The right direction

It's a step in the right direction, so 'yay' for that.

Still, it couldn't resist taking a swipe at the Clarke County school system - because, you know, why not - and it even attempts to rationalize the attempts of the Oconee County Board of Education to increase its pay by five times its current amount.

Plus, I think the context of the pay raise being offered on the heels of a pair of embarassing instances of mismanagement in the superintendent fiasco and Brian Dickens situation is essential to understanding why, exactly, this was such an awful endeavor.

And I don't get the Forsyth County metric. Again, Columbia County would appear to be a better model since it's a county that, roughly 10 to 15 years ago, resembled Oconee County today ... and it features BOE salaries that are parallel to what David Weeks wanted. What makes it a more appropriate comparison, in my book, is evaluating those parallel salaries with the size of the school system, thus showing how completely out of whack the Oconee County proposal was.

All that said, it was a positive step in the right direction and brought the appropriate criticism toward a poor decision made by four members of the Oconee County BOE. The public forum is this afternoon, and I'm hoping I can get to it for a little bit before heading off to a church meeting.