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By Pleased Parents on 05. Our kids could not get accepted into top quality colleges and universities with stringent academic requirements to include those for ACT scores higher than most made at the GCHS. That is why hundreds of thousands of Latvians chose our website to find their significant other.

By Time To Clean the Education House! Will she pop back up somewhere else like that Whack-a-Mole game? And at a time when the presidents of WVU, Marshall and Concord are to co-chair Gov. Governors traditionally rubber stamp the recommended appointments. It is then properly squandered leaving students with substandard educations. One news source reported that 100 graduated in the class of 2018.

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Flertik.hr - Jeanette Riffle: Bats in the Belfry Bats in the belfry and one got in the church and was hiding under the organ bench when I went up to my organ last Wednesday night. The rule, 58CSR36, was authorized by the passage of SB 498 during the 2018 regular legislative session.

If there was any doubt as to what circumstances this applies, then recall the weather last week. It was some of the most oppressive summer weather in recent memory. If I were still railroading, the operating cab of an old locomotive would be about 115 degrees. Although we choose the day weeks in advance, Jean and I decided to take in the WV Arts and Crafts Festival at Cedar Lakes, along with grandkids Kenzie and Carson. Despite the heat and humidity, we had a great day and had the opportunity to see and meet some of the most talented artists and craftsmen around. The impeachment proceedings against one or more West Virginia Supreme Court Justices continue to move forward in the House of Delegates, with the Judiciary Committee beginning the investigation on behalf of the House. The Judiciary Committee plans to meet, beginning this Thursday through Saturday; then again on July 19 for at least three more days in order to prepare articles of impeachment. Each current Supreme Court justice is being investigated separately. Each of the managers appointed on the Judiciary Committee will present their evidence to the full House of Delegates for a vote. If adopted, it would then move to the Senate, where that body would serve as a jury in the proceedings. The last several days continue to have ups and downs for higher education in West Virginia. Shortly after his announcement, a study was released from a Colorado think tank that was commissioned by the Higher Education Policy Commission. While at this writing I have not reviewed the entire report, some of the initial recommendations, including combining the board of governors for four institutions - Bluefield State, Concord, Glenville and WV State — are non-starters for me. Meanwhile, I have made a request to the House Speaker in a phone conversation late last week to serve as one of the three House members on this panel. Moreover, it always seems that discussions begin with GSC being one of the first targets, which offends me greatly as it should for everyone in central West Virginia; alumni and friends of GSC from around the State and beyond; and specifically Glenville and Gilmer County. GSC has a positive story to tell and remains a vital component in the higher education system. I think it is an absolute necessity that advocates for our smaller, regional institutions have a seat at the table to look out for their interests, needs and concerns. However, the overall revenue collections are down in some key areas from previous years. By law, half of any surplus must go into the Rainy Day Fund. These initial priorities were placed in the back of the budget surplus section when the budget was approved. No one had better rest on their laurels will a slight surplus. Finally, Jean and I both are experiencing major problems in getting access to or communicating via Facebook. Apparently, many others are experiencing similar problems, with screens on mobile devices going black. Hopefully, this can be resolved soon. Please send your inquiries to my home office: 151 Park Street, Gassaway, WV 26624. My home number is 304. If you have an interest in any particular bill or issue, please let me know. When leaving a message, please remember to include your phone number with your inquiry and any details you can provide. Additional information, including agency links and the state government phone directory, may be found at. Continue to remember our troops - at home and abroad - and keep them and their families in your thoughts and prayers. Until next week — take care. Carmichael Claims Credit for Teacher Pay Raises He Tried to Kill West Virginia Senate President Mitch Carmichael now appears to be taking credit for the teacher pay raises he failed to stop earlier this year. When school employees went on statewide strike, the Republican-led Senate was blocking the higher pay they were demanding. He said the only thing holding them back was a tight budget. During regular demonstrations at the Capitol, strikers singled Carmichael out. The legislation passed during the 2018 Legislative Session and went into effect June 8th of this year. Rules regulating the manufacturing and sale of acidified cottage foods are currently out for public comment until July 27th. The following products, but not limited to, are applicable for this permit: pickled products, sauces, salsas, fermented products, acidified fruits and vegetables and all farm and food products that are required to be time or temperature-controlled. Commodities such as breads, cakes, candies, honey, tree syrup, apple butter, molasses, standardized, nondietary jams and jellies and dehydrated fruits and vegetables are exempt from this permit. Selling fresh, uncut product does not require a permit. Throughout this process, we have worked with the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, local health departments and numerous stakeholders to come up with rules and regulations for producers. Those producers who have already obtained a 2018 food establishment permit from their local health department do not need to pay for a farmers market vendor permit this year but must still submit a registration form with the WVDA. That is when the special Fellowship Dinner is scheduled and everyone is asked to bring extra food. We certainly exceeded expectations this past Sabbath with many casseroles and other items. The public is invited to these first-Sabbath feasts so that we can get acquainted with our neighbors. Tony and Maria Metzler added joy to the day by choosing to renew their wedding vows with a beautiful service, bride, flower girls, etc. They had beautifully decorated one section of tables with a lovely tiered wedding cake, balloons, flowers and other items to create an aura of love and peace. They had written their own vows and read them to each other. I repeat my invitation for you to come visit us any Sabbath, but if you want a good food afterwards, for certain, make it the first Sabbath of any month. You can read about how God instructs churches to choose and ordain elders and deacons in 1 Timothy 3 and 4 and Titus, and other places. It is quite a sobering experience. Roy Waybright and Michael Stutler are both fairly new Seventh-day Adventists and they were set apart by ordination for special work in the church. They and their families are great additions to our church. My granddaughter and her family were visiting today and she asked me what I did to keep busy. My days are always busy, even though more often than ever before I just have to stop and rest or nap. Everything takes me much more time than it used to. I study every day to prepare to teach the Sabbath School lesson on Sabbath. This includes prayer for myself, my family, and others. Everything I do is meaningless unless I am continuing in my relationship with Jesus, my Creator, my God. DNR seeks public comment on procedural rules The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources is seeking public comments on proposed and modified procedural rules. The first rule involves designating a new section of the New River where rental services area allowed. It also introduces safety qualifications for general outfitters and guides that operate and provide services in whitewater zones and increases the minimum threshold for required reporting of accidents. The rule, 58CSR12, is available. The second rule involves boating. The rule, 58CSR25, is available. The rule, 58CSR36, was authorized by the passage of SB 498 during the 2018 regular legislative session. It may be found. They will be advertised in the State Register and are available for review at the DNR South Charleston and Elkins offices. Sales-Tax Modernization Could Fill PEIA Gap Modernizing the state sales tax is now possible, due to a U. The decision late last month in the case means West Virginia can force internet retailers without a brick-and-mortar location in the state to pay sales tax, the same as in-state retailers. According to Ted Boettner, executive director of the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, one study found Amazon had been able to dodge billions of dollars in sales taxes that might now be collected. Online purchasers are supposed to voluntarily pay these taxes, although few have done so. The has found the state is now collecting less sales tax revenue as a portion of all consumer spending than it did in the 1990s. Boettner said meanwhile, the state cut deeply into support for higher education, and 20 towns and cities depend on their own local sales taxes. ~~ Dan Heyman ~~ Stonewall Jackson Lake named the best lake in WV Stonewall Jackson Lake has been ranked among the best lakes in the United States by MSN. The lake was rated on affordability, scenic beauty and fishing potential. Visit the Marina at Stonewall Resort to rent a pontoon boat, Aqua Cycle, or stand-up paddle board. The resort has 195 rooms and 12 cottages, and there are a number of other attractions, including a pool, spa, fitness center, restaurants, conference centers and an 18-hole Arnold Palmer Signature Golf Course. His group had urged Congress to delay the confirmation when Pruitt withheld documents revealing corporate influence in his decisions as Oklahoma attorney general. Many of the EPA regulations that Scott Pruitt scrapped or delayed as EPA administrator had not yet taken effect before his resignation. Pruitt expressed no regrets in a letter submitted to media outlets on Thursday. Environmental groups predict the Trump administration will continue its pattern of appointing the least likely candidate to head the agency. Kara Cook-Schultz, director of toxics program, thinks the president should take time to really understand the purpose of the EPA. Like President Trump, Pruitt voiced skepticism about mainstream climate science. Andrew Wheeler also doubts that humans are a primary cause of climate change. ~~ Dan Heyman ~~ Applications accepted for McClintic WMA controlled waterfowl hunt Waterfowl hunters who wish to hunt from a shooting station in the controlled waterfowl hunting zone of McClintic Wildlife Management Area WMA , located near Point Pleasant, must submit an application by midnight August 12. Hunting is by permit only on a portion of McClintic WMA during the October split of the waterfowl season. Hunters chosen in the lottery draw will be assigned an area free of charge and may bring one guest. A shooting station also is available for physically-challenged waterfowl hunters. Selected hunters will be randomly assigned a day to hunt and must report to the McClintic WMA office before 6 a. Consult the 2018-2019 West Virginia Migratory Bird Hunting Regulations for season dates and additional information. Migratory bird regulations will be available at DNR offices by early August and will be on the DNR website at. Report recommends merging Bluefield, Concord, Glenville, WVSU boards Citing declining enrollment, and increasing reliance on that enrollment rather than the state Legislature for funding, plus competition for students from West Virginia and Marshall universities, a report recommends merging the governing boards of Bluefield State College, Concord University, Glenville State College and West Virginia State University. And at a time when the presidents of WVU, Marshall and Concord are to co-chair Gov. In the absence of some external forces, this predation will continue. However, that risk varies significantly. This while Concord has empty dormitory space. More information can be accessed at. That web site provides SAT student information for WV institutions of higher learning and GSC has the lowest scores. Inferences from the scores and material in the report are that because GSC gets a large percentage of students from poor counties including Gilmer County, school systems there need improving. Also, with employers becoming more sophisticated in hiring the best qualified graduates they access information of the type published on the web site given above. The reason is that institutions with the best prepared students have more rigorous academic programs and they do not have to expend valuable time on remediation. Provision of this comment is not intended to be a slam at GSC. The purpose is to encourage Dr. Pellett and the Board of Governors to devise a viable strategy for making the College a center of excellence to improve its standing in WV. It is that simple for guaranteed survival in the future. The theme for the book is that alike thinkers of a group of elites in control can have colossal failures because they believe that their decision-making processes are unworthy of outside scrutiny. What about the millions of dollars of new construction at GSC? Did it result in healthy enrollments as promised. Some elites associated with GSC were strong advocates for the ill fated ventures. GSC has been controlled too long by members of the same families. With the undeniable track record of declining conditions a few resignations would be a positive step. The nagging governance problem affecting GSC has been shielding elite individuals from personal accountability without penalties for bad decisions. The first one deals with the group think Bay Of Figs disaster. Those in Washington associated with invasion decisions considered themselves to be infallible world class thinkers. That mistake prevented critical and constructive review from anyone outside that tight group of political operatives. The other example covers the Cuban Missile Crisis as an example of masterful diplomacy and planning to prevent a nuclear holocaust. President Kennedy deserved credit because he avoided group think traps from Bay Of Pigs lessons learned. Higher education decisions in WV are made by individual tight knit Boards of Governors with excessive autonomy and no meaningful oversight. Also, board members are there through political appointments at local levels. Governors traditionally rubber stamp the recommended appointments. When serious group think mistakes occur at colleges and universities Boards are conditioned to assume that State bail outs will cover damages. If private businesses are group think practitioners they never last unless they change strategies to avoid brutal market place penalties. Butler named New River CTC interim president The New River Community and Technical College Board of Governors has selected Dr. Kathy Butler to serve as interim president of New River Community and Technical College until the search is completed to fill the position vacated by the resignation of Dr. Butler has over 35 years of experience in West Virginia education, including 26 years in higher education both public and private and 10 years in public K-12 education. She has served as WV Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, working with both the Higher Education Policy Commission and the Community and Technical College System and later served as Special Assistant to the HEPC Chancellor. At the college level, Butler has held nearly every academic position at Glenville State College: faculty, Dean, Academic Vice President and Provost. She holds an Ed. Jeanette Riffle: Bats in the Belfry Bats in the belfry and one got in the church and was hiding under the organ bench when I went up to my organ last Wednesday night. We are into revival and I play organ before church and after. I yelled for my husband to come and get it before the service turned into a Mississippi Squirrel Revival. In this case a West Virginia bat revival. He said they fly at night and sleep in the daytime, so maybe it was just sleepy. Bats like to get in the bell tower of churches because they like darkness. One got in my parents house one night and Mom said she batted it all over the bedroom with a broom and finally got it. One other time a chipmunk got in their house and was making noises and keeping them awake at night, when it would go in their bedroom. She had to set a trap for that one. It was too quick and kept getting away from her. Everything likes dog food. The last time I wrote a story it was raining, but today it is hot and we have had sunshine all day. We heard on the weather report last night that we had a dry day ahead, so Duane jumped out before 6:30 this morning, started weed eating, and then did trimming on the little riding mower. He came in for coffee and breakfast and then went right back out again to mow with the big mower. Everyone is behind with outside work because of all the rain we have had. Tomorrow, he has to do more garden work. A friend of mine told me that the weeds got so high in her garden , she had to go in on them with a weed eater. What will July hold? We will take whatever we get, huh? This past week we have had sunshine and rain all in one day. First one and then the other all day long as the storms went through. Tonight is the last night of revival at Rosedale Baptist. Enjoy your family and friends and get out to attend the church of your choice. Until next time, take care and God bless! Copy of Declaration of Independence Was Hidden Behind Wallpaper When John Quincy Adams was not yet president but secretary of state, he ordered that 200 copies of the Declaration of Independence be made, as the then-40-year-old calfskin document was already becoming tough to read. And so it was done, with the copies—thought to be made over a two-year period by tracing the original, which facilitated the hand-engraving of it on a copper plate—being doled out in 1824 to political luminaries like Thomas Jefferson. During the Civil War, it was apparently hidden behind wallpaper in a Lexington, Va. The first one deals with the group think Bay Of Figs disaster. Those in Washington associated with invasion decisions considered themselves to be infallible world class thinkers. That mistake prevented critical and constructive review from anyone outside that tight group of political operatives. The other example covers the Cuban Missile Crisis as an example of masterful diplomacy and planning to prevent a nuclear holocaust. President Kennedy deserved credit because he avoided group think traps from Bay Of Pigs lessons learned. Higher education decisions in WV are made by individual tight knit Boards of Governors with excessive autonomy and no meaningful oversight. Also, board members are there through political appointments at local levels. Governors traditionally rubber stamp the recommended appointments. When serious group think mistakes occur at colleges and universities Boards are conditioned to assume that State bail outs will cover damages. If private businesses are group think practitioners they never last unless they change strategies to avoid brutal market place penalties. By WVU Political Scientist on 07. Basically GSC Board of Governors and other leadership positions, have been a result of nepotism and crony friend choices. Incest often produces less than desired outcomes as well. By PAST Time for change GSC on 07. The theme for the book is that alike thinkers of a group of elites in control can have colossal failures because they believe that their decision-making processes are unworthy of outside scrutiny. What about the millions of dollars of new construction at GSC? Did it result in healthy enrollments as promised. Some elites associated with GSC were strong advocates for the ill fated ventures. GSC has been controlled too long by members of the same families. With the undeniable track record of declining conditions a few resignations would be a positive step. The nagging governance problem affecting GSC has been shielding elite individuals from personal accountability without penalties for bad decisions. By Governance Changes Needed At GSC on 07. Everyone knows that school consolidation has resulted in failed outcomes. This is laying the ground work, for an ego driven power grab. The big institutions have no limit to their desire for money. Stay small, and if failure occurs, fewer people are impacted. Too large, and management of that soon turns into a problem. By Its just planned failure. More information can be accessed at. That web site provides SAT student information for WV institutions of higher learning and GSC has the lowest scores. Inferences from the scores and material in the report are that because GSC gets a large percentage of students from poor counties including Gilmer County, school systems there need improving. Also, with employers becoming more sophisticated in hiring the best qualified graduates they access information of the type published on the web site given above. The reason is that institutions with the best prepared students have more rigorous academic programs and they do not have to expend valuable time on remediation. Provision of this comment is not intended to be a slam at GSC. The purpose is to encourage Dr. Pellett and the Board of Governors to devise a viable strategy for making the College a center of excellence to improve its standing in WV. It is that simple for guaranteed survival in the future. By GSC GRAD on 07. From the outset the new school board should focus on exactly how well our students are performing with mastering subjects, and not to fall victim to news unrelated to demonstrated student learning. For one example the GCHS was awarded for its high graduation rate, but it ranked in the bottom 10% among WV high schools for college and career readiness of seniors. This is not to say that graduation rates are unimportant, but they cannot be interpreted as fact of a direct relationship with how well students are prepared for college and careers. By Give All Facts on 07. That job would be a good assignment for the new president. By Voters Watching on 07. No wonder the poor score. By Jumpin Jim Nose Dives on 07. For years while under State intervention it was denied that a gap existed, and the mantra was that the County was doing as well as the State as a whole. That was like saying that we are OK with the State being ranked near the bottom for the quality of its K-12 education system and we should be content to wallow at the bottom too. He has an unique opportunity to guide the College to contribute to Gilmer County having the best school system in WV as a model to emulate throughout the State and Appalachia. In the past the typical Charleston trap has been to collect achievement data without expending successful efforts to interpret its meaning for use in solving under-achievement. Lowther, and Shelly Mason, with the help of other professionals in our schools can jettison that long standing road block to make Gilmer County a K-12 education standout. Pellett in particular has an unparalleled opportunity to make his mark on guiding the College to improve K-12 education in the County and to let successes spread as examples throughout Appalachia. By Good News For WV on 06. One has to wonder. Now we are reading a judge likely to be impeached as well as the legislature is considering impeaching the governor? Are the any honest people running for offices? By The Silent Majority on 06. That building has been empty far too long. Now we shall see if it workable. Hope for all involved, that their efforts work out for GC and GSC. By Good on 06. It is how many new jobs were created for local employees. Politicians like to cite meaningless numbers to crow about and they get by with it too often. Empty store fronts on Main Street have not diminished in numbers. Where are the jobs and what do they pay? Elites see to it to keep peasants at bay. By SAT Checker on 06. Politics in the state are no longer ruled by mine union bosses. By The Silent Majority on 06. You would think so. EDA used to have monthly public meetings. Now only four times a year? Business things that slim nothing to discuss? Or maybe secret meetings by the insiders? For an example how did the County do with recent SAT testing? Superintendents have the information so when is it going to be made public? Hopefully the newly elected school board will take it on as a priority to get accurate student achievement information to the public with specific plans to make improvements where needed. By End Public Information Embargo on 06. How about it GCEDA President Jeff Campbell? Lets hear from you. By reader6 on 06. BUT, BUT, where are they? By Where are they? Another myth is that ticks will jump on you, of the thousands of ticks I have picked off grass blades and dropped in a cup of gasoline, I have never had one jump at me. By Trespasser Will on 06. They are best controlled by controlling the host varmints in your back yard. By Trespasser Will on 06. Rural West Virginia is STILL WAITING for that high speed internet that these two have been promising for 20 years! By Rural WV still waiting.... By WV's dilapidated economy on 06. By Tresspasser Will on 06. I will miss your mother, my best friend, immensely! We laughed hard together and we cried together, only as two close cousins could do! We spent many hours on the phone chatting either catching up or talking about cooking, any hour day or night,it never mattered to us. Money spent on Leading Creek, more money to fill the huge hole at GCES, money to fix land slide at GCES because of poor site design work, money spent to fix various other botches that should have been done right to begin with, uncalled for huge pay raises to select central office staff to buy them off, money for playground equipment when existing equipment could have been used, money for an unneeded payroll clerk at the central office, money for a principal at Troy when the individual did not do the work, and more to include building GCES too small and Leading Creek too large with public funds. Will anything be done about it? Of course not except to continue the cover-up. Money trail too hot to handle. By Etched Memory on 05. Hard to believe how much good they are doing for so many, in just a few short years! Keep up the good works! Thousands of dollars wasted. Do not forget the Cedar Creek property chosen by State Appointed Superintendent Blankenship in coercion with the former, ousted, GSC President Simmons. Then to get out of that mess, Blankenship and Simmons, trade that property, so a school could be built in a flood plain? If only people were as smart as they think they are. By Another black eye for state intervention! Either poor hiring practices or someone pulling strings. By questions but no answers? Fortunately, he got caught by the board. By Ridiculous on 05. Thanks the board for choosing a different auditor. By FTM on 05. They mismanaged funds and paid off several employees to keep their mouth shut. When the local controlled board chose a different auditor from the norm, they got caught. I think the remaining paid off employees need to talk the facts, quit, or get prosecuted. By They were bad on 05. DM had gotten into trouble with the auditors. In previous years, findings for mismanagement of funds were issued against him in connection with other work places leading to dismissal. By Don LK on 05. By Jeremy D on 05. By Just Curious on 05. It was reported there was no place for it to take place. Thank you Gilmer County Board of Education for making it happen. By Some remember on 05. I remember may times spent in your home with your parents and brothers. Sending love and prayers to you and your brothers. Sherry Broggi By Sherry Straley Broggi and Rita Straley on 05. He never misses these events? By Very nice project - great volunteers! There probably were students who began in 2014 and they earned 2 year degrees before 2018 so they were not drop outs. Setting up a scholarship fund is a GREAT idea! Where can we get information on who to contact and what local needs are? By Reader on 05. Accurate information should be available to indicate retention. One news source reported that 100 graduated in the class of 2018. By Alumni on 05. Should shake the trees a little. By Betty Woofter on 05. The last time information was reported WV State was listed at 13. GSC was at 25. Comments submitted so far flag a serious problem in WV. Student achievement information is scattered all over with it being reported by the State, the federal government, and testing organizations including ACT. Because WV lacks an effective State clearing house to sort through the information and to interpret it for practical application in improving our pubic school systems, too much important quality control material is neglected. By WVDE Career Employees on 05. The 35% graduation rate includes incoming freshmen who do not finish in four years, and it is factual that some of our public colleges have worse records than others. WVU does above average, but it has large numbers of-out-of state better prepared students. In essence that is a FAILURE rate of 65%! Think of how many dollars are wasted, and how many students are burdened with student loans, that basically will do them little good in life. It does pump money into the flawed system. By Wv Has a FLAWED educational system! If we accept the often cited excuse that there is a problem with kids and their families to cause under achievement in school that line of reasoning suggests that West Virginians are inherently flawed. By Rex Page on 05. The deficiency forces students to attend lower tier places where everyone is accepted. Why does WV fail to make improvements? It is because education delivery in our State is designed to be void of meaningful accountability for administrators. By WVDE Watcher on 05. This has been proven over and over in other school systems. Its an out dated and antiquated system. Our board of education needs to get rid of it. Gilmer County Board of Education…. By Block Schedule Supported By Blockheads on 05. It is far better to read timely news than to have to go to the Cornerstone to get it. Shuff the best in improving learning results at the HS. If he tackles problems like he engaged in athletics the HS will be put on the map for academic excellence. When he gets his school improvement plan together everyone in the County will pitch in to help him succeed. By Pleased Parents on 05. Williams has it nailed down. Education administrators worry about their job than worry about the children. Youth is our future. By creating dummies, do not expect much of a future. The children are being short changed, robbed. America is being short changed, robbed. But the failed administrators keep their jobs. By Time To Clean the Education House! Certainly would seem so! We are almost daily bombarded with chemical spraying from above. We rarely actually have that clear, deep blue sky that God gave us. If it happens we do get a clear? Set a white bowl out in the rains. Check to see what color the water is after a rain. You will be surprised. Color will vary depending what is being sprayed on a given day. No more are all snowflakes different. Again, depends what toxic material we are being blasted with. Asthma attacks, ER visits are on the rise. Do some web searching, plenty of websites report this travesty. By WHERE ARE THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS? The misinformation conflicts with verification that our grads lag when it comes to being college and career ready. By being disadvantaged academically too many students drop out of college when they cannot compete and they often must go an extra year at a greater expense to catch-up. There is another type of fraud not pointed out in the posting. For the ACT the average GCHS score as touted by school officials is close to 20. This may be slightly higher than average State scores, but here is the rub. Our kids could not get accepted into top quality colleges and universities with stringent academic requirements to include those for ACT scores higher than most made at the GCHS. What do they do? They attend institutions with relaxed acceptance criteria with some not having any basic requirements for ACT or SAT scores. As a parent with a son at the Career Center I know that there must be remedial instruction in math and English for success in chosen career fields. It is called embedded instruction. Because teachers must be hired at the Center for the catch-up it means that tax payers are paying twice more fraud for instruction that should have been done at the GCHS! What can we do? Gilmer County must determine what must be done in our schools to make necessary improvements for the better to enable our kids to be the best they can be after HS. By We Want Better Schools on 04. The powerful in control do not want to make achievement results available for voters to compare academic results among districts! That way opportunities for more accountability in ways school systems are administered will be nipped in the bud. Unfortunately the strategy will be to keep voters keenly focused on sports so they will not ask questions about education spending and how children are doing in mastering subjects in our school systems. By WVDOE Disgusted on 04. Currently, it is hard to envision any positive change in their SOP? Try this, try that. Change this, change that. Continual evidence that all is being run as an experiment? The WVBOE has no real clue what to actually do, in order to fix anything. Children cheated of a good education. Parents and taxpayers cheated. This is the WVBOE legacy. By State BOE - dysfunctional is an understatement? By Justice, pay your tax bills! Taxpayers give the state the funds for education. It is then properly squandered leaving students with substandard educations. These people have the audacity to blame the teachers on top of it. State BOE, suck it up, fix the problem you and your previous board members have created. By Kanawha Reader on 04. It would be interesting to know how much Gilmer County spends per pupil counting total funding from all sources. WV is certainly no way near the top third with getting students college, career, and jobs ready right out of high school. Where is all our money going? What could we learn from rural states similar to Utah? The worst culprit seems to be too many high paid people on WV payrolls who are non-contributers to making better lives for our kids. By Economist on 04. For something this important the problems and solutions surely have been looked into. By Don't bring them to Gilmer! The State reports on Zoom that 10th graders at the GCHS perform at the 35. Proficiency for 11th graders is 37% in math and it is commendable that the rate for them for reading is 64%. What is being done to make improvements for science and math when students are about ready to graduate from HS? We hope that scores for reading hold up and even improve. In other WV counties superintendents provide that type of information on a routine basis. By GCHS Parents on 04. Can actually make an entire state look like idiots. Idiots for electing him at the minimum. Looks like we have to find the patience to tolerate this bs two more years…... Congratulations to the WV state employees giving him a good lesson. By Makin Arch Look Good on 04. Someone in the board office should be assigned to write up news to keep citizens informed. We are expected to vote in more tax money to run the schools and we deserve to be informed of positive improvements being made with our money instead of taking our support for granted. It works both ways. We hear that improvements are being made to increase student performances in mathematics, reading, and other areas. The changes include getting back to basics for math teaching to eliminate achievement gaps. Would someone write up something to explain the new changes to keep the community informed? One improvement I know is that progress reports come home regularly so families can track how kids are doing. There is nothing wrong with positive news getting out to demonstrate that Gilmer County is positioning itself to become a leader in public education. The County deserves all the positive press it can get. By Appreciative Parent on 04. That was clearly understood by our state employees. That dissention was completely ignored by our failed state leadership. Clearly it was time for action. Social media was a major player…. The Governor, the Legislators, have now been put on notice to not ignore state issues, while they feather their own nests. Now, lets see social media swing into action, straighten out the Public Service Commission, and their gross failure to hold Frontier Communications lack of customer service to the fore. Some leader needs to step forward and make it happen. We see what can happen with some leadership. Social media is the citizens friend. The election is just a few weeks away. Its time to build a fire under the Public Service Commission. Governor Justice you might even give it a shot to fire them…... How can this be done? Establish goals for math, science, and other subjects and aggressively manage the school system accordingly. This will require establishment of a clearly written, professionally done holistic plan containing specific goals to achieve, establishment of personal accountability at different levels in the school system, accurate and timely reporting of achievement results as we proceed, and applying improved approaches when necessary to keep the plan on track. Where we go from here is the primary responsibility of the elected school board. Teachers and staffs are more than ready to deal with obstacles confronting them and all they need is to be enabled to do their jobs. The time is over for continuing to be hampered with lame excuses for why major improvements cannot be made i. By Gilmer County Teacher on 03. They are the regulatory agency that is basically letting FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS run unregulated for all landline customers. Frontier customers wait days and days for landline service. Many in our state live where there is no cell coverage, so no other choice for service. Our elected reps need to pressure the Public Service Commission to get their chit together, do their job, and stop giving in to the Frontier lobby crew. West Virginians deserve better! By West Virginia resident on 03. I think CANADA is also a very good place to live. By Rahul on 03. I think he would have liked he words printed here about him. West Virginia lost another good one. By Marlea Cottrill on 03. Will she pop back up somewhere else like that Whack-a-Mole game? By Charleston Reader on 03. Nothing can really prepare us for such a loss as this. We are thinking about you at this sad time. By Brian and Montie VanNostrand on 03. The lesson from this sad saga is to focus on facts instead of what politicians try to pull over on voters. The chronic problem in WV is that facts are routinely hidden by some politicians to keep voters misinformed. By Bill Williams on 03. We recall the hill crest fund raiser out along Mineral Road to raise money for the Manchin political machine. Karma is alive and well WV!