Rankin ?

[Southtowner]

[BCsportsfan]

6 hours ago, Indian said:

A school board member seemed to imply grades and scores are high in large part due to tuition students. Individual scores aren’t available and shouldn’t be but a breakdown of zoned and tuitions should be to see if this board member can back up those claims.

Alcoa places in the top five in state academically year after year. You  don't do that by pulling 80 - 85% resident enrollment up by the remaining 15 - 20% tuition students. The academic requirement for tuition students is maintain 3.0 GPA. That's NOT going to "mask" or pull up the average!

[OleMary]

4 minutes ago, BCsportsfan said:

Alcoa places in the top five in state academically year after year. You  don't do that by pulling 60 - 65% resident enrollment up by the remaining 35 - 40% tuition students. The academic requirement for tuition students is maintain 3.0 GPA. That's NOT going to "mask" or pull up the average!

FYP.

[BarneySox2007]

We can call this anything we want but the signs are showing that you have a school board who makes the decisions are POed. The story basically was saying you have a coach running rough shot over the place while the principal pretty much agreed. I'm sure the principal would like to go out his last year without having to mess with this but you can mark this down the new one will make this a priority and Mr. Rankin may see his days numbered. We live in a new world folks and when the parents start harassing the school board members then crap hits the fan. You have a school board over there with familiar long time family ties to that school and if their not afraid to poke the bear like they did at that meeting you can bet they will hire a new principal that won't stand down. I see Mr. Rankin walking on eggshells from this point forward which is something he is not used to and wouldn't be surprised if he cuts out after this year. We're living in a new world folks where the millennials are starting to run the place and a lot of us old timers are really going to hate. I've watched Maryville change so much since I've been out I can barely stand to go there anymore if it makes any of my friends from Alcoa feel any better.

[BCsportsfan]

3 minutes ago, OleMary said:

FYP.

Fake news.....

[BIGPURPLEMACHINE]

8 minutes ago, BarneySox2007 said:

We can call this anything we want but the signs are showing that you have a school board who makes the decisions are POed. The story basically was saying you have a coach running rough shot over the place while the principal pretty much agreed. I'm sure the principal would like to go out his last year without having to mess with this but you can mark this down the new one will make this a priority and Mr. Rankin may see his days numbered. We live in a new world folks and when the parents start harassing the school board members then crap hits the fan. You have a school board over there with familiar long time family ties to that school and if their not afraid to poke the bear like they did at that meeting you can bet they will hire a new principal that won't stand down. I see Mr. Rankin walking on eggshells from this point forward which is something he is not used to and wouldn't be surprised if he cuts out after this year. We're living in a new world folks where the millennials are starting to run the place and a lot of us old timers are really going to hate. I've watched Maryville change so much since I've been out I can barely stand to go there anymore if it makes any of my friends from Alcoa feel any better.

Barney you say “signs show the board is poed”. Remember it’s only 2 members. That’s not the whole board. As far as we know the other members could Ben perfectly happy with the way things are. People shouldn’t assume that the 2 outspoken board members are a reflection of the way the entire board feels. 

[BCsportsfan]

6 minutes ago, BarneySox2007 said:

We can call this anything we want but the signs are showing that you have a school board who makes the decisions are POed. The story basically was saying you have a coach running rough shot over the place while the principal pretty much agreed. I'm sure the principal would like to go out his last year without having to mess with this but you can mark this down the new one will make this a priority and Mr. Rankin may see his days numbered. We live in a new world folks and when the parents start harassing the school board members then crap hits the fan. You have a school board over there with familiar long time family ties to that school and if their not afraid to poke the bear like they did at that meeting you can bet they will hire a new principal that won't stand down. I see Mr. Rankin walking on eggshells from this point forward which is something he is not used to and wouldn't be surprised if he cuts out after this year. We're living in a new world folks where the millennials are starting to run the place and a lot of us old timers are really going to hate. I've watched Maryville change so much since I've been out I can barely stand to go there anymore if it makes any of my friends from Alcoa feel any better.

Barn, you can make a Chicken sandwich at a Maryville game into an end of world crisis!! Ha!  

[BCsportsfan]

1 minute ago, BIGPURPLEMACHINE said:

Barney you say “signs show the board is poed”. Remember it’s only 2 members. That’s not the whole board. As far as we know the other members could Ben perfectly happy with the way things are. People shouldn’t assume that the 2 outspoken board members are a reflection of the way the entire board feels. 

Two members withe same last name....

[BIGPURPLEMACHINE]

Just now, BCsportsfan said:

Two members withe same last name....

Yep. Minority not the majority. 

[BIGPURPLEMACHINE]

7 hours ago, tradertwo said:

You've nailed it again BPM... you get to make the rules yet complain about the results, even though academics and athletics are both thriving? Once you clear away all the misguided opinions and just stick with facts and figures, this looks kind of silly to me. 

You know when I read this article yesterday I was thinking what your two cents would be on this. However in the back of my mind I already knew what your perspective would be. 

[BarneySox2007]

You can disagree all you want but close sources tell me a third member feels the same way. It's a changing world my friends, why do you think GQ left, he was sick of the BS. Gary won't get run off but he will to get sick of it the same as GQ did.

[BIGPURPLEMACHINE]

Somebody help me understand this. The Clayton’s make the assertion that the tuition students pull the weight academically for the rest of the students. Also that Alcoa let’s in athletes regardless of who they are and that places an emphasis on athletics rather than academics. Here is the part I don’t understand. The athletes that transfer in would be tuition students correct?  Do they not consider them to part of the group they say pulls the weight academically. I mean they do have to have and maintain a 3.0 gpa according to their own board policy. And if they are not a tuition student that means they are a resident and they have to enroll the student. Sounds like these two board members are full of bologna.