C. J. Huff knows who is to blame for that potentially disastrous oversight.
The parents, of course.
In an interview with KZRG, Huff once again avoided taking responsibility for any problems that have occurred on his watch.
Superintendent Dr. CJ Huff tells News Talk KZRG a volunteer tasked with unlocking the building missed when the watch was issued.
"We have some communication issues we need to work on. We also need to work on... where Irving is more prominent on just where the shelter's entrance is, at Soaring Heights and East it's a bit confusing."
The doors were opened three hours later. The shelter at Irving Elementary was opened on time.
"The volunteer at Soaring Heights is a good man, and the only volunteer we have covering that building. Unfortunately other volunteers there have disengaged, which is a problem."
"We have some communication issues we need to work on. We also need to work on... where Irving is more prominent on just where the shelter's entrance is, at Soaring Heights and East it's a bit confusing."
The doors were opened three hours later. The shelter at Irving Elementary was opened on time.
"The volunteer at Soaring Heights is a good man, and the only volunteer we have covering that building. Unfortunately other volunteers there have disengaged, which is a problem."
What Huff did not mention (nor was he apparently asked about it) is why the volunteers at East Middle School have become "disengaged." Huff has not only ignored the East teachers resolution calling for more professionalism from Principal Bud Sexson, but he has ignored scores of parent complaints about Sexson and the way things have been run at EMS.
These include complaints about the lack of discipline at East, the enforced switch to standards-based grading, and the refusal of Sexson to deal with problems and often even to return calls or messages.
Some volunteers had it with East after my situation last year. When PTO members let Sexson know they supported me, Sexson let them know the PTO's job is to support what the school wants and what they wanted did not mean anything.
All of this time, many have been under the apparently mistaken assumption that parents should be involved in PTO to make things better for the children, not necessarily to back administration edicts.
And now that they have been ignored for the past four years by Huff and Sexson, it is the parents' fault when they are not lining up to volunteer to keep Huff from being embarrassed when things go wrong.
Is anything ever C. J. Huff's fault?
10 comments:
We are disengaging until the administration changes. It is clear the focus is not on the students and teachers. If they want support from parents and volunteers they need to stop running off teachers that actually teach. No interested in lip service, just actions!
It's always someone else's fault. Maybe he'll write a book about it. He's just upset because it didn't hit Joplin again. I even have the next title, " The disaster that got away."
In reality, the TV station that reported this is completely WRONG. The building was opened at approx noon. It was open until 2am when the watch expired. I know these facts because I was one of the people that was there to keep it open. And the building engineer was the one that opened it. Let's get the facts straight.
If the TV station, and I might add the radio station, are completely wrong then why isn't CJ Huff telling them that? If the doors were open he doesn't have any need to blame anyone. Check YOUR facts.
Mistakes like a locked tornado shelter will be fixed when the new fundraiser is hired and on the job. Charging admission to the shelter and determining what the proper panic price to charge is can be one of the revenue streams this new position can find.
Another source of revenue is the naming rights for the shelter. The recent attention to the shelter (whether or not it was really locked when it was needed) only increases the value of the proposition.
Lol...Randy, are you saying that parents/neighbors are not volunteering to sit at Soaring Heights during watches and warnings because you were fired?Your ego continues to grow.
No, I am not saying that. And you know full well I am not saying that.
No I don't know full well.
6:45, if you don't know full well, you are an idiot. I don't think that is the case. I think it is just one more occasion of someone who can't defend CJ Huff so he attacks Mr. Turner. I would be surprised if you could come up with anything good to say about Bud Sexson either.
Funny, Bud has a key to the building and shelter and he just moved within walking distance. He was probably too busy saving his own hyde to worry about anyone else, that's his MO. That's why he doesn't call parents back, he is afraid of them. He is a self serving (literally, he needs to be questioned about school funds he spends and where he spends his work hours) imbecile. In the know.
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