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Jerry Hill is right about retalliation, B.V. is a egotistic, power-tripping maniac that only cares of "HIS" agenda. It is all about the authority to him, I hope the people of this County really get out in 2012 and help get him out of here. R.T., D.B., & B.C. have nothing but strings attached to them and all B.V. has to do is pull'em and they dance for him. J.F.F. needs to stand up more and ask questions himself, as far as T.H., he's the only person that will buck B.V. and that is what we need as a board, do what is right and not be intimidated by the superintindent. That is how the entire administration operates now, through intimidation. IT HAS GOT TO STOP. Employees and parents stand up, let your voices be heard B.V. can not stop or retalliate against you, its your God given right, he'll try but his bark is alot worse than his bite. VOTE HIM OUT.....
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This is not the first time the superintendent
did not take the principal's reccomendation. He goes with what suits him. He has really showed his true colors since he was elected for a second term. Terry Holden is the only one with enough guts to question him It's about time some new people were elected to the board. It needs some fresh young minds.
VOTE THEM ALL OUT! Politics,Politics,Politics! They are all guilty of arrogance and egotism. We should....no,we must not allow Valentine and his puppets to run and ruin our school system. This is not the first time something of this magnitude has occured. How long are we gonna allow this blatant totalitarianism to continue?
B.V. said,"I went on my recommendation." What a shallow answer. That is the answer you provide when you just do not have one. Time to marshall the troops and vote them out!
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I would just like to say that the majority of Greenhill (at least the people I have spoken with today) are very upset at the loss of Mrs.Himber from our school. The people at Brooks are getting an awesome vice principal. But be warned- she is gonna rock yall's world over there! Dress code, roaming the hall, athletic "privilege" ROFL............. not gonna happen on her watch.
I agree she is going to wake up some people! She is NOT a sit behind the desk and wait for the problems to find her principal she goes out into the hall and finds the problems. Some of the students will see more of her then they do their own parents. Some parents will talk to her more then they do their own children. She is NOT afraid to pick up the phone and call a parent about a problem...on a daily basis if needed. She will also stay after the teachers not doing their job and will SUPPORT the teachers who are doing their job and need help with problem students and/or parents. She will be missed from Rogers!
What makes you think the kids at Brooks need controlling?
There is a great student body at Brooks, as good as any school in the area.

Jerry Hill was an excellent choice by Mr. Howard. He can walk the halls and be away from a desk as good as any one else. He isn't afraid to talk to parents, students, teachers or community.

Some of you are talking like she is coming into a problem school that she will straighten out. She is walking into an well established school in the area with a good program.

My personal opinion is the superintendent is following his own agenda and did not take into consideration the desire of the Brooks family or the Rogers family. If she had such a good rapport with Rogers and is moving from a vice principal job to a vice principal job...doesn't make much sense to me.
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Originally posted by lionbacker:
What makes you think the kids at Brooks need controlling?
There is a great student body at Brooks, as good as any school in the area.

Jerry Hill was an excellent choice by Mr. Howard. He can walk the halls and be away from a desk as good as any one else. He isn't afraid to talk to parents, students, teachers or community.

Some of you are talking like she is coming into a problem school that she will straighten out. She is walking into an well established school in the area with a good program.

My personal opinion is the superintendent is following his own agenda and did not take into consideration the desire of the Brooks family or the Rogers family. If she had such a good rapport with Rogers and is moving from a vice principal job to a vice principal job...doesn't make much sense to me.


I think that all high schools have control issues. Not just Brooks. Be thankful for what you are getting. Mrs. Himber is very involved with the student body. While she may not have been your first choice, show her your support. I think you will find her to be a very compassionate person who truly cares about the student body.
I can understand her move from one school to another with a increase in salary. Would you not move? She also has to consider that money factor when the time comes to retire. Yes, all schools have their problems,as for the problems at BHS. I had Mathis as a teacher (as I am a graduate of Brooks) & know he was a joke at teaching & coaching, let alone as a principal. I have family at that school; family that plays all sorts of sports. I know exactly what goes on up there. These aren't made up stories- (I could be mean & list them, but I was raised better than that) maybe you just don't have the right people in the know. Like I said all schools have problems, Lord knows that Rogers has had our share & everyone in the county knew about them, usually thanks to the media.
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Originally posted by lionbacker:
What makes you think the kids at Brooks need controlling?
There is a great student body at Brooks, as good as any school in the area.

Jerry Hill was an excellent choice by Mr. Howard. He can walk the halls and be away from a desk as good as any one else. He isn't afraid to talk to parents, students, teachers or community.

Some of you are talking like she is coming into a problem school that she will straighten out. She is walking into an well established school in the area with a good program.

My personal opinion is the superintendent is following his own agenda and did not take into consideration the desire of the Brooks family or the Rogers family. If she had such a good rapport with Rogers and is moving from a vice principal job to a vice principal job...doesn't make much sense to me.
Thank God Brooks is getting Mrs. Himber! Some people at Rogers may miss her, but I won't. She called me at work to tell me my son forgot his homework.....She called him a LIAR. Well, his homework was laying on the bar where he left it that morning. She apologized for calling him a liar AND she found out NOT to call me at work over homework! That kind of petty stuff is ridiculous! I wish her well at Brooks....I'll pray for you parents there.
This has nothing to do with wanting or not wanting the new VP at BHS and everything to do with politics, ONCE AGAIN, being put before our kids. I was at the board meeting and NOT 1 but TH would make eye contact with any of us because of the lack of backbone. Valentine hid behind his "my recomendation" card. When asked about the hiring procedure he responded "make an appointment with me & I will explain it to you". I say we ALL schedule appt's with him every 15 min. and let him explain or bs his way through that one Smiler. It's pathetic & scary to think who & how decisions are being made for our children. We need to WAKE UP and VOTE THEM OUT!!!! Terry Holden was the only one that questioned BV and voted no to this madness.
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I can understand her move from one school to another with a increase in salary. Would you not move? She also has to consider that money factor when the time comes to retire. Yes, all schools have their problems,as for the problems at BHS. I had Mathis as a teacher (as I am a graduate of Brooks) & know he was a joke at teaching & coaching, let alone as a principal. I have family at that school; family that plays all sorts of sports. I know exactly what goes on up there. These aren't made up stories- (I could be mean & list them, but I was raised better than that) maybe you just don't have the right people in the know. Like I said all schools have problems, Lord knows that Rogers has had our share & everyone in the county knew about them, usually thanks to the media.
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Originally posted by lionbacker:
What makes you think the kids at Brooks need controlling?
There is a great student body at Brooks, as good as any school in the area.

Jerry Hill was an excellent choice by Mr. Howard. He can walk the halls and be away from a desk as good as any one else. He isn't afraid to talk to parents, students, teachers or community.

Some of you are talking like she is coming into a problem school that she will straighten out. She is walking into an well established school in the area with a good program.

My personal opinion is the superintendent is following his own agenda and did not take into consideration the desire of the Brooks family or the Rogers family. If she had such a good rapport with Rogers and is moving from a vice principal job to a vice principal job...doesn't make much sense to me.
I think that people should not bring up past principals and what their opinions of them are on this forum. It seems to me that people that have done this in the past have found themselves without a home on the forum. You are not supposed to attack people or make derogatory statements about individuals. As for the situation at Brooks, the people spoke and the Board of Education failed to listen. It is a sad situation for all. The people at Brooks do not want Mrs. Himber and the Board of Education failed to take that into consideration. Maybe the next election, the people of Killen will have the opportunity to let their voices be heard and vote for people who want the best for the schools not to push forth their individual agendas.
--Valentine is more qualified
--The reason Valentine is effective is because he doesn't care whether you like him or not...he also doesn't care if he is reelected..

Just a question, and you will probably chew me up over this one, but ... go ahead.

Tell me another organization in the world where the board is composed of people who are not qualified to make the decisions that are made..
Would Ford Motor or GM put people on their boards who know nothing about the process. And yes, education is a process. It is a very difficult, detailed, intricate process. Special Education is a federally-funded program and just part of the process. It is a program that Mr. Valentine understands, but two-thirds of the board doesn't. No, Mr. Valentine won't be there long...he doesn't have the qualifications that JFF has.
You are so right about Ford and GM, oh hold on a minute GM is now run by the Government, yeah they were real qualified. You need people on the Board from all aspects of life and careers, they are the ones that live in the communities, B.V. lives in the city limits and the only reason he won this time was he rode Obama's shirt tails in straight party voting (thats working out real well too, HA) and I think it would be good that board members have children in the system, that way they would stand up to these weasels that are Superintendents. We need to get more involved and run for offices ourselves, myself included. Us with kids now need to step up and try our best to fix the messes we are complaining about.
tellthetruth....you go right ahead and do that and tell us a year from now if you still feel the same way....that is if you will "tellthetruth"......most popular player on the team is always the backup quarterback....everybody always feels like somebody else could do a better job...always finds something to criticize about the one in the position right now....if education is so bad, you might take a look at who has been there for the longest time like your friend from greenhill JFF..ever wonder about the story of someone who has been on the board for 30 years....
JFF not a friend of mine, he's needs to go also, but you do know everything sounds like. You must be a Billy V. puppet, cause you surely don't work under him. And yes I will tell the truth, the reason Himber got the job is T. Tubbs wanted her gone, Little Dan wanted her gone so Big Dan goes with Billy V's recomendation to help his son. T Tubbs already had moved Himber to the other end of the school when she was hired, she didn't get the office Matthews had cause it was too close to Tubb's office and just to make you wonder T Tubbs was a front runner in the last election but his wife was hired as the Supers secretary to keep him from running and she did not even work at the LCBOE, she was hired over people that had worked there 15 plus years,HMMMMMMMMM. Too many back door deals going on under Billy V term not to mention lawsuits that have been settled and still going on since he got the TITLE, yeah that's all he wants "THE TITLE" an authority that goes with it. As far as the Beavers they want Hill at Greenhill, is it any clearer now or are you still lokking through those Billy V colored glases?
It's amazing that Terry Holden only shows up when its something he cares about... His attendance rate at board meetings is terrible. Surely they don't have that much crime wherever he is employed. He's too busy smoking butts (pork ones)

If Jerry Hill truly wants to be a principal, let him start at the low end of the totem pole like everyone else has. Doesn't want to be any where but Brooks? Well not everyone gets to pick and choose where they want to go!
Guess what people, JH is not the only one in Lauderdale Co. that doesn't get his way. Just because he is HH son does not promise him a job. This is probably one of the best moves made by the LCBOE. AH is very qualified and deserving of this position. JH has not even had his administration degree that long. There are many others in the county that have had theirs much longer than he has. There would have been a lot of people on the other end of the county just as upset as you Killen people if he HAD of gotten the job. Please, who does he think he is? And don't get me wrong, the LCBOE has their own agenda. That's no secret. Maybe it was retalliation, but this time it happened the way it should have. I feel sorry for the "good ole boys" who aren't kin to anyone at the board or haven't had a parent in the education field to "ride their coat tails!"
The board should be appointed....it is ridiculous to have board members who been there for 30 years.....ever wonder why JF retired when he did? Himber is a piece of work, but she always has the welfare of the children as a priority. This isn't over by a long shot, and I am afraid the people who will suffer are the students, as is always the case.

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