Edgecombe Early College Is Having An Open House For Potential Students Monday January 24, 2011 6:00 PM

Edgecombe Early College located on the Edgecombe Community College Campus Tarboro NC is having an open house for potential students Monday January 24, 2011 at 6 PM.

Note: All children should consider going to the Early College because they could get finish with a 2 year Associate Degree. I wish I could talk my son into going however he likes sports so that is going to be tough. C. Dancy II – DCN Publisher

School Issues: How Do We Deal With Parents?

1.  How do we deal with children whose parents that are not real parents?

2.  How do we deal with parents who are not involved with their children education but goes to work, church and mingle with others who are involved in their children’s education?

3.   At what point do the school system step in and do something with the children who are disrupting the class?

4.   I would love to see a survey done to show how many children that are acting out in class whose parents are not real parents.

5.   At what point and time do the community and the church get involve with the children that we know that do not have real parents?

6.  At what point do the retired educators and other retirees help with dealing with school issues?

7.  Do you as an individual deal with issues involving children that you feel need addressing?

Note: The above questions came to mind while listening to FM 92.1 Morning Show with Bob Barnes.

A teacher called in and talked about:

1.  Dropout rates

2.  Age of teacher

3.  Age of parents

4.  Church involvement

5.  Crack cocaine has messed up our communities. Children are now raising themselves.

The teacher said she just don’t know how we can get it back on track.

Upbringing drives Wake’s point man on school zoning – Source: News & Observer

Upbringing drives Wake’s point man on school zoning

John Tedesco, whose election to the Wake County school board in November helped form a majority against the school system’s policy of busing for economic diversity, has emerged as the group’s front man in its push for neighborhood schools.
Updated Mar. 21, 2010 6:19 AM | Full Story

Many Wake County schools may start later

Most Wake County elementary students could start the school day later as the district alters its schedules this fall to save money.
Updated Mar. 20, 2010 3:31 PM | Full Story

Legislators’ grades weighted – heavily

The N.C. Association of Educators, an organization of mostly teachers, released its grades for legislators Thursday.
Updated Mar. 19, 2010 5:08 AM | Full Story

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School district kids still getting spanked – Source: The Rocky Mount Telegram

The days of taking a hickory paddle to an undisciplined student’s rear end aren’t in the past.

In terms of corporal punishment administration from October 2009 to January 2010, the Nash-Rocky Mount school district ranked second in the state with 296 spankings. Robeson County followed with 167 spankings. Burke County took the No. 1 spot with 325 spankings. The three districts together account for more than 50 percent of the corporal punishment administered in North Carolina. (Read more @ The Rocky Mount Telegram)

Parents, Students and Administrators Who Do You Have To Represent You When You Have School Issues?

Just finished a letter to the Superintendent Office in response to his letter to one of the families that I am working with. Now on my way to the parents so they can sign it so I can send it via email and fax.

I will do another letter for 2 other families tonight and meet with them tomorrow to request a follow-up meeting about their issue.

I have a meeting with the interim Superintendent on Tuesday his first day at work. I always go sit down and meet with the new Superintendent to let them know that I am an advocate for children, parents and administrators if they should contact me for assistance.

I am an advocate for the children especially because they really do not have anyone to represent them. Parents really don’t know how to work the system and what steps to take so that is where I come in. I have been an advocate long before I had a child in the system.

The staff has the principal, the superintendent, the board of education and their lawyer and the NCAE to represent them. The principal has the superintendent, the board of education and their lawyer and the NCAE.

If you are a parent I ask the question, who do you have?

ATTORNEY WARNS NHC SCHOOL SYSTEM RUNS LAWSUIT RISK by Cash Michaels

A local civil litigation attorney, who specializes in public entities/municipalities law, has cautioned the NHC School Board that if it decides to increase the percentage of free and reduced lunch students (F&R) in Wilmington’s Williston and D.C. Virgo middle schools beyond 50 percent for the sake of maintaining neighborhood schools, it could face a federal complaint from the NC NAACP similar to what the civil rights group announced against the Wayne County Public School System last week. (Read more @ The Wilmington Journal)

We Are Always Talking About Our Children Go Away And Don’t Come Back But Check Out What beGlobal Founder Is Doing

Quenesha McNair is one who I had the privilege of working with in little old Pinetops NC when she was in the group called (A.A.I.R.) Adolescence Against Irresponsible Recreation. This was a children’s group with their own officers. However we the adults were the overseer of the group and we were called (P.A.I.R.) People Against Irresponsible Recreation where by I served as an officer. We more than likely went with that name because all of us at that time were not parents.

Quenesha is different from many of those who have gone away and has not come back to give back. She is different also because she is not an athlete and is not a millionaire. She is a business person and she is reaching out to the children trying to get them to be productive and professional in high school before entering into the real world. She want them to understand that in order to be successful in whatever career path they chooses that they must understand that they first must go through high school and that it makes a difference how they carry themselves.

Because of Quenesha passion for children see what she is trying to do in the Rocky Mount area for some much needed children who have lost their mothers. Folks it is not about the women and how they lived but all about the children. These children need some love because they have lost a precious jewel and a part of life that nothing and no one no matter how much we give will ever take the place of their lost.

Quenesha resides in the Maryland area and is the founder of beGlobal. She is not only doing things in her hometown but she is doing things globally.

So what are we doing to help support one of our own? Some of us can help out monetarily and in other ways. Those can’t help out in any way at the moment can help out by encouraging Quenesha by picking up the phone and/or sending her an email and just let her know you appreciate what she is doing.

Since I operate out of pocket The DCN is limited to what it can do however I will be making a monetary donation in 2010.

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I Read A Letter In The Daily Southerner Written By Dr. Evelyn Johnson About “Morals And Values, Oh My”

First of all I didn’t need to stumble across this because I am fed up with what is going on in Tarboro/Edgecombe County. I am sick and tired of folks acting as if they are all about the children and Tarboro/Edgecombe County moving forward when they are holding us just where we are.

I called in to a local radio station on yesterday releasing my frustration about what is going on around us.

I want to address the following statement from Dr. Johnson’s letter to the editor, “For years we’ve developed beautiful plans illustrating how schools, churches, communities work together. It sounds good, but why is it so difficult to get the groups to form teams that continuously work cooperatively to improve the community?”

The schools: We have many issues and they are not only issues with our children but with some educators as well. Now so many folks talk about what the parents and children are not doing, well I don’t meet that description so I am going to talk from an involved parent position.

I have been actively involved as an advocate for children long before I had a child in the system. Many folks said in the early 90’s I ought to be glad I didn’t have a child in the system.

I have served on the school’s PTO, School Improvement Team, Board of Education Advisory Committee, Closing the Achievement Gap Committee and other school related initiatives. I have attended the school board meetings faithfully over the years until I just got fed up with going when many times there were no other parents present. The schools say they want parental involvement but I came to the conclusion years ago that is a damn lie.

Look at the age of the school board members and how long they have been on the board. Look at how many of them have children in the system and if they do not, are they really fighting for other folks children.

The churches: I have not seen the churches truly involved over the years. But when there is an issue at the school some pastors will get involved as if they are concerned. Hell they knew there were issues before they were asked to get involved but have chosen to be a safe Negro.

What programs are set up in the local churches to help the youth? Every now and then things are put in place for the so-called at-risk children when in fact all of the children are at-risk. Hell we as black men are at-risk.

Communities: I am going to incorporate community organizations into this category. What is going on in our communities to help our children? What are the community based organizations: School Alumni groups, NAACP, Fraternities, Sororities, Masons, Eastern Stars and others doing to help the children during the school year? It is good to give out scholarships at the end of the school year but the children catch hell all year long.

Where is the retired educators in the communities? What are they doing?

Hell we have allowed other folks to do things in our school system and the Alumni groups set back and didn’t say a word. Look at G.W. Carver in Pinetops. They took the gym and made it an auditorium with carpet throughout the whole gym. They were talking about naming the gym after a white P.E. teacher and I said what in the hell has he done in the community? Hell I don’t even think he lived in the area. I spoke to the Alumni President at that time and asked them why they were not involved in what goes on at the school. Hell for a long time there were no picture of the black principal Samuel A. Gilliam in the school.

I had joined the Alumni as an associated member but dropped out after the 1st year because I had a problem with attending meetings at the school and no Alumni members attended so I had to fight these devils all by myself.

The children: The children are crying for help especially those who are not on the at-risk list. They are being ignored as if they are like we are, I got mines so let the others get theirs. The children want to go to school in a safe and productive environment. They want to learn however they want to be taught and challenged as well. Some of these children who are not at-risk come from some single family homes and other just like those we label at-risk.

My question, in my dealings with the school system serving on the PTO, School Improvement Team and etc., Community Organizations and etc. is when are we going to change the way we do things. We continue to do the same old b.s. and keep getting the same results. I am convinced many don’t want change.

We use our children. During events like Dr. MLK Celebrations and other we use our children to write beautiful essays and they get their moment of fame for a day or 2. During the main event breakfast, banquet and/or etc. the top prize winner get to read their speech and sometimes the 2nd place does but the 3rd place do not. Hell one time a year these children will be recognized but if they are not the top prize winner they are really a nobody.

How many times do we see the children being invited to speak to a standing room only gathering be it during the Dr. MLK Celebrations, NAACP, other organizational banquets and/or etc?

Why we can’t come together? Because the adults are stuck on damn titles. I am so and so, Rev., Rev. Dr., Dr., President, Chair and this and that, while we are losing our children.

Morals: The children are watching us. They see how damn ignant we are. We support adult criminals but yet our children are just doing children things and we write them the hell off.

We allow certain folks in our communities for example, a so-called Rev. to attack one of our young leaders and we sit back silent. We allow the news media to help push the agenda to destroy our leadership and we sit back silent. Not only did he attack that leader but continuously keep confusion in meetings throughout the county. The person is now the chair of the Edgecombe County Human Relations Commission under the direction of the Edgecombe County Commissioners which is now a black majority. What in the hell kind of message are we sending to our children?

But when we as a black people try to get something in the local newspapers that will send positive messages to our communities they will not print that.

For instance this letter to the editor from Dr. Johnson a former Edgecombe County Educator made the paper because it is about a little black child and she talks about how we are not together. In my opinion if the racist newspaper thought for one minute that black folks are going to come together they would not have printed it. I say this strongly because of my dealings with the paper and from tracking the local newspapers in the area. I have talked to many black folks who have written letters to the editor and they were not published.

I am convinced that the leaders I have dealt with since the 90’s are not going to come together. I know all of them and what they are all about and the results are in.

Dr. Johnson I read you,  “Tarboro/Edgecombe County:   How many more headlines do we need to read about the enemy preying on our youth before we make some changes?”

But my question is, “Why should it take a headline for us to get it?” We all know what is going on in our communities that we live, work and play but we wait for the headlines. I am aware, I talk to people all the time so therefore I am not moved by headlines alone but by that which I see in the community, that I know and that I hear from people weekly.

I have decided that I am going to change the way I do things.

Curmilus Dancy II – DCN Publisher

 

The North Carolina Committee on Dropout Prevention Schedules Meetings

The North Carolina Committee

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Dropout Prevention Schedules Meetings

The North Carolina Committee on Dropout Prevention will meet via Webinar on Monday, Nov. 2, from 2:00pm – 3:00p.m., to review the evaluation of 2007 and 2008 dropout prevention grant programs.  Members of the public who would like to attend may register at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/377029616 .

The North Carolina Committee on Dropout Prevention will also meet Nov. 16-18 at Wake Technical Community College, Western Wake Campus located in Millpond Village, 3434 Kildaire Farm Road, Cary. Agenda items include awarding 2009 grants and review of a procedures manual. The meeting will begin at 10:00a.m on Nov. 16 and 9:00a.m on Nov. 17-18.

For more information on either of these meetings, please contact Debora Williams at dwilliams@dpi.state.nc.us or 919.807.3925 or 919.807.3912.

North Carolina – Education Lottery Money Is Given To Students Entering Colleges

I know it to be factual that some students receive college scholarships from the lottery because my child did. I will continue to participate in the lottery because not only will my few dollars help my child but other children as well. This is a worthwhile investment. Lottery funds are helping our children so for all the naysayers who say monies do not go towards education, I beg the differ. C. Dancy II DCN Publisher

Lottery Transfers Over $115 Million to Education Fund

RALEIGH- Today, the North Carolina Education Lottery (NCEL) transferred over $115 million to the State Education Lottery Fund. This transfer brings the overall tally of funds that the NCEL has generated for the education fund to over $1.25 billion. 

“All of us here at the NCEL are so pleased that we have been able to continue to generate good sales and once again transfer a substantial amount to the designated education programs,” said Tom Shaheen, NCEL executive director. “We are only able to accomplish this with the help of our hard working retail partners and the citizens who play our games.” 

The NCEL made the electronic transfer to the Office of State Budget and Management (OSBM) this morning. 

The Lottery Act designates that 50 percent of proceeds is to be split between pre-kindergarten programs for at-risk four year olds and class size reduction in the early grades; 40 percent to school construction; and 10 percent to college scholarships. 

Since inception (March 30, 2006) through Oct. 21, 2009, the NCEL has surpassed $3.9 billion total gross sales with anticipation of surpassing $4 billion in November. Over 95 cents of every dollar is returned to North Carolina in the form of beneficiary programs, prizes and retailer commissions.

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Edgecombe County – Schools DropOut Rate In The News Again

The dropout rate has been an issue among some of us who have been actively engaged in our local school systems in the Twin County for many years. Now see what a national non-profit group is calling for.

 

Education – Nash-Rocky Mount Public Schools Board Meeting This Week

I attended the Nash-Rocky Mount Public Schools Board of Education Meeting on this past Monday after attending a meeting the previous week whereby Rev. Ethan Arrington pastor of New Destiny Church held a meeting at St. Luke Church in Nashville NC. The church was filled and many spoke of the issues they had with the Nash-Rocky Mount Public Schools system. They named several schools.

I attended and videoed the BOE meeting this past week. As usual Rev. Robert Bynum board member (black male) always ask the right questions and say the right things.

It was so funny that one of the other black board members came up to me after the meeting and said, “What are you doing here, working?” Come on now that person know that I video for myself and don’t get paid to do it so I don’t call it working.

Video of the meeting coming soon.

Speaking Truth To Power – President Obama Speech to Students

So what was the damn problem with this speech? I didn’t read it yesterday because I wanted to see it on video since I would be at work during the time it would be shown live. The message was right on target. C. Dancy II – DCN Publisher

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Twin Counties – President’s school address draws GOP fire

What a damn shame. All through school I was told that we all could be President even the black man. Now that we have an intelligent black man as our 44th President, racist white folks and safe Negroes are showing just how ignant they are. I am talking about the safe Negroes in the GOP especially. This shows me that these folks are inferior of an intelligent forward thinking black man. C. Dancy II – DCN Publisher

When students return to school in the Twin Counties on Tuesday, they’ll be greeted with a message from President Barack Obama about the importance of education and hard work in achieving their dreams.

But conservative critics say Obama’s planned televised address to schools is a veiled attempt to indoctrinate students with a left-leaning political agenda. (The Rocky Mount Telegram)

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