Roane County Schools - Unofficial View

(This is a column published in Roane County News) Imagine if your job was to manage the biggest mass transportation system in the county, the biggest food service business in the county, keep maintenance up on eighteen large buildings totaling 1.2 million square feet that are on average 41 years old, manage over 1,000 networked computers, manage the biggest composite library in the county,

At the November, 2007 School Board meeting, the Board voted 7-3 to extend the contract of Director, Dr. Toni McGriff for two more years. This means that she will be the Director of schools here for 3½ more years. I was one of the seven who voted to extend her contract. I feel there is a lot of misinformation in the community about the job the Director is doing, so I wanted to provide the

One of the most innovative pieces of technology ever for the classroom is the SmartBoard. Roane schools have a number of these in our classrooms. They make teachers more effective and students like them. One of the many benefits of the SmartBoard is that a teachers entire lesson can be captured and stored as a .pdf file, which in turn can be uploaded to a website. Thus, students who miss a

We had a very short and routine Board meeting last night. This is usually the case in December. There was one person who spoke from the audience about the school calendar and made some good points. Setting the calendar is never an easy thing to do. Everyone has a different view of what it should be. Teachers, parents, administration, and Board members all have their own thoughts -- and