How many people are still at the BOE office that Frazier thinks are Williams supporters?  I can help her understand that her loyalties should be with the students and the community if she is so confused.

This is a person that is not even qualified to serve on the School Board and she is the curret President (and I won't even go into the currect VP!). Her comments and beliefs just show how unprofessional and educated she is. This is a very sad time for the Hoover City Schools.

I'll be honest, when I read that article today, my mouth was just hanging open.  Unbelievable.  Has Pat Morrow retired yet?  We need someone in PR right NOW!  Remember when Scott Stantis did the precious cartoon of Bill Veitch with the corks in his ears?  You know he could have a field day doing a cartoon of Donna Frazier with black helicopters buzzing her and spooky eyes looking at her.  Someone step up and take care of this disaster!
 
 
"Tis better to remain silent and appear foolish, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt!"

It makes me shudder to think that someone as under qualified as Donna Frazier actually has the position of BOE president.  A better candidate would have been...wait...there are no better candidates.  They are all abysmally under qualified.  Having been to several BOE meetings, it is absolutely apparent that no one on that governing body is competent enough to be where they are.  The fact that Frazier doesn't trust anyone at the school board is strikingly ironic considering that the BOE has routinely fired anyone they cannot control.  But who could possibly fill the role of president?
 
Bill Veitch is the poster-child for Good-Ole-Boy politics.
Suzy Baker is clueless and wouldn't pass the dress code in hoover schools (except at SPHS under the watchful eye of Billy Broadway).
Tom Defnall is useless.
You can't trust A.W. Bolt as far as you can throw him.
And Donna Frazier...well...I think it's fairly obvious that she isnt exactly doing a great job as it stands now.
 
The city council elections are going to be dirty...but as it is, they are the only hope for Hoover schools.
Can't wait till 2008.
 
I can tell you that I will drive back from school and skip classes so that my vote can be counted.

Quote from SPHSgrad06 on 07/12/07 at 5:57pm:

 
Yep, you went to Spain Park.

A smart PR person may be needed, but that would take a recommendation from Craig, the puppet, who would then need to be interviewed separately by each board member to make sure the person's IQ is lower than anyone on the BOE or CC (a hard person to find no doubt), a "strip tease" preview by Broadway if the person is a woman, and a demonstrated inability to speak complete sentences (cannot risk coherent statements from your PR person).....   Let's save that money until we have a new BOE and CC.  

The state superintendent and state BOE know all about it.  They cannot do anything about how the local BOE spends local funds (our local tax money and the money just received from Jefferson County).  Nothing.  They only audit how state funds allocated to Hoover are spent.  Think about that.

After watching the members last night, I thought this was a good time to bring this topic back up.  They say that first impressions last the longest.  My first impressions of our esteemed Board of Education:
 
President Donna Frazier:
She looked like a fish out of water with a packed room.  After fumbling through the agenda and being corrected every thirty seconds by Mr. Sweeney, she apologized for the board not looking like they knew what they were doing.  The apology didn't help.  Neither did the apparent apprehension to discuss in public what is the people's business.  If anyone can't be trusted now, it is this person.
 
Suzy Baker:
Contrary to her reputation that she has on this and other forums, I thought she was dressed OK.  Not conservative, but not provocative either.  She attempted to look intelligent during the Public Participation portion, sections D-J by asking irrelevant questions.  And the representative for the school system was very polite in his answers, though he should have told her to not ask the questions she asked.
 
Tom Defnall:
No problems with this person.  He seemed to be the only one who knew what was going on, asked good questions and kept most people on the board under control.
 
A.W. Bolt:
Frankly, didn't have an issue with this person, either.  I personally liked his question regarding staff salaries, making sure that Hoover was paying more than competing systems.  
 
Bill Veitch:
Since this gentleman is an attorney, a DA no less, I am frankly surprised at his lack of knowledge of rules of order.  If what is said on this board is true, about siding with the boosters, we have a problem due to his position outside of the board.  This could border on a conflict of interest.  What would prevent him from using his position to dig up information on those who oppose him?  Conversely, what would prevent him from using his position to shield those that support him?  I hope that he is an ethical person who puts the responsibilities given to him by the CC seriously and to heart.
 
Overall, I was disappointed in what I saw.  As stated in another post, it goes to show it's not what you know, but who you know that gets you far in life.