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BOE selects Creel as superintendent

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Thursday, February 25. 2010

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The search for a new superintendent came to an end Tuesday night as the Barrow County Board of Education unanimously tapped Wanda Creel to direct the system.

Creel, an associate superintendent from the Houston County School District, will replace long-time superintendent Ron Saunders, who has announced his retirement. Saunders has agreed to stay with the system through the end of the school year to assist with the transition.

With her selection, Creel becomes the first female superintendent for Barrow County.

“It was a long process,” said BOE chairman Mark Still. “We were able to take the number of candidates down to four. All were very strong. Over the next few weeks we will start with the transition.”

The other finalists for the position were Eli Welch, principal of Westside Middle School; Thomas Van Soelen, assistant superintendent for instruction for Decatur City Schools and Marcia Clanton, an administrator for the Chatham County School System.

Creel has been offered a three-year contract with a base salary of $150,000. She is scheduled to begin work in Barrow April 1. Creel has worked the past two years as an associate superintendent for learning in the Houston County School System.

Prior to her work in Houston County, Creel worked as associated state superintendent for the Georgia Department of Education. She has a master’s and doctorate in educational leadership.

See the Feb. 24 edition of the Barrow Journal for more details regarding Creel's qualifications and her vision for Barrow County Schools.

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#1 Annie Omus on 02/24/10 at 10:08 AM [Reply]

Nice to see a fresh YOUNG face in this position. Wishing her the best as well as wishing for the best for the kids in BC schools with this change. I am glad the local finalist was not awarded this position.

#2 Keep Hope Alive on 02/24/10 at 04:46 PM [Reply]

I guess we shouldn't be surprised that a BOE with all Republicans overlooked the one African-American finalist. Is this 2010 or 1960? I wonder.

#2.1 Elmer Fudd on 02/24/10 at 08:18 PM [Reply]

Get real I personally know one of the board members and I promise you he isn't racially motivated. So get back on that broke down horse you came in on and ride back out.

#2.2 You Keep Dope Alive on 02/24/10 at 08:44 PM [Reply]

Luckily the superintendent was based on qualifications not skin color! There is hope after all..

#2.3 Annie Omus on 02/26/10 at 07:59 AM [Reply]

My reasoning for being happy he wasn't selected has nothing to do with his skin color. It has everything to do with the way he runs WMSchool. My opinion is he doesn't even like children. If you have had children at his school you would know what I am talking about.

#2.4 papa on 03/03/10 at 04:46 PM [Reply]

Does jesus see in color? No he died on the cross for all of us. Black,White,Red,Yellow what ever color.

#3 Vote for Change on 02/24/10 at 08:54 PM [Reply]

Well, this is still Barrow County in Georgia in the South. I can't tell you how many times I've heard racial slurs used against our President. Why should the fact our local school board did this surprise you?

#3.1 Jim on 02/25/10 at 11:52 AM [Reply]

I had to break it to you but statements such as "Hussein Obama isn't qualified to be the President" is NOT a racial slur.

And it IS 2010. It's time for minorities to stop playing the race card. Affirmative Action is outdated. Time to start earning your way based on ability and performance, not on ones race or class.

#4 Vote for Change on 02/25/10 at 03:12 PM [Reply]

If you think the only negative comments I've heard, or that people say, about our President is "he isn't qualified" then I have some ocean front property in Nebraska for you, cheap.

#4.1 Johnny on 02/25/10 at 07:07 PM [Reply]

Then let Obama sell it for you. He's good at getting gullible people to buy his BS.

#5 Who is Johnny? on 02/25/10 at 07:51 PM [Reply]

Speaking of guillble...something tells me you buy everything Fox News says hook, line and sinker. Or should I say stinker.

Great comments about it still being 1960 in some people's minds. I know having an African-American president is driving them crazy. Looks like our school board wanted to make sure Barrow didn't go that route.

#5.1 Is that all you have to fall back on! on 02/26/10 at 07:54 AM [Reply]

What is with the "driving THEM crazy". Let me say as a person raised in a mixed community and having friends of all heritages and color, since moving to Georgia I have never seen such open racism from blacks. I don't see any desire for equality, I see a desire for superiority. I read these comments, and it seems that all that matters to these writers is that a black candidate be voted for just because they are there. This is suppose to be a country of aspirations and having the chance to fullfill your dreams, but instead we are a country of winers and complainers that cry give me, give me, give me. Grow up and put your big boy or big girl britches on. I am a 49 year old white male, and I have achieved a good deal in my life in spite of that fact not because of it. Example: I was skipped over for promotion to Captain in the Air Force once because they had to promote a quote unquote Minority even though I scored higher on the exam and had more time in service. We will never be a united country as long as our skin color takes precedent over our citizenship!

#5.1.1 Sparr on 02/26/10 at 10:11 AM [Reply]

I have to wonder which is the greatest level of stupidity; voting for someone becuase of skin color or not voting for someone because of skin color. It is not only my privilege but my duty to educate myself on the candidates, so that I can use my vote for whom best meets the needs of our country. Anything less would be a travesty to the men and women who have fought and died to preserve our system.

#6 Brainwashed on 02/26/10 at 01:47 PM [Reply]

I would say most of the boe members are brainwashed by watching FOX NEWS. That's why they think it's OK to treat African American candidates in this fashion. When you hear bigotry and hate preached every day on FOX NEWS, what do you expect to happen? I know I've heard one boe member in particular saying how proud she was to be a "die-hard Republican." I had someone tell me the local Republican meetings are pretty much one color if you know what I mean.

#6.1 To Brainwashed... on 02/26/10 at 03:18 PM [Reply]

You are an idiot, and THAT has absolutely NOTHING to do with your race.

It has to do with your intellectual capacity, and your inability to look beyond more than 1 factor. I am African American and have lived in this community for my entire life, and it is a shame that foolish people like you are stuck in the past. The sixties were hard on us, but the longer we dwell on that, the longer we stand still (or even move backwards).

Please stop perpetuating ingnorance, or at the very least, shut up if you can't.

#6.2 Anonymous on 02/26/10 at 06:28 PM [Reply]

Check your history....The "Republicans" were the most instrumental in getting the Civil Rights Laws passed.....I've never heard anything on Fox that was "racist"...but MSNBC on the other hand refers to people such as "Tea Partiers" as those who wear hoods....It should never be about race.....just qualifications

#6.2.1 Anonymous on 02/26/10 at 09:56 PM [Reply]

Those Republicans are not the Republicans we have today. The parties flipped after the vote on the civil rights act.

#7 Look at the Board of Commissioners on 02/26/10 at 04:28 PM [Reply]

Especially to Johnny...Start by looking at your commissioners and see how racist and intolerant they are...this are the people that make life changing decisions for you and me in this county...

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