The motion, which was made at Tuesday night’s Board meeting, was seconded by Board Trustee Harold Heath, but both men ultimately agreed to withdraw the proposal.
Drake’s motion drew numerous jeers from the audience, including one saying that Drake should resign, because the District’s troubles began with his election to the Board.
It was after remarks to the meeting by Rev. Roy Jeffcoat that the motion was withdrawn. Jeffcoat urged an end to “cut - throat”activities.
“You can’t make motions, because of emotions,” he said.
Heath and Drake said they appreciated Jeffcoat’s remarks.
“It just hit me right now that we are acting because of emotions,” Heath said. “It is human nature that when you lash out at me, I?am going to lash back out at you.”
Dale Stuckey, general counsel for the South Carolina Department of Education said that state law provides only two circumstances in which the Department could take over operation of a District.
If a district’s performance is classified as unsatisfactory, an external review team makes recommendations on how to improve the situation in the district. If those recommendations are not implemented within the given time frame, the District would appear before the State Board of Education and explain why it should not be classified as being in a state of emergency. At that point, the Board could vote to take over operations of the district.
The second scenario, provided for by state law, would require that a District that has been designated unsatisfactory and has not shown expected progress appear before the State Board of Education to show why it should not be declared as being in a state of emergency and thus subject to State Department takeover.
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