CMS

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. They are a joke. They have a bussing program that hauls kids all over town so as to bust up the natural segregation that has occured. AKA they made someone else's problems mine too. Well, mine if I had kids and couldn't afford the 10-15K /yr to stick them in private schools. Anyway, the problems here have been documented for a while and areas such as Huntersville/Lake Norman have been trying to split off and start tehre own system supported by the local taxes in that area. Smart move lake people, you all have decent cash and none of the crap if bussing goes away. And it's not like they can hold light rail over you as an incentive to come back or finishing I-77 construction to the main exits. By the way bussing is shipping kids out side their home school district not the typical way most of us got to school at some points in our life.
Anyway, the point of this is that those days may be coming to an end. The Superintendent was thrown out on their ear last election, a few board members were replaced and the bonds failed so the cash for crap has at least been slowed for a while. The best part, the new super is bringing in business people to run the show and people like Coach Joe (yes this is a board member and the name he is often referred to by) will be slowly choked back into their place instead of coddling the "minorities" who are the majority in many schools with the mass exodus of well to do's to the realm of private education. Don't be surprised if you read about the CMS turn around in 5 years or so. The town has had enough and seems to have put it's foot down on BS. Should be fun. Hopefully things will be changed for the better by the time it matters to me beyond anything other than my property taxes.