http://www2.morganton.com/content/2009/oct/26/sain-stop-and-think-you-vote/news-opinion/
Showing posts with label karenbrittainsain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label karenbrittainsain. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Pointing Fingers
"If folks want to wonder about how our school system has been operated. (Pointing his finger at the crowd) Right here is how its been"
-Tim Buff blaming the public for how the school system has been run.
"Look at yourself in the mirror" (wagging her finger or pencil at the crowd)
-Karen Sain
Karen and Tim,
Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.
PS Any comments will automatically be emailed to Tim and Karen
PSS Yeah right Karen, your ring is too small.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Sheriff asked to frisk school board member for gun
http://www2.morganton.com/content/2009/apr/07/sheriff-frisks-school-board-member/news-local/
So David Barnard and Karen Sain think Buddy Armor brings a gun to every meeting.
They tell the Sheriff.
Sheriff searches Buddy and his car.
Finds nothing.
So David Barnard and Karen Sain think Buddy Armor brings a gun to every meeting.
They tell the Sheriff.
Sheriff searches Buddy and his car.
Finds nothing.
Friday, February 1, 2008
Failed 5 - 2
Another Burke County Principal goes up and gets voted down.
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
-Mark Twain
Friday, December 21, 2007
Merry Christmas
A couple of holiday links for you.
The Four
http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1647250669
Tim
http://www.scroogeyourself.com/?id=1647832375
Tracy
http://www.scroogeyourself.com/?id=1647918679
Karen
http://www.scroogeyourself.com/?id=1648012548
Rob
http://www.scroogeyourself.com/?id=1648092979
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
And the New Draughn Principal is...
We don't know. Apparently, Tim, Tracy, Rob, and Karen didn't like David B's recommendation. More to come.
Friday, November 9, 2007
Comment worth posting
This was a comment worthing of posting...
I've read this article several times, and here are a few comments that I would like to make:
Karen Brittain Sain: As a nurse, she is entrusted with patients' lives. As a board member, she'll be entrusted with students' lives.
This is a self-glamorizing statement. It is overkill and over-the-top.
Mr. Buff was asked: What will you do to restore respect to the board and the school system? He said: Continue to be accountable to the school system and the community; to be accountable and open and above board.
This is just a nothing statement directed at both the administrative and the classified levels as being ineffective.
Mr. Hairfield was asked: What will you do to provide support for the superintendent and principals? He said: Focus on accountability. There is ample money in the system to reallocate to principals to make sure they have the necessary resources. This will eliminate the need for student fundraisers.
What you say, Mr. Hairfield, is actually true - there is plenty of total money - but what you don’t understand or know is that there will never be a clean and efficient distribution of that money. School districts have little ability or total control – they are restricted by state, federal, and local laws – of how to allocate those funds. I’m sure our finance people do the best they can and firing Randall Brackett is not the answer, as much as you would like it to be.
But let’s not stop there – let’s be bold and list a few of the jobs that should be eliminated, like, One currently being advertised, EC Health Information Manager: What the heck is this?? We have OT’s, PT’s, Psychologists, Speech Personnel, Physical Educators, Behavioral Specialists, Interpreters, and now School Nurses. I’d like to know why this position will exist and for what purpose. It sounds to me like a job trying to be squeezed in before the new board takes its place.
Safety Director. Why do we need a Safety Director to send out 8x10 brochures telling us to be careful not to trip and fall in the winter, to turn out the lights and to remember to close the doors? Who actually reads the paperwork that comes from this particular office? And what’s the percentage of staff that then lie by signing our names to those questionnaires indicating that we do read them? Surely, Mr. Burleson wouldn’t mind attaching this information to a few of his current emails that he sends out to everyone, in effect accomplishing the same thing, and being more effective, efficient, and less wasteful of paper resources, in his approach!
Mr. ID Badge-Taker/Photographer: Why not put capable machines into the schools that secretaries or principals can use to create a badge for each of their faculty? And, equipping each school with a few cameras would take care of getting enough pictures. These are not hard things to do.
And finally, to address your comment about the need to eliminate student fundraisers-For years and years it has long been the battle cry, and is as common as the day is long, of incoming politicians to espouse the cause of cutting student fundraisers. Lots of people want to cut them out. It is a point stated all over the country all of the time. Why? Because it plays well with parents who hate fundraisers, teachers who get tired of handing out the packets, and all staff who see money wasted on frivolous things, such as paying board members or hiring unneeded positions or even, in some people's minds, purchasing textbooks that aren’t needed because everything is online these days. Do you really think that smart, highly educated and qualified teachers and principals would hold fundraisers in the first place if they weren’t needed? The fact is, they are needed and they do produce funding in order to help children’s education.
As a matter of fact, I'd like to see a list of the fundraisers, festivals, wreath and plant sales, bake sales, book fairs, voucher sales, restaurant discount booklets, cow patty bingo runs, raffle sales, dinner theatre sales, BBQ sales, the number of times that parents were asked to donate and why, how much money is made from yearbook sales, drink and food machines throughout the district, etc., along with a description of each, the total amounts that each one brought in PER SCHOOL for 2006-2007 and to date for the current school year as well.
Let’s also take a look at the number of charity events district-wide that have been asked of employees to do. How much money was brought into the district from those that students and staff were asked and encouraged to solicit for? What profit and time were in those?
In one of your previous letters to the Herald, Mr. Hairfield, you said, "This board, time and again, has snubbed their nose at the people once they were elected and have cow towed to anything the administrators say." Well, now's your chance. I'm the people, Sir and Ma'am! Please don't snub your nose or cow tow to me.
Hello, Board…you out there?
I've read this article several times, and here are a few comments that I would like to make:
Karen Brittain Sain: As a nurse, she is entrusted with patients' lives. As a board member, she'll be entrusted with students' lives.
This is a self-glamorizing statement. It is overkill and over-the-top.
Mr. Buff was asked: What will you do to restore respect to the board and the school system? He said: Continue to be accountable to the school system and the community; to be accountable and open and above board.
This is just a nothing statement directed at both the administrative and the classified levels as being ineffective.
Mr. Hairfield was asked: What will you do to provide support for the superintendent and principals? He said: Focus on accountability. There is ample money in the system to reallocate to principals to make sure they have the necessary resources. This will eliminate the need for student fundraisers.
What you say, Mr. Hairfield, is actually true - there is plenty of total money - but what you don’t understand or know is that there will never be a clean and efficient distribution of that money. School districts have little ability or total control – they are restricted by state, federal, and local laws – of how to allocate those funds. I’m sure our finance people do the best they can and firing Randall Brackett is not the answer, as much as you would like it to be.
But let’s not stop there – let’s be bold and list a few of the jobs that should be eliminated, like, One currently being advertised, EC Health Information Manager: What the heck is this?? We have OT’s, PT’s, Psychologists, Speech Personnel, Physical Educators, Behavioral Specialists, Interpreters, and now School Nurses. I’d like to know why this position will exist and for what purpose. It sounds to me like a job trying to be squeezed in before the new board takes its place.
Safety Director. Why do we need a Safety Director to send out 8x10 brochures telling us to be careful not to trip and fall in the winter, to turn out the lights and to remember to close the doors? Who actually reads the paperwork that comes from this particular office? And what’s the percentage of staff that then lie by signing our names to those questionnaires indicating that we do read them? Surely, Mr. Burleson wouldn’t mind attaching this information to a few of his current emails that he sends out to everyone, in effect accomplishing the same thing, and being more effective, efficient, and less wasteful of paper resources, in his approach!
Mr. ID Badge-Taker/Photographer: Why not put capable machines into the schools that secretaries or principals can use to create a badge for each of their faculty? And, equipping each school with a few cameras would take care of getting enough pictures. These are not hard things to do.
And finally, to address your comment about the need to eliminate student fundraisers-For years and years it has long been the battle cry, and is as common as the day is long, of incoming politicians to espouse the cause of cutting student fundraisers. Lots of people want to cut them out. It is a point stated all over the country all of the time. Why? Because it plays well with parents who hate fundraisers, teachers who get tired of handing out the packets, and all staff who see money wasted on frivolous things, such as paying board members or hiring unneeded positions or even, in some people's minds, purchasing textbooks that aren’t needed because everything is online these days. Do you really think that smart, highly educated and qualified teachers and principals would hold fundraisers in the first place if they weren’t needed? The fact is, they are needed and they do produce funding in order to help children’s education.
As a matter of fact, I'd like to see a list of the fundraisers, festivals, wreath and plant sales, bake sales, book fairs, voucher sales, restaurant discount booklets, cow patty bingo runs, raffle sales, dinner theatre sales, BBQ sales, the number of times that parents were asked to donate and why, how much money is made from yearbook sales, drink and food machines throughout the district, etc., along with a description of each, the total amounts that each one brought in PER SCHOOL for 2006-2007 and to date for the current school year as well.
Let’s also take a look at the number of charity events district-wide that have been asked of employees to do. How much money was brought into the district from those that students and staff were asked and encouraged to solicit for? What profit and time were in those?
In one of your previous letters to the Herald, Mr. Hairfield, you said, "This board, time and again, has snubbed their nose at the people once they were elected and have cow towed to anything the administrators say." Well, now's your chance. I'm the people, Sir and Ma'am! Please don't snub your nose or cow tow to me.
Hello, Board…you out there?
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Platforms
http://www.morganton.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=MNH/MGArticle/MNH_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173353295696
Rob Hairfield: Teachers are the most important profession because without teachers, there are no other professions.
You forgot the part about firing Randall Brackett
Karen Brittain Sain: As a nurse, she is entrusted with patients' lives. As a board member, she'll be entrusted with students' lives.
WTF, do you know what a platform is. how did you get elected? Watch out Tracy, Tims got a new girl.
David Barnard: He is running on fixing the dropout rate and creating a strategic plan to achieve goals.
Nice goal, can't really argue to much just hold you accountable. Lots of folks will be watching.
Tim Buff: The schools are doing a good job, but there is room for improvement. The board needs to work with the community and the principals and assistant principals.
too bad your actions don't match your words.
Rob Hairfield: Teachers are the most important profession because without teachers, there are no other professions.
You forgot the part about firing Randall Brackett
Karen Brittain Sain: As a nurse, she is entrusted with patients' lives. As a board member, she'll be entrusted with students' lives.
WTF, do you know what a platform is. how did you get elected? Watch out Tracy, Tims got a new girl.
David Barnard: He is running on fixing the dropout rate and creating a strategic plan to achieve goals.
Nice goal, can't really argue to much just hold you accountable. Lots of folks will be watching.
Tim Buff: The schools are doing a good job, but there is room for improvement. The board needs to work with the community and the principals and assistant principals.
too bad your actions don't match your words.
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Karen BRITTAIN-sain Bio
Let's examine karen BRITTAIN-sains bio.
http://www.charlotte.com/228/story/340088.html
Education: Diploma, East Burke High School, 1980; associate's degree, Western Piedmont Community College, 1982; bachelor's degree in nursing, Lenoir-Rhyne College, 1994
At least she has a bachelor's degree, better than a grocery store manage and his cashier.
About her: Before last fall's East Burke locker room incident, Sain had never been to a school board meeting, she said. But that changed after what she describes as the school system's mishandling of the situation, which affected a young relative and, she said, deeply divided the surrounding community.
Great, you elected a school board member who for her entire life didn't care about the school system until a single incident. She is right, this incident did divide the community. Becuase tim buff and tracy norman wouldn't let it go.
Why are you running:"The future of the Burke County Public Schools is important to me." As a mother of four girls, two of whom are still in school, she said, she has a personal stake in that future -- and feels the majority of the current board has lost its focus on it.
So now the future of the schools is important, but it wasn't when your first two were in school. You sound like a puppet, did TB write that for you.
If elected, what - if anything - would you change about the Burke County Public Schools? Are there things you believe the school system can or should be doing differently?
She recommends supporting continued and improved vocational and technology programs, including testing to identify students that may not be able to go on to higher education after graduation. "Many of us know how difficult it is to find a plumber, heating and air technician, auto mechanic, all of whom make $40-plus per hour. Also, Burke County has a booming health care system with new cancer and wound care centers, all of which will need to be staffed by trained individuals who are now part of our public school system." She also supports equitable, across-the-board employee pay raises.
Yeah more testing, if you didn't just get involved with your kids education, you would know we already have those tests. Please explain why it is difficult to find a plumber, heating and air, and auto mechanic, I just look in the phone book. You really need to get involved and realize how many of those classes are offered at the high schools. As for the health care stuff, i prefer my care givers to have a degree and not just a diploma. Raises sound great, but i guess since you are new to caring about the schools you are new to politics too. The state house, seneate and gov set the budget and raises. But thanks for playing
http://www.charlotte.com/228/story/340088.html
Education: Diploma, East Burke High School, 1980; associate's degree, Western Piedmont Community College, 1982; bachelor's degree in nursing, Lenoir-Rhyne College, 1994
At least she has a bachelor's degree, better than a grocery store manage and his cashier.
About her: Before last fall's East Burke locker room incident, Sain had never been to a school board meeting, she said. But that changed after what she describes as the school system's mishandling of the situation, which affected a young relative and, she said, deeply divided the surrounding community.
Great, you elected a school board member who for her entire life didn't care about the school system until a single incident. She is right, this incident did divide the community. Becuase tim buff and tracy norman wouldn't let it go.
Why are you running:"The future of the Burke County Public Schools is important to me." As a mother of four girls, two of whom are still in school, she said, she has a personal stake in that future -- and feels the majority of the current board has lost its focus on it.
So now the future of the schools is important, but it wasn't when your first two were in school. You sound like a puppet, did TB write that for you.
If elected, what - if anything - would you change about the Burke County Public Schools? Are there things you believe the school system can or should be doing differently?
She recommends supporting continued and improved vocational and technology programs, including testing to identify students that may not be able to go on to higher education after graduation. "Many of us know how difficult it is to find a plumber, heating and air technician, auto mechanic, all of whom make $40-plus per hour. Also, Burke County has a booming health care system with new cancer and wound care centers, all of which will need to be staffed by trained individuals who are now part of our public school system." She also supports equitable, across-the-board employee pay raises.
Yeah more testing, if you didn't just get involved with your kids education, you would know we already have those tests. Please explain why it is difficult to find a plumber, heating and air, and auto mechanic, I just look in the phone book. You really need to get involved and realize how many of those classes are offered at the high schools. As for the health care stuff, i prefer my care givers to have a degree and not just a diploma. Raises sound great, but i guess since you are new to caring about the schools you are new to politics too. The state house, seneate and gov set the budget and raises. But thanks for playing
Black Wednesday
The election results are in and burke county has made a huge mistake. Taking new seats on the school board are Karen BRITTAIN-sain, Rob Hairfield, and David Barnard. Tim Buff is back to his old seat, so expect the same old tricks.
We are looking forward to seeing these screw ups try to run a school system.
First question, who is going to be the chair. I am putting my money on the grocery store manager. What do you think?
We are looking forward to seeing these screw ups try to run a school system.
First question, who is going to be the chair. I am putting my money on the grocery store manager. What do you think?
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