Assignment 10

031711-LAH-Assignment 10
Laura Hatfield
Assignment 10
03/17/11

When comparing the online minutes for the Cabell County Board of Education meeting, Tuesday, March 15 to an article in The Herald-Dispatch, Wednesday, March 16, I noticed the reporter came up with some very good points about the meeting’s cosmetic concerns.
The minutes seemed to match the story perfectly for what I could see, but the story was solely about one aspect of the meeting. The Herald Dispatch only let me read a brief part of the story but I really liked how the reporter related all of the issues to a cosmetic standpoint. When talking about the renaming of the boardroom, the reporter made a good point by saying the board members were then questioning if there were board members in the past that made large contributions that we do not hear of. By the reporter bringing up this one scenario a few questions have come to mind.
• How many board member presidents before Ted Barr had committed a lot of time to the Board of Education?
• Why did they choose to name the room after Barr? Was it just because he died in office?
• How does the board recognize outstanding board members, past and present?
• Barr was not the first Board of Education president, why weren’t the former presidents honored in some way? If the president’s were honored, how were they honored?