School Board is poorly managing public resources
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G. Robert Jones
Published: July 9, 2008
Whether from official comment or individual capacity, the apologists for David Cox’s termination as school superintendent are experts at “blowing smoke.”
In the thousands of words printed since the announcement of Dr. Cox’s “change in status,” no real justification for his removal has been offered other than perhaps his ability to negotiate a personally advantageous contract.
Such deflection as exhibited by School Board members is behavior usually reserved for children — not for responsible adults.
The real insult to the intelligence of the Culpeper community is that the excuses for such nonsense as the timing and lack of reason behind the termination are called “politics” or a “system which virtually guarantees community conflict. This is to place blame on no one.”
Blame can be placed, gentlemen and ladies, on the people elected to make judicious decisions on behalf of their constituents. Those same people are supposed to have the courage and intelligence to deal with “the system” and “politics,” or they have no business accepting their offices.
But the real victims here, as always, are those individuals and families who must pay with their taxes for their elected officials’ mistakes, and their children who will suffer the most from an un-forgivable mismanagement of public resources.
G. Robert Jones
Locust Grove
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Posted by ( cul_peper ) on July 10, 2008 at 6:43 am
Is Locust Grove part of Culpeper? If not, why all the indignation and angst about a Culpeper school issue. Donna Kemp wanted to run the Town of Culpeper from Locust Grove. I guess Mr. Jones wants to run the school system. Anyone else from Locust Grove want to run the county government now?
However, I too am unhappy with the prospect of paying huge sums to the departed school superintendent. But, the school board knows more than I do and must have had valid reasons to part ways with Dr. Cox. Whether the five who voted for it are right or wrong will come out some time. The reasons for it may never come out. However, I would think that the members, who voted for such a drastic move, knew of the financial consequences, understood the criticism they would face because of it, yet they still took the action they felt letting Cox go was necessary. In essence they stood up for what they believed was best for the school system and put aside the criticism they knew they faced.
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