Press Release: W.A. Pattillo Names Jennifer Craddock Star Teacher

Interesting Comments About SouthWest Edgecombe High School Testing Probe

In response to: Pinetops NC: SouthWest Edgecombe High School Principal John Westberg Has Been Moved To Phillips Middle School As An Assistant Principal And Raymond Privott Will Continue To Serve As The Interim Principal

Are you sure your source is correct on Westburg’s reassignment to Phillips School? Phillips has not had an Assistant Principal in several years due to low enrollment. The new Principal, who will start after students return from the holidays, was Assistant Principal at West Edgecombe. His former AP position is vacant, in addition to the AP position at W. A. Pattillo Elementary. In Edgecombe County, Assistant Principals are testing coordinators for middle schools on down. If Westburg was alledgedly involved in testing procedures at the high school, why put him in the midst of testing procedures at another school? Is anyone thinking about the credibility of the school system, the children and the “experts” involved in school testing? Has this been going on at the school and he just continued doing it, did he bring this type of behavior with him from his previous school or is this something that should be looked at since it involved student athletes? Parents in Edgecombe County should be very concerned about the quality of education that their children are receiving. Who is involved in the interviewing process and just how is it handled when hiring someone outside the county? Nepotism has no place in education or anywhere else. However, Edgecombe County school system is known for its politics. It’s time to “wake up” in the words of Spike Lee in school days. The mind is too important to waste. We will always get what we always get in education because we always sit quietly by and do what we always do….nothing…insanity.

Note: This sounds like someone that may be from the inside or atleast an educator. Oh well interesting. Very!! C. Dancy II – DCN Publisher

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(Correction) SouthWest Edgecombe High School Former Principal John Westberg Moved To W.A. Pattillo Elementary

Sources say John Westberg has been moved to W.A. Pattillo as an assistant principal instead of Phillips Middle School as I posted earlier. The source had told me W.A. Pattillo but for some reason I posted Phillips.

The parents at W.A. Pattillo ought to be outraged. But the problem with that is the parents probably do not know about Westberg being moved to their school to replace the assistant principal that has gotten another job in Halifax County.

Sources say Westberg tried to put the blame on the former assistant principal Darrell Richardson who was moved to Roberson Center for Education Achievement (alternative school) during the summer before the scandal came about. Westberg trying to put the blame on Richardson didn’t work.

Sources say about 38 children were involved in the testing probe.

My question again is why does this man still have a job in the Edgecombe County Public Schools system?

Several people have also told me that they are not impressed with the new Superintendent Wayne M. Talley and they are going to resign and/or retire from the Edgecombe County Public Schools System. Talley replaced outgoing Superintendent Craig Witherspoon who left to head up the Birmingham Public Schools Systems.

Note: I wonder why things that goes on at SouthWest are so quiet but then again it has always been that way. I just wonder would it be that quiet if Westberg was black? Oh well just saying.

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