,<br \/>\nJack Edwards,<br \/>\nJud Rackley,<br \/>\nGene Godfrey,<br \/>\nand &#8220;last but certainly not least&#8221;<br \/>\nRuth Council.<br \/>\n(Not named but listed<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cueeinc.com\/board.html\"><br \/>\non CUEE&#8217;s website<\/a> are<br \/>\nDavid Durland,<br \/>\nTerry Hunt,<br \/>\nand Ronnie Mathis.)<\/p>\n<p>\nAs I told Rusty Griffin, I congratulate CUEE on holding public meetings<br \/>\nabout their plans.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QiyQ09W-MV0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<small>Kick-off meeting, 24 March 2011,<br \/>\nCommunity Unification for Educational Excellence, Inc., CUEE,<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re for consolidation of the Valdosta and Lowndes County School Systems.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVideos by John S. Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.<br \/>\n<\/small><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s the question:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nHow many of the current CUEE board are from the county<br \/>\noutside of Valdosta?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cShhvdjB6vM\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/cShhvdjB6vM\/default.jpg\"><br \/>\nOnly<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cShhvdjB6vM\"><br \/>\ntheir chairman will admit to that.<\/a><br \/>\nSo it looks like the answer is one county member out of all those<br \/>\nboard members we just saw.<br \/>\nOr maybe none of the rest of them want to admit to being from the county.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cShhvdjB6vM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nRemember,<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/03\/school-consolidation-cuue-kick-off-event-tonight.html\"><br \/>\ntheir motto is:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIt&#8217;s Your <strong>Decision.<\/strong> It&#8217;s Your <strong>Choice.<\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yet they got this far with a board of whom only one will admit to being from<br \/>\nthe county outside Valdosta.<br \/>\nA board that&#8217;s recommending a referendum on which nobody outside<br \/>\nthe city of Valdosta gets to vote.<br \/>\nSounds to me it&#8217;s a small group of Valdosta people who want to decide<br \/>\nfor the entire county.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe chairman mentioned that the question goes to credibility.<br \/>\nWhy yes, it does.<br \/>\nI know this because I submitted the question.<br \/>\nI asked them the same question back in May 2010, so they&#8217;ve had plenty of time to fix this credibility problem.<br \/>\nIf, as their chairman said, &#8220;everyone is a stakeholder&#8221;,<br \/>\nwhy is the county not represented equally in CUEE?<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n<p>\nPS: That was the last question read aloud.<br \/>\nThe chairman said those were all the questions they had.<br \/>\nIn the<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QiyQ09W-MV0\"><br \/>\nvideo of the introduction of the board members,<\/a><br \/>\nyou can see Rev. Floyd Rose in the back of the room<br \/>\nasking why none of his questions were read out.<br \/>\nIt seems the chairman mis-spoke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s meet the CUEE board and ask them a simple question. The Chair, Leroy Butler, named them in this order: Rusty Griffin (Vice-Chair), George Bennett, Tom Kurrie, Walter Hobgood, Johnny Ball, Jack Edwards, Jud Rackley, Gene Godfrey, and &#8220;last but certainly not least&#8221; Ruth Council. (Not named but listed on CUEE&#8217;s website are David Durland, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1376,15,49,1105,1106],"tags":[4616,1636,8829,548,4617,8702,12,7,4618,6],"class_list":["post-2274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cuee","category-education","category-elections","category-lcboe","category-vboe","tag-community-unification-for-educational-excellence","tag-consolidation","tag-cuee","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-kick-off","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-school-systems","tag-valdosta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}