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Why hasn't Mr. Beverly printed letters to editors submitted to The Citizen?Fri, 07/11/2008 - 10:28pm
By: fairandbalanced
Dear Editor: Quoted below are statements from the Clayton County SACs report: “Board members have become regular fixtures at the administrative building, and have insinuated themselves into every aspect of the school district…Board members subjected the administrative staff to insults, accusations, and derogatory comments…Board members routinely acted beyond the scope of their legal authority by holding their own meetings with constituents, staff and administrators…Board members discussed with their constituents issues that should have been referred to administration or staff.” Unfortunately, Fayette County has at least one Board Member who fits all the above statements. Information, based on an Open Records Request, shows that Marion Key does all of the above. Marion Key makes numerous unannounced visits to all schools (except whatever the reason – North Fayette Elementary). She constantly disrupts principals and central office directors and coordinators by meeting with them – always unplanned. She demands resumes of high level administrators she dislikes (based on voting against them). She talks about these administrators to school personnel, and even the newspaper, trying to convince others that certain administrators recommended by Dr. DeCotis are not qualified to do their jobs. Marion Key demands copies of numerous documents such as who gets paid overtime, personnel transfer requests, personnel recruitment documents, rejected applications on salary requests, payables under $300 for contracted services, and copies of invoices. Marion Key complains about school boundary changes, and as an individual board member tries to change boundaries outside of official school board meetings. She also forces personnel to justify academic adoptions outside regular scheduled curriculum meetings with central office curriculum specialists. Marion Key needs to refrain from her many years of attempts at micro managing before SACs has complaints on her as it has on Clayton County Board members. Actually, electing Marion Key to the Clayton County Board of Education would be a much better idea than re-electing her to the Fayette County Board of Education. Respectfully, Juliette Babb login to post comments | previous forum topic | next forum topic![]() |