Monday, March 26, 2012

Official: Visit To Texas Persuades New Britain School Board Its Superintendent Choice Is Right One - Courant.com

By DON STACOM
Posted by Frank Smith at 26.3.12

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

From every account, this guy is a really smart guy, so it mystifies me why he would even consider working for the nut jobs and wackos in this city?

March 26, 2012 at 9:37 PM
Anonymous said...

Maybe, he likes a challenge or could it be the salary of $200,000? Kurtz must be fuming that she never saw that kind of money, nor did she deserve it!

March 27, 2012 at 7:24 AM
Anonymous said...

I could see where a visit to Texas could convince you. There was a caller to John Rowland's show yesterday who just returned from a 2 week vacation in Texas. He said that it was so refreshing to take a break in a state where everyone supports this great nation and the system works because they leave business owners alone and allow them to do what they do best--run their businesses. He said it was disappointing to have to return to Connecticut at the end of his vacation and return to a place where everyone seems to despise this country and seems to focus all their energy on efforts to destroy this nation. It was like going from one extreme to the other.

March 27, 2012 at 11:34 AM
Anonymous said...

The governor is trying to privatize schools to break the teachers unions. Why not start right here in New Britain?

March 27, 2012 at 1:29 PM
Anonymous said...

Wait until the new superintendent encounters teachers like my friend who will openly tell him to kiss her fat a$$ because no one can tell her what to do since she has tenure and he can't fire her even if he wanted to. She brags all the time that she is absolutely guaranteed her job for the rest of her life and her principal can kiss her in the same place if he doesn't like it too.

March 27, 2012 at 3:46 PM
Anonymous said...

Kelt Cooper's selection as superintendent became a political controversy when at least one NB school board member and DTC member, Dr. Aram Ayalon complained that he was told only at the last minute about Cooper's high-profile effort to enforce residency law on students in 2009.

But, then Democratic Town Chairman John McNamara publicly questioned the hiring process.

That the school board's consultant's should have notified school board members earlier about Mr. Cooper story in the Texas Observer magazine that McNamara's Website POLITIS now posted.....

.....when a retired New Britain Democrat music teacher with passionate advocate for education, first posted on her Facebook page, and then McNamara posted what she posted on his POLITIS page, the question is-why do you both dis-like Mr. Cooper's Texas?

March 27, 2012 at 4:49 PM
Anonymous said...

Actually, a really smart superintendent knows how to make teachers so miserable they quit. Tell fat A$$ to expect administrators to walk through her classes several times a day. After a while, she will get the message.

March 27, 2012 at 5:13 PM
Anonymous said...

-why do you both dis-like Mr. Cooper's Texas?

Maybe because Texas is so successful--the best place to locate a business in, only 5% unemployment, no state income tax, no business tax, a right to work state where no one may ever be forced to belong to a union against their will, and millions of Americans flocking there every year to flee the expansion of socialism.

It drives these radical liberals in New Britain crazy that a state virtually free of liberals, Democrats, and unions is the most successful state in the nation!

March 27, 2012 at 5:47 PM
Anonymous said...

If anyone knows the Del Rio school district better than Kelt L. Cooper, it’s Del Rio's current Mayor Roberto Fernandez. He been town's mayor for two years now, and spent 38 years working in the school district. He served as schools superintendent from 2003-2008, until handing the baton over to Mr. Cooper.

I did the same thing he did, Mayor Fernandez said, referring to Cooper’s Hands-on Policy of sending school staff to the International Bridge, which connects Mexico and Texas, to see if young people were heading to neighborhood district schools.

The Del Rio Mayor pointed out that when he did the district Hands-on Policy of residency as school's superintendent, the CNN 2009 article didn’t pick up on what i did, Mayor Fernandez said.

I guess it was bad timing for Kelt Cooper when he did the same thing. Cooper was just following law of Texas, Mayor stated. To go to our schools, you must be of age, be a resident of the district, reside with a parent of guardian.

March 27, 2012 at 8:29 PM

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