1017/08 READER SUBMITTED COMMENTS FROM OUR FAVORITE POSTER: Anonymous Says Greenwich Citizen Now Has News About Betty Sternberg Being Fired

Greenwich Citizen Finally Reports That Betty Is Out Of Here !!!!

Greenwich Roundup

The Greenwich Citizen has responded to your post about no news about Dr. Sternberg's departure.

http://www.greenwichcitizen.com/localnews/ci_10738504

Anonymous

This Was In Response Too:

10/17/08 News Links From The Greenwich "We Are Not Talking About Betty" Citizen

What About Betty?????

Last Week The Greenwich "We Love Betty And Not The Kids" Citizen reported that Betty Sternberg poor performance was punished with a salary cap that despite rewarding her with an increase in pay would give her "far less than an optimum salary bonus". Yes Greenwich "We Love Betty And Not The Kids" Citizen was telling us how the board of education punished Betty "The town's highest wage earner" Sternberg with a raise.

But now for two days the Greenwich "We Love Betty And Not The Kids" Citizen Doesn't Want To Report That Betty "The town's highest wage earner" Sternberg will resign in of June of next year. Maybe they are hoping that Betty "The town's highest wage earner" Sternberg will change her mind !!!!!!!

Comment:

Would someone just shoot me I can't take this anymore !!!!

After Two Days This Is The Best That Hearst Newspapers Can Produce.

Sternberg to Leave School Post

Article Last Updated: 10/17/2008 01:10:01 PM EDT

Dr. Betty Sternberg, superintendent of the Greenwich Public Schools, informed the Board of Education Wednesday that she has decided not to seek renewal of her contract.

"I plan to stay for the duration of my contract and will continue to refine the course we have started," Sternberg wrote. "I look forward to working together cooperatively as we develop a budget that will support our educational system in these financially challenging times."

Sternberg succeeded Dr. Larry Leverett as superintendent three years ago.

That's It Folks

It Took Two Days For The Greenwich "We Love Betty More Than The Kids" Citizen to get parts of a Board Of Education Press Release up on their so-called "news" website.

Please read citizen journalist Bill Clark's report about Betty's Departure and compare it to the report above that no Hearst Newspaper employee wants to to put their byline on.

What's this stupid argument that mainstream reporters are so much better than citizen journalists and bloggers?

This is not the only time Bill Clark has scooped Hearst Newspapers.

Please read this Tuesday, September 30, 2008 report from Greenwich Gossip:

Betty Sternberg Gets an "F"

Your scribe has been down to the Board of Ed, and has picked up a copy of the Harris survey that was carried out in May and June of this year. As you may recall, dear reader, the survey was machine-readable, having been filled out with #2 lead pencils just as we all used to do with the SATs. Theoretically, the raw results should have been available within 24 hours. But that's not the way these surveys work.

Clearly the public cannot be trusted with the raw data. It has to be massaged and obfuscated first. If certain results are not as wished, a portion of the surveys can simply be declared unusable. If a certain issue - e.g., the level of dissatisfaction with the superintendant - is too one-sided, the "impact index" must be applied to mitigate this fact. Other factors used to massage the data are called the "incidence rate" and the "penalty", which must be multiplied together to provide the numerator of the "impact score", and so on and so forth. Finally, if a certain segment of the population survey (in this case, community leaders and RTM members) is wildly anti-Betty, you can just decide not to report most of their results at all.

The survey was filled out by four general categories of "stakeholders" (shades of Wall Street!): students, teachers, parents, and community leaders. The students, being clearly not yet fully educated by definition, were not allowed to register an opinion of Betty. But the other three categories were, and in each of these groups Betty came in dead last in the "satisfaction" sweepstakes.....

Now Contrast And Compare How The Greenwich "We Love Betty More Than The Kids" Citizen Finally Reported On The Survey In Town After Every Newspaper In Town Followed Citizen Journalist Bill Clark's Freedom Of Information Request And Reported The Bad Results On Their Front Pages And Home Pages.

Poll Points to Dissatisfaction in Schools

Anne W. Semmes

Article Last Updated: 10/10/2008 10:05:21 AM EDT

....."It was quite a big drop," said Dr. Betty Sternberg, superintendent of schools. Sternberg, who took up her post prior to the administering of the 2006 Harris Poll, revealed the survey findings in a press conference held before last Thursday's regular meeting of the Board of Education. With her to explain the findings was John Curtin, assistant superintendent of research and evaluation.....

Sternberg called the poll a "courageous undertaking" by the Board of Education. "Its better to know what people are thinking, than not," she said.

Only two other districts in the state administered the survey, which carried a price tag of $22,000, a factor, no doubt, in that only 200 districts nationwide employ it.

"We see in the results overall satisfaction is a concern particularly with adults," Sternberg said. She called the results "disappointing but not surprising." ...... blah ..... blah ... Blah ....

Please Note That....

Betty Sternberg's Flurry Of Panicked Board Of Education Press Releases And An Unprecedented Emergency Press Conference That Was Held Before The Last BOE Meeting Was In Response To Bill Clark's Freedom Of Information Request And His Blog Post.

But Greenwich Mainstream Reporters Are Soooooooooo Much Better Than Bloggers And Citizen Journalists --- Yeah right.

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