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He appears to go out of his way to be confrontational with education stakeholders when just the slightest bit of cordiality would make a positive impact. He has a huge chip on his shoulder all the time.

I agree, he isn't likable, but they knew that when they hired him. It was easy to find out his reputation out through a Google search.

They had Dillworth prior who by all accounts was a lame duck who didn't fight for anything he wanted. Heck, he wouldn't even quit when he wanted to. People didn't want that kind of Superintendent. They didn't want Dr. Brister from within the system who by all accounts has a likeable personality. They supposedly wanted an outsider with fresh ideas who would change the direction of the school system and fight off state takeovers. They wanted a Dr. Taylor, a person who would push for what they thought was best no matter what anyone else thought. But as always as soon as that person's started changing things and those changes didn't line up with what they wanted they want him gone.

Again I ask the question what do people want/expect from their Superintendent here? What does that person have to do to make you think they are doing a good job?

And for the record I would have never hired the guy, but if you ever want things to improve you have to have someone here longer than one contract term. It does take time to change a school system with as much political baggage as this one.

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To start with it would be nice if he told the truth and addressed improprieties in the system directly . Is that too much to ask for?

Are you talking about the credits for graduating incident? Didn't EBR self report that? From what I heard it sounded like mistakes were made, when discovered they were reported, and EBR was willing to make changes to ensure it wouldn't happen again. Was there more to that than what I heard?

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Posted by Huck Finn

Baton Rouge

Member since Jul 2009

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Posted on 6/17/14 at 8:33 pm to cssamerican

You paint a nice successful narrative, but his only real idea implemented was to just stir the student pot. He simply bused kids from failing schools to good schools and from good schools to failing schools making everyone a little more mediocre. He didn't burn it down faster than it already was, but he didn't improve it by any measurable means (not that any 4 year metric would be meaningful) .
Taylor is a problem, but he is not the problem. EBR schools has too many huge problems to fix. Break up the school system into a few smaller ones and you will have clearly defined problems that are much easier to address. Political correctness has tied our hands to addressing the root causes of the failures here. This solution, though roundabout, would let us diagnose it without speaking hard truths, and hopefully move past the unsavory systemic issues toward a model that would actually work.

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Posted by doubleb

Baton Rouge

Member since Aug 2006

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Posted on 6/17/14 at 9:01 pm to cssamerican

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Are you talking about the credits for graduating incident? Didn't EBR self report that? From what I heard it sounded like mistakes were made, when discovered they were reported, and EBR was willing to make changes to ensure it wouldn't happen again. Was there more to that than what I heard?

WBRZ investigated and found it was a whitewash and that Taylor only reported the problem after the state asked him about it .
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The investigation began over a graduation discrepancy. Taylor told News 2 this year, EBR self-reported the discrepancy. However, the documents News 2 obtained from the state show, Taylor did not self-report the problem until the State raised the issue.

ETA another report was done by WAFB exposing discipline problems and grade fixing . Don't believe any of the grades you see. They probably were doctored to dome degree from what I gather from this report.

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Follow this link.

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