Great job Mr. Mitchem and Steve Quigley, you hired the WRONG person for the Principal job!

Do you know who will be the next principal of BHS?  Well, look no further for the truth…

Mr. Fabby Williams will be proud to take such a position as BHS principle, since he has NO immediate positive reputation or  experience to do so.  Matter of fact, he is probably celebrating right now with a bottle of Krystal, as he laughs at the destruction he leaves behind the old school he just literally help collapse. 

We need a strong person with loads of experience and what we are getting is a man who likes to do things his way, regardless of the students scores, quality teachers, and the tax payer demands.  So here’s the story of the "tornado" that is about to hit BHS….

Mr. Williams is the principle at  Austin Polytechnical Academy, the city’s first and only high school dedicated to occupations in high-skill manufacturing for vocational education. Yes, I said a vocational school.  Austin Polytechnical Academy was founded in 2007 to emphasize career training and give students the skills needed to work in advanced manufacturing positions in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.   It has only been open for 4 years.  They are just now graduating their first Senior class.  This short amount of experience does not even start the conversation.  Listen to the rest!

The business academy, whose five-year contract with American Quality Schools runs out in June, focuses on teaching students about business development and exposing them to local opportunities in the field. It has struggled with academic performance and was just placed on probation for the 2010-11 school year.

According to the New York Times, the Teachers blame Mr. Williams for the lack of transparency and communication as the reason for the school’s failure.  Teachers said Mr. Williams almost never attended school assemblies, sporting events and Local School Council meetings. Grievances filed against the administration by teachers went unanswered, teachers said.   The students are picketing and the teachers are picketing, and the Union fights are strongly involved.

To top this off, on his way out he fired a quarter of the teachers… teachers that had great reviews, and then he ensured that 5 of them could no longer teach again.

In addition, they note that Mr. Williams worked most of the year without a permanent administrative credential from C.P.S. Documents show he did not receive the credential until March 14, only two months before he dismissed the teachers. “So here we have someone who is a temporary administrator making a permanent decision on somebody’s career,” said John Kugler, the school’s union representative.

So we ask Mitchem and Quigley the top two questions that come to mind…

1.        Was this guy the only one that applied for the job?

2.      What political clout did he have or how much did he donate?

We also would like to know what the board was planning on telling the public when this truth became known.  Did they do a reference check?  When will Fabby address these concerns?  What will he do differently than he did at his old school?  Remember, school scores were on probation, the school was small, and the teachers must have been bad (right)… So now he goes from failing with 358 students to what, 3400?  The taxpayers want justice for this decision!  We want answers!

To see more, go to:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/us/20bcaustin.html?pagewanted=2

http://bolingbrook.patch.com/articles/report-future-bhs-principal-unresponsive-to-the-interests-of-teachers-and-students