Midlands SC School District Misleading The Public … Again
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“poop” rolls downhill, everytime
District 5 should be renamed Stalag 5. In this death camp taxpayers are held up their heels until they are bled dry, one dollar at a time. Voters time after time have re-elected the same group to the school board even after being lied to, manipulated and literally bull dozed into programs and projects that offer little if nothing toward the education of children. Stalag 5 administrators are among the best paid in the state. Administrative staff are among the rudest in the world even outdistancing French Waiters. Teachers are among the best in the State doing a fantastic job with little or no support or materials. In addition to the “up yours” actions cited by Sic Willie you have Stalag 5’s latest attempt to move in a new direction. Now that the school board has laid waste to any sincere effort to promote academic programs they have hired a retired “coach” to the tune of over $100,000. Since the principal of the school has to earn more than the highest paid staff member he/she will be making over $100,000 as well, if not making that already. Is there any doubt that the remaining non-teaching staff will have to receive additional compensation to stay up with the pack. Apparently the new “Jewel of Stalag 5” will be a State Championship Football Team. Condolences to the death of the academic classroom of the former Lexington-Richland School District Five.
Will: she gave you bad info. We are oblgate to actually tell the truth.
herb berg – You don’t write like a superintendent. BTW – Thumbs up to the teachers of Lexington-Richland 5.
Herb probably has forgotten how to write. He is one old dude. Old dudes tend to have poor memories. District Five should be renamed “As the District Turns”. There is more shullduggery than in the current White House.
I’m shocked…about as shocked as I was when the enrollment figures published by Dr. AndersEn had no basis in reality.
The voters were dumb enough to believe the student’s population was increasing when it was in fact declining…sorry….the gray beards in all those new patio homes in Irmoland weren’t fathering children anymore…despite the mass quantities of viagra sold at the Kroger on Woodrow.
speaking of viagra – I’m still loving my missive from September 7, 2008:
“We’ve gone from having a Superindentent acting virile to a Superintendent acting senile.”
The more things change the more they stay the same….
There’s more to the story…Go to: thenerve.org – District 5 Can’t Quench Thirst for Growth
http://thenerve.org/Comments/10-02-01/District_5_Can_t_Quench_Thirst_for_Growth.aspx?searchid=22423040-629e-4d48-80f4-f17ad9feb265
How much longer are these Lexington Richland 5 board members going to sit there like bumps on logs and tolerate this administration’s corrupt behavior? Kinda beginning to look like they support it. Shame, shame. Herb Berg left Kershaw County in a financial mess. Guess this district is next.
And Lee Bollman is currently drawing a salary of $136,000 as a classroom teacher. And Mike Satterfield has been reassigned in the District, from Principal at Chapin High, to who knows and at what salary? Why???. Then the old story about Scott Andersen, former Superintendant, seems his wife Bernice has an interesting past. First, her first child was born out of wedlock to a Mexican drug dealer. She was an “exotic” dancer with other activities, etc. This story is getting bigger. What sort of credibility looms here?????
Does this mean that the Mexican drug dealer, father of Bernice’s first born, was serving as a means for her to make money on sexual favors. Was this before she joined the Mormon Church???
To A Kerry. No she left that life style, and relationship with the married drug dealer, when she came into the Mormon Church. After coming into the Mormon Church she married her current husband, Scott Andersen, also a Mormon, and they married and had the other children.I believe he adopted the child born out of wedlock to the Mexican, married drug dealer.
Not only is Herb senile, he’s gradually hiring all of his former cohorts from Kershaw into newly created administrative positions in Lex 5. These are the same positions that were eliminated last year due to “budget problems” but apparantly, these budget woes no longer exist, at least when it comes to hiring administrators. Does it seem odd to anyone that neither the current superintendent (Berg) or the assosciate superintendent, Helen Anderson, were hired through the normal advertise the position – interview – then hire method. Both of these individuals were appointed as “interim” but remain, and, in closed session board meetings, they are no longer “interim” status. Hmmmmm….something is definately rotten in this district!
FYI-Mr. Satterfield ASKED to be reassigned because of his disabled son who needs his time and attention at this point in his life…something very admirable and selfless. Get your facts straight. And while your at it, leave Dr. Bollman alone for goodness sake and quit beating a dead horse…Dr. AndersEn is long gone.
To teacher in Lexington Five. I think you have your facts wrong. And this situation has nothing to do with Andersen. It is just a known fact that when the District doesn’t want to tell the “truth” they say someone wants to be “reassigned.” It is more then UNUSUAL that Lee Bollman, classroom teacher, is making $136,000 a year. Let’s see what the reassigned Mr. Satterfield makes??? Public information on WLTX-19. I could care less about Andersen. Why did you bring that up. What is is in this district. And emloyees’ jobs are threatened if they talk about any of this?????
To teacher in Lexington V. It was well known that Mike Satterfield had numerous affairs. He was once moved from one school to another because of an affair with a teacher. And Lee Bollman. There are a lot of questions here. There are some of us here in the District who want to appear at a Board meeting soon and raise questions about this. Get your facts straight.
To Teacher at Lex. V. You know many are questioning these “requests to be reassigned” notices in this district. That’s what Lee Bollman’s resignation read. However, according to WLTX, Channel 19’s Data Center on school district salaries, he is still making $136,000 as a classroom teacher. That is the second highest earning individual in the district, behind Berg himself. So what do you mean saying leave him alone.
What does this mean. Mike Satterfield asked to be “reassigned.” That is what Lee Bollman said. Go to WLTX Channel 19 and you click on their
Data Center, School District Salaries and plug in Lee Bollman and find that he is making $136,000 a year as a classroom teacher. That appears strange.
To Susan Paige: You raise some interesting points about Berg hiring people from his old district to fill administrative positions. Also about the “interim” positions becoming permanent. I was hoping Berg would leave and the district would start fresh with seeking and interviewing a new and more qualified candidate. Morale in this district is sinking.
According to an email sent to CHS staff, Mr. Satterfield explained his request for a reassignment. It was based on his need to spend more time with his handicapped son. Have you ever dealt with an adult, handicapped child? There are tremendous needs. End of story, no conspiracies. Why all the attacks on others? Do not lump Dr. Bollman’s situation with Mr. Satterfield’s. By the way, both are fine educators for our district. Small minds can’t help but make up big stories. Morale is sinking in D5 but I think more can be attributed to negative bloggers and community members.
Well actually I heard from someone who has connections in the District Office that first the chief financial officer was fired, and then there was a lot of activity in the District Office with slaming doors, etc. Then Lee Bollman and his secretary were both reassigned. Why were they both reassigned??? Then I was told Mike Satterfield would be next. I expected to see him resign before the start of the school year based on this information. Guess they didn’t want to throw too much at the public at once. Would be really nice if the tax payers were informed as to what is going on. They might find that the tax payers could handle the “news” whether good or bad rather than the deception of knowing they aren’t telling the truth.
To teacher in Lexington V. And similarly, the former Principal at Harbison West Elementary, sent a message to his staff at Harbison that he had requested he be ‘REASSIGNED” from a principal to an administrative assistant at another elementary school. Everyone who knew him knew that wasn’t the whole story. Actually, he found another job as a Principal in another part of the state. So we are quite aware of these reassignment messages. It is so unfortunate.
And Lee Bollman’s counterpart, Jim Shirley, Director of Elementay Education, whose position was eliminated a month or two after Bollman was reassigned, married the woman he had an extramartial affair with. Now they are both Principals in Beaufort County.
Berg and a couple of political members of the Board are the worst things that have happened in this District. As will be forthcoming, Berg and a couple of the Board members have been totally dishonest, or at least that is the way it currently appears. I don’t mind being proven wrong but the evidence is strong at this juncture.
I am not sure Berg started this whole mess; but perhaps went along with it. I think it was the School Board, led by Ed White and his wife Bea, who wanted their children to receive preferential treatment at the schools they attended. Most of the teachers at our school feel this is what happened???? Perhaps this will come out in the future. Also maybe it shoud be a requitement that school board members don’t have children in the schools at question so administrators and teachers aren’t under this kind of pressure. Might be difficult to get this but certainly would have advantages. Also this should be extended to real estate ventures and profits as well.
Thanks the author for article. The main thing do not forget about users, and continue in the same spirit.
Susan Paige,
You’re absolutely right! The most recent hire is Reggie Dean, one of Berg’s good ol’ boys from Camden High School in Kershaw County. Word is that he left CHS because of budget cuts and has landed a nice, cushy job in Lex. 5, making $50,000 more than he was making (and for doing less work, of course). He can thank the overburdened taxpayers.
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