The private school principal who gained national attention for a racially charged comment she made during a graduation ceremony has been fired, but still owns the school and will likely reap any financial benefit from it.
Dr. Heidi Anderson, chair of the board of directors at TNT Academy, wrote in a letter sent to the Gwinnett County NAACP that the board voted to dismiss school director Nancy Gordeuk:
"In light of recent events, the board of directors of TNT Academy has moved to dismiss Nancy Gordeuk as principal. During the coming transition, we will continue to prioritize support for our most recent graduates. Moreover, we will continue our commitment to providing students with the best educational classes, transcription services, and academic credit recovery possible."
So this woman is "fired" and yet will still get paid? #justwhitepeoplethings.
Remember this is not only a woman who started berating people as being rude for talking through a valedictorian speech that SHE totally forgot about and insulted black people for walking out, but she is also the person who claimed that the devil made her do it.
The devil.
Sounds to me like this is just a cosmetic change to protect from losing its accreditation, and that the school will function as always, with this Gordeuk woman making decisions as before and reaping the financial benefits as if nothing ever happened.
You know for awhile I was kind of confused as to what kind of "alternative" school this was. But not anymore.
TNT Academy is a non-traditional school for home-schooled students hoping to obtain accredited degrees.
Ahh, homeschool. That explains a lot.
You know my daughter attended another one of these "alternative" schools while SHE was homeschooled in Georgia.
It was also a crappy educational program that failed to help my daughter get the accreditation she needed to graduate, even though she completed ALL of the course work.
Eventually I had to help her get her GED here in Alaska, which she managed to do in record time.
One of the parents said that they paid $3,000 to attend this school for a year, and that there was an additional $300 fee for the graduation ceremony. Sounds like a huge rip off to me.
And Jeb Bush and plenty of other Republicans would love to see more of these kinds of schools, dontcha know (this having nothing itself to do with Common Core - whole 'nother sack of potatoes).
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While I agree this is just a "cosmetic" fix at least the students won't be exposed to her on a daily basis.
ReplyDeleteJust remember when you hear Republicans talk about pulling funding from public schools and giving parents a voucher so they have a 'choice', it is to "schools" like these that your tax dollars will support.
ReplyDeleteBullshit on that.
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Totally agree with you!
Just look at Jerry Falwell and his Lynchburg Christian Academy which was founded in 1967. Any guesses what they were running from? Couldn't have been desegregation?
DeleteBonus blast from the red state recent past:
How Alabama taught its children to be racists -- and what will it do with science?
http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2015/05/how_alabama_taught_its_childre.html
"Fourth graders until the '70s learned how living on a plantation was "one of the happiest ways of life." Just imagine yourself, the 1957 edition says, on your family plantation:
"How's it coming Sam," your father asks one of the old Negroes.
"'Fine, Marse Tom, 'jes fine. We got 'most more cotton than we can pick.' Then Sam chuckles to himself and goes back to picking as fast as he can.
"One of the little Negro boys is called 'Jig' He got that name because he dances so well when the Negroes play their banjos.
"Jig comes up and says 'Let me play.'"
"And you say "All right, but you be the captive Indian."
"That will be fun," Jig says, and he goes off gladly to be the Indian, to hide and the get himself captured.""
Well, she's not the principal and she's not the president of the board. She may have one vote on the board but that doesn't mean she controls anything. I doubt she is the sole owner either. I doubt she'll be allowed to make any more public addresses at any school functions in the future. She can rant all she wants in the board meetings, until she's kicked off the board and her share in the school is bought out.
ReplyDeleteInstead of attending a free public school where you graduate with fully accredited degree you pay
ReplyDelete$3000 for a year and another $300 for "graduation"?
...there's an education right there, if you look for it.
Yes, but they aren't smart enough to recognize the main point.
DeleteYou don't understand the scare tactics used by evangelical culture. My parents, both products of Christian schools, sincerely believed that if they sent me to public school, I would be bullied, ostracized, harassed, undereducated, and likely raped. This fear was so strong that when I was bullied, ostracized, harassed, undereducated, and molested at the "Christian" school where they sent me, they refused to let me go somewhere else because they believed, and everyone in their world told them, that public school would be even worse.
DeleteI talked about suicide all the time. I constantly tried to make myself sick so I wouldn't have to go to school. I had breakdowns during class -- I'd start crying and be unable to stop for hours. I cut myself. I have been diagnosed with PTSD as a result of the extreme bullying and abuse at that school. And to this day, my parents say, "You would have been picked on anywhere, and public school would have destroyed you. But maybe we should have tried a different Christian school."
I understand why your daughter wasn't very successful after attending one of the for-profit "alternative schools" here in GA, Gryphen. I'm a retired high school teacher. I know quite a few kids who left our high school in Middle GA to attend one of these for-profit "alternative schools," and I can't identify one of them who earned a high school diploma or GED as a result. Why? Because these "schools" are rip-offs for the most part. They sprung up here in GA after the GOP won a majority in the state legislature and took over the governor's mansion. Their track record for preparing students for life beyond high school is terrible. The best way I can describe them is to call them fake diploma mills. I'm glad you were able to help your daughter get her GED because I don't think she would have it had she remained in GA at one of these for-profit "alternative diploma mills."
ReplyDelete"One of the parents said that they paid $3,000 to attend this school for a year, and that there was an additional $300 fee for the graduation ceremony. Sounds like a huge rip off to me."
ReplyDeleteThose parents made the choice to be ripped off probably because they value xtian indoctrination over actual education. I would venture to guess that the fact this was a "christian" school was a big factor in their decision to send their children there.
If she owns a stake in this business, then now I'm even more pissed than the first time she opened her mouth. I clearly remember Alex Wagner saying she was fired and will no longer be working for that school, if she owns a stake, she's making money while being a racist, which is even worse.
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