I disagree with you your assumption that he seized an opportunity to "jab his fellow Board Members." Alex presented "facts" the voting recordings of all board members including himself, I'm not sure why this is troubling to you.
I disagreed with D'Andrea's tax and spend leadership. She along with most board members already had their minds made up in favor of the "Greenville Plan" with little regard to public outcry against it.
I'm glad D'Andrea made the right choice in resigning. It's a pity board members didn't make the right choice in allowing her decision to become effective immediately, instead of two months later costing the taxpayer, here again Alex, stood alone.
It'll be a greater pity when the sleeping giant awakens. "Our children's children" will have to learn they have been saddled with millions of dollars by school board members not to mention the stimulus package they will have to pay back. We need more fiscally conservative people like Alex and less with an elitist’s mentality.
Lisa Flaugher
Pickens
Second, the money Dr. D'Andrea borrowed has a rate of 2% on it...when we started it was in an account making about 4%! For those Wall Street types who don't know any better and those that support them, that's called profit. I was unaware that profit was called "tax and spend" as someone has called it.
Third, there were many changes under Dr. D'Andrea in the area of legal compliance. She attempted to force local schools to be properly trained in 504 law (which protects all students). If she had the support of people on the school board our principals and teachers might have all been properly trained. As it stands now, the US Dept of Ed reported in it's findings that "it never occured to 'him'" to follow the law refering to an assistant principal!
To bad people let politics get in the way of saving money, making money and protecting education. Maybe we can correct some of that this election year.
15 years from now the Education system in Pickens county will not have improved one bit because money spent doesn't equal success. But our kids will have some snazzy buildings to fail in.
Dr. D'Andrea was not a tax and spend leader. She was given the task of raising the educational bar for Pickens County. For too long, this School System has been controlled by a group of "good ole boys' who have wanted to maintain a political power base using the school district board, and have listened to people who rail against taxes in general. You can't have it both ways - there must be a certain amount of taxes paid and spent on education if it is to succeed.
The previous admin, and its temporary return, is once again whacking away at the progress made and will once again have the school system in a regressive state, as it has been for years and years.
The future of our children is at stake and too many people are trying to control it. Saitta doesn't have any busy on the board, he home schools his kids and could careless about the quality of education in our county. Ever checked out his background - pretty interesting...