Guilt By Association?

It was suggested in one of the comments to a previous post that by referring to the Central Office Administrators I am unfairly grouping some good administrators in with Dr. Holliday and his Baldrige buddies. I have to admit that is probably a valid statement. Regrettably, I don't have a decoder to tell the good from the bad. And I am not saying that everything that Dr. Holliday and his buddies have done is bad. For example, I do think that Dr. Holliday is working hard to keep all I-SS teachers employed. Unfortunately there are about 70 teacher assistants who are about to lose their jobs.

When I first started this blog I was just using the term administrators. My wife suggested that I say Central Office Administrators instead so that everyone would know that I was not including principals and assistant principals. We both knew that there were many good principals and assistant principals in the school system and that I was talking about what was being done by employees who were classified as Central Office Administrators. Sadly, ever since I started questioning the actions of I-SS officials and asking for access to school records, the interactions I have had with Central Office Administrator have been far less than helpful, cordial.

Now that Dr. Holliday has directed me not to contact any Central Office Administrator, my only observation of these administrators is at the I-SS Committee of the Whole meetings and the regular School Board meetings. Since the School Board and Dr. Holliday control these meetings, what one observes at these meetings is only that which Dr. Holliday wants everyone to observe.