Did your public high school have a planetarium? Yeah, mine didn't either. But Southwest High School has a fully operational Spitz 512 Planetarium projector capable of displaying the positions in the sky of all the visible planets, the sun and the moon.
Or it did have that, anyway.
Bob Riddle, the former director of
Southwest's planetarium, remembers when KCMSD Superintendent John Covington blew a bunch of smoke
about upgrading the equipment last spring when he toured the planetarium with some other administrators. Covington explained to Riddle that he wanted to upgrade Southwest's to a digital system, which was what a planetarium at his previous post in the Pueblo, Colorado, school district had been equipped with.
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Ummm - he's messed up Lincoln Prep too, so we're in the same boat. When Covington started MU was sending six teachers to the district under a Fellows program along with technology we didn't have. Covington waited until August to cancel the program without consulting the teachers or admin.
Let me repeat. The teachers were coming at NO COST to the district and bringing things with them.
But Covington is now firing teachers to make room for Teach America - we have to pay a premium fee on each head count plus their salaries.
Anyone see logic in this math given we're cutting budgets again and 1,000 kids have left the district meaning less revenue from the state after the rolling average is completed?
Covington said he was keeping SWEC open because of the "asset" in the planetarium. Seems we all got played for suckers.
Funny thing when a school system throws away what other schools would love to have...
Dr. Covington has shown time and again that he does not have the best interest of the students at heart. He is by far one of the most disingenuous, dishonest people I have ever met. It is unconscionable what he has done to the SWECC students and the rest of the students who were relocated to Southwest, he needs to step down or be demoted to janitor.
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