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Anonymous said...
"董事会的人都认为发信不应该，我也一样同意。可是你们该做事的时候干什么了？现在又是，这么多天了，周六的结果也不公布，学校这么多事情有待于解决，帐是否清楚也没个交待，却忙着找匿名信的人，他们到底在做什么?"

Seriously, there are sitll quite a lot of parents and teachers who care about the future of this School also wondering if the current board is getting the priority straight?!

It is very dispointing that the board has not providing the public the result of financial inquiry and audit. Why the board cannot take the steps needed to get the detail financial data from the admininistration is really beyond my compenhensation. The explanation provided in the board's last letter (6/1/2007) with subject line of "Clarifications -- Please read" sent to the NWCS community makes little sense, in my humble opinion. Can anyone with some legal, accounting or management background or experience, explained to us, why is the board, as a governing body of NWCS, cannot access the payroll data from the prinicipal? according the 6/1 letter, quote: "Due to privacy considerations, the Board and Zhou Lin agreed to a) obtain consent from each teacher to release his/her Payroll data: b) seek professional legal advice on how to deal with this issue. We will proceed according to the professional legal guidance." Can Board now tell us according to "professinal legal guidance", what information the board cannot obtain from the principal? Under the current by-law and financial guidance posted on the NWCS website, which provsion expressly exclude other board memebers to review the detail fianacial data from the school adminsatration as the 6/1 letter stated?, again quote, "3. Only Nancy Wong from the Board will have the privilege to view any Payroll related data in our Board and the data will be protected securely." we all know at the 6/9 public hearing, the principal stated that she refused to hand over the detailed books and records to treasurer Nancy wong because her parent was being paid by the school"; but why other board members cannot take over Nancy's duty in this particular instance? it really puzzled me. as a regular parent became aware of the school's current chao, I visited this board looking for some meaningful discussions and answers which address our school's urgent issues. I see some good positive ideas and proposals on how to improve our school, but have not seem anyone answer the questions/issued mentioned above. Can any of our talented parents and teachers out there please provide people like me some professional explanation and response on the questions above?

As for the principal hiring, if the Board, after careful consideration of relevant factors concluded that there is not well qualified person suitable for the job among existing canditates, please communicate with parents and teachers timely and take prompt steps to solicit more candidates from the public. Spending all the valuable time, energy and resources tracking down those anonymous emails, though in rare instance may be justified and warranted, would not solve urgent needs NWCS faces.

I am worry that the Board's lack of timely action(s) will risk The Board losing the whatever trust and patience the parents and teachers may still have. It would not be surprised to see the disappointed parents and teachers opted for other schools come next fall, if they sense that the leadership of the NWCS are not taking the right steps addressing the Schools urgent problems.

Again, I strongly urge the Board memebers take some time to review the wealth of informaton available online regarding the legal and ethical duties a No For Profit organization director should poss and ask himself or herself why you run for the board in the first place.

It is really sad to witness the wonderful NWCS community getting into current mess and feel helpless...

June 14, 2007 8:31 PM