I know it's customary for the new school superintendent to visit all the media sources once they settle down. He made his rounds to all the radio and television stations to introduce himself. Let's hope he doesn't become to regular with the media. Where you see his face every time you watch the evening news. Some people didn't even know who the county school superintendent (Bobby Webb) was, until he asked for a $56,000 raise. Mr. Cash should follow suit. Now that Kriner Cash has made his rounds. He should become incognito to a degree. He needs to make his public appearances few and far between. For the sake of credibility. I hope we have seen the end of his publicity tour. I watched him speak to a star gazed crowd at his welcome rally. People were scrambling to shake his hand or get a picture with him. The crowd was noticeably black and female. If that makes any difference. Let's see if we get the same participation at the PTA meetings.In my opinion he started out on the wrong foot. You can't be all things for all people all the time. His first executive decision was made under pressure. Kenneth Whalum is playing politics at Kriner Cash's expense. I'm sure Cash knows that Whalum was one of the Mayor's most avid supporters to fill the superintendent job. The plan to open a school devoted solely to training fireman and police is a bad idea. We already have schools like that in place. They're called vocational schools. That idea is old. I've heard a lot of reinventing the wheel. If we had a lot of parent involvement and mentoring programs in the schools, they wouldn't be in trouble. We already know what's wrong. We've known that for years. I think the key to his success lies in his ability to control student behavior. That's where the true test begins. Will he be able to appease those people who are really causing the problem. They weren't at the meeting.
He's going to be on the Thaddeus Matthews Show Friday. He obviously doesn't know Memphis very well yet!!!
ReplyDeleteUh oh. Not that guy again. I hope that Dr. Cash will help the school system be more successful and meet its goals. He appear to be really excited to take on the role of being the leader of Memphis City Schools. I believe that we all will find our own impression of this guy as the another year begin next month and the year progress.
ReplyDeleteWill Thad be respectful of him since he is a well educated black man? You never know, most well educuated black men who have been successful and made something of themselves have been on the recieving end of Thad calling them an Uncle Tom.
ReplyDeleteIf Cash does show on that Matthews show, his credibility is TOTALLY destroyed before he even STARTS his work here.
ReplyDeleteThat will be an IMMEDIATE death knell to the populous of Memphis that actually DOES care about the welfare of its citizens and cildren.
Dr Cash, don't do it. it will be a mistake of monumental proportion.
Once Dr. Cash reads Thaddeus' blog, he'll know that he has his work cut out for him in the MCS...
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ReplyDeleteI have no doubt he is excited. Who wouldn't be excited about getting a promotion to a $250,000 job.
ReplyDeleteIf the show does materialize. Thaddeus will be so glad to have him, he will be falling all over himself to be accomodating. The nexus of his questions as well they should be. Will be about corporal punishment.
ReplyDeleteI heard he was on Ben Ferguson's show. I would have liked to hear that interview myself. His appearances were almost like cameo appearances.
I heard Bev Johnson say he needed to hire Dr. Warren Harper. That's another $150,000 salary the system doesn't need. Then he'll have to have a staff.
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to Kriner Cash? He didn't show. Thud didn't give an explanation.
ReplyDeleteThad had said on RThursday why he wouldnt show. He said that he was informed that Dr Cash was double booked and would have top re-schedule.
ReplyDeleteTruth be told is most likely Dr Cash's people informed hin of what a mistake it would be to do his show and he cancelled.
Superintendent Cash, city of Memphis get to know each other
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By Dakarai I. Aarons (Contact), Memphis Commercial Appeal
Monday, July 14, 2008
He's only been superintendent of Memphis City Schools for two weeks, but Kriner Cash has already learned a key lesson about the Bluff City: It's a really big small town.
Within days of his selection, people began walking up to him in grocery stores wishing him well.
Cash and his wife, Lisa, an art teacher, plan to settle in a Midtown home close to the district office.
"There's a sentiment of hope and promise," Cash said. "People do get along here and are proud of our city."
Memphians, too, are beginning to learn more about the Princeton and Stanford-educated Cash, whose unusual name testifies to a diverse family heritage.
Kriner was the maiden name of his white mother, Donna, a native of Pennsylvania whose family was of German descent.
Cash's grandfather, who worked as a butler for several governors of West Virginia, recommended combining the two family names for the firstborn son.
"It's a unique name," he said. "I'm proud of it."
Tops among his immediate priorities are solving the district's budget crisis and bringing transparency to an organization often criticized for secrecy.
The time is now, he said, for responsible leadership on the budget issue because the district is already feeling the effects.
Anxious teachers are starting to make moves for other school districts and some parents are pulling their children out of Memphis schools, unwilling to wait for the uncertainty to be resolved.
"What school district can take 110,000 students that is nearby? I don't see one," he said. "You have to think about the consequences to the decision."
But Cash, a basketball star in his Cincinnati high school days, said working under pressure helps him perform at his peak.
"The harder (the circumstances) are, the calmer, the more careful, considerate and the more deliberate I am," Cash said. "During the time of crisis, I am clear-headed, I'm straight and I'm in control of myself."
It's a lesson he said was learned two decades ago when childhood illnesses threatened the lives of two of his sons and required them to be rushed to the hospital.
And he plans to put it into use to solve a funding crisis created before his hiring, when the Memphis City Council voted to cut $66.2 million from the district's $931 million operating budget. The state reacted to that decision by saying it will yank its $423 million in funding by October if the local funding is not restored.
"From my early observations, that is the kind of leadership that is needed right now at this time in Memphis City Schools history," he said. "I don't care what the issue is, you are not going to see me panic about it. You will not see me falter on these issues for these children."
Cash has gotten an earful from media representatives and others about the district's reputation for delaying or refusing to turn over public information, which in one recent case resulted in a lawsuit by The Commercial Appeal.
He's said he wants information to be turned over within 48 hours whenever possible and wants to create an "information culture" where information is shared freely not only externally, but within the district so that emerging good practices can be replicated.
"What you will see from me is transparency and full disclosure of information and data and knowledge," he said. "We'll be better when we become open. That's what democracy is about."
Beyond those two areas, Cash is planning to focus on reform of middle and high schools that will create career academies tied into the top business priorities in Memphis.
The goal: Students better able to transfer skills learned in schools to well-paying, highly respected jobs.
"If we don't get more of our young people educated, in an economy that is already faltering, your unemployment will be off the chart," he said. "I see the urgency. I see the centrality."
Cxsh has done pretty good. We finally find out why he didn't come on the Thaddeus Matthewa show. He would only give him fifteen minutes, probably over the phone.
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