Nathan Warmack received an apology

**Mike n NC** · 11th January 06, 02:08 PM

Originally Posted by Freedomlover

'Fraid not. I read the agreement he signed with the School Board. He has agreed to take no further action.

Since when does retirement qualify as further action? I'm thinking that McClard may find it easier to just move on. Besides that, a retirement, while perhaps not forced, can be HIGHLY reccomended.

Mike

**Freedomlover** · 11th January 06, 02:19 PM

Originally Posted by Mike n NC

Since when does retirement qualify as further action? I'm thinking that McClard may find it easier to just move on. Besides that, a retirement, while perhaps not forced, can be HIGHLY reccomended.

Mike

Sorry, I mistook your reference to be toward Nathan getting a nice settlement. I agree completely that McClard needs to be elsewhere. My apologies.

**auld argonian** · 11th January 06, 02:31 PM

You know, I hate to see how many of you are dumping on this principal. Granted that the guy did ONE thing that cheesed you off...what if this guy is otherwise a great administrator and educator...would you want his yarbles on a stick knowing the sorry state of education in most school districts in this country? I've said it before: I know a lot of school administrators and this sort of thing is exactly what they say makes their jobs more difficult than is necessary...they spend more time "putting out fires", as one of them once said, than concentrating on EDUCATING the kids.

No matter what else this guy had done, he's going to be remembered for this. How'd you like it if no matter how much you did right all you were remembered for is the time you screwed up? I've heard all of this talk about how small minded the principal and school board are...all of this irrrational crap about "beaurocrats" and how they ruin life and the system...I expect that I'd be hard pressed to find anyone who actually knows any of these people and knows how they actually think or handle their responsibilities. Perhaps the Warmacks are the only folks who have had any previous contact with Mr. McLard and the school administration. If McLard and the school board didn't come out in the press and try to present "their side of the story", it's because they knew damn well that the best course of action open to them was to keep their mouths shut and seek a resolution to the issue, not to spout off and further muddy the waters. You can't blame them or villify them for that...it was the common sense thing for them to do and, in the end, a resolution was reached. Who said earlier on that the best victory was the one that was achieved with the fewest casualties on both sides?

Glad to see that the kid can wear his kilt but let's quit dumping on these people who have been designated as "the opposition"...it's unfair and unnecessary no matter how much "fun" it is. This "us versus them" stuff is really counterproductive. Let's see some of that civility that everyone complains is lacking in our society these days.

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**bikercelt1** · 11th January 06, 02:45 PM

Originally Posted by auld argonian

You know, I hate to see how many of you are dumping on this principal. Granted that the guy did ONE thing that cheesed you off...what if this guy is otherwise a great administrator and educator...would you want his yarbles on a stick knowing the sorry state of education in most school districts in this country?

You make a good point, we don't know anything from first hand experience, but Mr. McClard hasn't exactly given us any evidence that we're wrong either. Maybe he couldn't make any comment for legal reasons, and maybe he's been a model and inspirational administrator previously. But then again, he could have handled this with Nathan and his parents and we would have never heard about it. I too have known a lot of school administrators, some of whom were unfairly branded by a mistake or even some unfortunate circumstance beyond their control. I have no desire to castigate Mr. McClard further, but I figure that if he walks like a duck and looks like a duck and quacks like a duck he probably is a duck.

Jamie

**bubba** · 11th January 06, 03:17 PM

As soon as he referred to the kilt as dressing like a clown he earned the name jackass

**auld argonian** · 11th January 06, 03:50 PM

Originally Posted by bubba

As soon as he referred to the kilt as dressing like a clown he earned the name jackass

I can think of a lot of other things worse than "clown" that he might have said. Once again, none of us were there and we don't know what all the circumstances are. When I was in high school, the administrators had all they could do keeping the students from drinking and getting high at dances...they (the administrators) still have a responsibility to send the kids home in one piece and sometimes it isn't easy. Who knows what was going on in his mind...he's not responsible to any of us so we shouldn't expect an expalination. He obviously could have skipped the "clown" bit but he didn't - engage brain before opening mouth - how many times have any of us blurted out something that we should have kept to sourselves? He did apologize....was it not as abject an apology as you think was appropriate? Sorry, it's done and that's all you get.

He calls young Warmack a "clown", you call him a "jackass". Even?

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**MACKAY** · 11th January 06, 03:59 PM

Originally Posted by bikercelt1

You make a good point, we don't know anything from first hand experience, but Mr. McClard hasn't exactly given us any evidence that we're wrong either. Maybe he couldn't make any comment for legal reasons, and maybe he's been a model and inspirational administrator previously. But then again, he could have handled this with Nathan and his parents and we would have never heard about it. I too have known a lot of school administrators, some of whom were unfairly branded by a mistake or even some unfortunate circumstance beyond their control. I have no desire to castigate Mr. McClard further, but I figure that if he walks like a duck and looks like a duck and quacks like a duck he probably is a duck.

Jamie

Unfortunately perception is reality in a situation like this.

Brian