Marci Shearon will leave at the end of the year. She and the school have been through some rough patches (Coach Lolar flap, Jodi Sanderholm tragedy, latest violence at school flap) but all and all it seems like her four-plus years there has been successful — graduation rates improving and recent national recognition, and assessments in reading and math seem to have improved.
Interesting to read about her accepting the post back in 2004
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I understand Marci has been under pressure from someone- not sure who and everyone is keeping mum about it but she herself said she wasn't going to put up with it anymore.
I am sure she has been under pressure, especially this year with all the crap going on at the high school.
Obviously, ACHS is not the place it used to be. Lots of turnover in the last few years.
I am guessing morale isn't at a very high level these days.
Too bad the Traveler and other media around here feel it is appropriate to blow things out of proportion and demonize people, with sources like rumors and text messaging from teenagers. Seems everything is going to the ways of CNN, MSNBC, and FOX NEWS - thinking we must know everything about everyone and of course use there names.
When a parent decides to enroll a kid in a different district or school, does the whole town really need to know? If a CFO gets let go, does the whole town need to know - with her name included? Maybe the traveler needs to respect the towns people a little more.
When a parent decides to enroll their student in another district, that is not news. When that parent is a BOE member, that is.
Further, the issue of texting by students at the High School is not news. The administrations indifference, and lack of any pro-active plan to deal with ongoing fighting, bullying and violence is. The administration does its very best to white wash, and put everything in a positive light, but there are problems which can not be ignored.
the CFO of a major company that will be using taxpayer dollars to build a new facility being fired is news....
Lord don't let me child grow up to be a public servant in Ark City! I can't think of anything worse.
When are parents going to take care of their children? You leave it up to the schools to discipline your child when you should have done it long ago.
The problem is we have too many parents who won't take the responsbility for their child. The quality of administrators and teachers will slowly fall because no one is going to want to do these jobs because they will never be good enough for your "little angels"
I would have to agree w/ the person @ 6:56. Schools are there to teach things like reading, writing, math, science, etc. When I went ot school (20 odd years ago), that's what it was for, not to teach kids fundemental discipline. We did have discipline, in the the form of a paddle, even up into High school. The Admins had to have parental consent, but the majority of parents ok'd it (I remember a parent coming in and paddling his kid, because he didn't want the priciple doing it). Then we got all politically correct in the '90s. Now you even look at a kid wrong, and THEY can bring you up on harrassment.
I am not going to say there wasn't any validity to what Reese did, but when they said in the paper that they "asked" their kids to go to school on that "gun-day" Friday, and they said no, there are problems at home. Again, change of the times. We weren't "asked" to go to school, we were told to go. Only times we didn't go to school was if it was a snow day, or you were too sick to drag your butt out of bed. And speaking of gun-day, half the trucks in the parking lot at my HS had guns in them during hunting season (rabbit, squirral, deer, quail, dove, duck, etc). They weren't allowed to bring them on school grounds, and the admins discouraged the practice of leaving them in your truck (they might get stolen), but they knew a lot of kids hunted before and after school between Sept and Jan.
I liked the hard news the last couple of weeks. I disagree with sadforAC. If a CFO gets let go it is news and their name should go with the title (no brainer). It's a newspaper not a Christmas card.
You're barking up the wrong tree if you are asking for respect from the Traveler (at least with David Allen and James that is)they would only give that consideration to themselves or their own not us commoners.
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