re: The latest from the EBRPSS fiasco-school board meeting last night

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In January it was known the state was going to do their audit as a response to a whistleblower's complaints.

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What this means then is that the school board has to wait on the state's findings. They can't start their own proceedings because there could be issues of impropriety unless the school board is using an outside, independent source. They won't spend that kind of money though unless the state's investigation turns up something. Since the state's investigation turned up something, now they can proceed with their own investigation AND have a solid direction to start in.

Back to my point to Russian though, no one can reasonably believe that deciding on who is going to handle the investigation/review on the school board's end will happen in a vacuum.

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6,250 employees and 42,850 students in the system. That averages out to 7 employees per student.

You'd like to think they have enough people to determine if a kid has enough credits to graduate. But that's me.

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How are bus drivers, janitors, cafeteria workers, etc supposed to know a given child's grades? There may even be a rule or law against the school system divulging that information to such employees (privacy laws, laws about minors, etc). This puts your math waaaaaaay off.

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Seriously, no way can Supt. Taylor know everything in his system, but by now he should know if a student graduated who shouldn't have since the auditors told him who they were.

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I'll agree with that considering the qualifiers.

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What this means then is that the school board has to wait on the state's findings. They can't start their own proceedings because there could be issues of impropriety unless the school board is using an outside, independent source. They won't spend that kind of money though unless the state's investigation turns up something. Since the state's investigation turned up something, now they can proceed with their own investigation AND have a solid direction to start in.

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Exactly!!!

And everyone seems to ignore it was the EBR superintendent who first reported the problems in graduation records to the state DOE last Fall when the new recordkeeping person at Glen Oaks HS first discovered the irregularities in September.

But let's just pretend that didn't happen.

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How are bus drivers, janitors, cafeteria workers, etc supposed to know a given child's grades? There may even be a rule or law against the school system divulging that information to such employees (privacy laws, laws about minors, etc). This puts your math waaaaaaay off.

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I don't disagree and that's why I used the word seriously to preface my second paragraph. But another point of information, the School System subs out the janitorial and maintenance work in EBR. A private company does all that now.

But I do think we have enough people in administration and at the schools to insure kids who graduate really did the work.

And again like I said, I'm critical of Taylor for his responses to date more so than I am for the fact the administration seems to have been corrupted.

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LSURussian

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Please refer back to my question about the school board choosing a company happening within a vacuum.

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And everyone seems to ignore it was the EBR superintendent who first reported the problems in graduation records to the state DOE last Fall when the new recordkeeping person at Glen Oaks HS first discovered the irregularities in September. But let's just pretend that didn't happen.

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Self reported???

This article says it was a whistleblower who got an investigation started ????

Article written on January 8th: LINK

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The state Department of Education will announce Thursday that it is auditing the East Baton Rouge Parish School System, following allegations that students were allowed to cheat in online courses and graduate without meeting requirements, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.

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Allegations provided to NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune, documented by a whistleblower in the district, describe lax oversight and district policies not being followed when students take online courses.

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Self reported???

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Yes. The Glen Oaks HS irregularities were first reported last Fall when a new person started working at that school and saw some things she thought needed correcting. There were even some threads on this board about it when it happened. You probably posted in those threads.

It's too bad your memory is so poor you can't recall when it all first started.

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That explains a LOT.

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Now I've admitted I'm crazy, what is your problem?

I think that someone missed the point of your postings. You pointed out that the board president essentially said that we need to get to the bottom of this and that you think a reputable firm should do a more extensive review. I think that we would all agree to that. But I think some people here are unset with some of the original quotes -- not yours -- that seem to deny the existence of a problem. I would agree that if fraud is involved, someone needs to be at least fired and maybe prosecuted, depending on what actually happened. Incompetence may require a different solution.