Jackson Jambalaya

When you have an elected official who has run around Jackson and the nation for years impersonating a police officer then it becomes obvious to scam artists that if you are black you can say anything in Jackson and no one will hold you accountable.

Yup,yup,yup. Bombproof by virtue of dark skin. Ship of fools, the entire system. "And for THIS we pay taxes?" as my mother often sighs...

JPS should be ashamed. Not only are they a failing school system, they also won't even man-up and acknowledge reality.

Too bad there isn't a legal recourse for the taxpayers. Their ROI stinks. In fact, the district should be paying THEM for lost property values since the schools are so bad.

Things are even worse than I thought. Wow!

When will you suckers get the message. None of that is important. None of it matters. All that matters is getting the jobs and being in line for lifetime retirement benefits. Nothing else is of value and there is no other goal. First, you get in power, in charge. Then, you dole out the jobs to those who look like you. Once you control the money, you control the jobs, and, the fact that the systems all go down the shitter has no meaning whatever.

Wow. A "ship of fools; the entire system?" I went to the PTA meeting at Casey last night, and as a parent enjoyed learning about work I can do on the campus beautification committee and the arts integration that's taking place in my child's kindergarten class. I talked with his teacher, and with other parents, and we agreed that we were very happy with the school. There are hundreds of committed parents, teachers and administrators who are working together to make Casey a good place for our children to go and learn. And people making glib comments that denigrate the entire system are just flat out wrong. It's unfortunate, and it hurts all of us who live in the metro area.
I agree that the city's schools could be better, but so does everyone involved with them. And a lot of us are actually working to improve them for the sake of our children and their classmates.

Its an A school. It should be doing pretty well as you stated.

Casey is an exception to the rule. The rule is Wingfield, Forest Hill, Whitten, Key, etc. Crappy schools, and that's being polite.

My family taught in JPS until very recently. The problem is that for those few teachers that care, really care about teaching, their hands are tied when it comes to discipline. The kids don't get it at home and the district won't allow it in the schools. No accountability = the mess we have now.

9:50AM, you are absolutely correct. I am a retired JPS teacher, and what I have watched is more and more good teachers leaving the field. They leave not because they no longer care, but because they are so frustrated with not being able to teach in chaos.