Info from last night’s Fayette County School board meeting:
Tyler Murphy ( FCPS School Board Chair) and the rest of the Fayette County Public Schools Board voted unanimously to approve a graduation waiver for FCPS students who are failing. The goal was to “make a way for failing students to graduate”.
Instead of “making a way” for 39k of 41k FCPS students to return to their classroom this week and learn the necessary skills to graduate, they’re busy making a way for failing students to graduate while virtual!
They admitted they have enough drivers to send at least 39k of the 41k students (95%) back to class and even laughed at the parents who were volunteering to provide transportation for their students so that the district could focus their limited resources on a smaller population. Apparently we parents don’t understand simple math.
Interesting enough we learned on the call that Tyler and fellow board member Amy Green have been coordinating meetings with the legislature, Fayette County Education Association - FCEA (Jessica Hiler) and their lobbying firm Babbage Cofounder. These meetings appear to have been conducted behind the scenes, and without informing the rest of the board, to the dismay of former board chair Stephanie Spires. Stephanie said she found out the meeting happened by reading about it on Twitter. It also sounds like the meeting may have covered topics that were not officially decided as items the board agreed to.
They say they don’t have the resources to open all of our schools back up but expenses are ~$28 million less than PY on equal revenue!! You could pay a lot of bus drivers with $28 million. You could also afford to give teachers hazard pay for having to continue fighting a losing battle with virtual education while you defer your responsibilities to the district.
Perhaps it’s time for Tyler to become a School Board Member in the district he teaches in, which is Boyle County.
