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Submitted by Bush Tea

What the hell!

Bushie turned on the TV by accident this [yesterday] morning only to see Jeff Broomes and two of his students – the head girl and deputy head girl – on the DLP TV talking about a peer program at Parkinson School on Mornin’ Barbados.
Some Shiite gotta be wrong with Broomes. In this age of total and complete shiites in eddy kashun in Barbados this man keeps coming up with impressive ideas, selfless developmental concepts, and high quality initiatives that goes completely against the grain…. He gotta be looking for enemies…

The man turns up with two TOTALLY impressive young ladies on the TV, IMMACULATELY dressed, looking confident and relaxed, and totally on board with his leadership. Shiite man Jeff…. Wuh you think you at HC or wuh?

Then they go on to outline a program that is clearly designed to build camaraderie among students, teachers and parents, to address bullying, to improve academic results,  to improve the school’s image….and this program cost almost nothing.

This is madness!

Why does Broomes not get with the program, take a leaf from Sir Cave Hilary’s book and ask for about $60 M to be invested by government for some esoteric program involving new buildings in Bridgetown, hiring a dozen PhDs, and begging COW and SAGICOR for land?

Why does he not shut down the damn school and go on strike like the other teachers who want to get promoted to Chief Education Officer?  ….or send home all the children until their parents teach them some manners and how to dress properly…?

Clearly Broomes is out of step with education in Barbados. No wonder Froon appointed a Commission to move his ass from Alexandria, and no wonder some want him out of Parkinson…he is clearly a problem.

Those two girls ARE impressive however….shiite man, they gave Bushie goose pimples… Pity that they are Bajans and so destined to grow up to be brass bowls …once authorities finally succeed in saving them from Broome’s dangerous clutches…

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136 responses to “Jeff Broomes is a Glutton for Punishment”

  1. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Bushie<

    Jeff Broomes is a man who has a vision for Barbados. He realizes that most of our problems can be solved simply by an attitude change. He believes that the young people can be reached if one shows a genuine interest in them. He believes that if he works hard he can make a difference. So he sets about to do just that. He analyses, brainstorms and formulates a brilliant plan and, since he is genuinely interested in their welfare the children will jump on board. He then sets about putting the plan into action. The problem is that he is leaving most of his teachers behind. The reality is that not everyone can see what he sees, not everyone can do what he does, not everyone is secure enough not to feel slighted when they are bypassed or overlooked even for a good cause, not everyone is capable of looking past their own frame to see the bigger picture. His job is to make them see his vision and feel that they had a part in it from its inception. Jeff Broomes needs to see the smaller picture. Mission impossible? I don’t think so. But first Jeff Broomes needs to realize that though he doesn’t need to “reinvent himself” (his words, I believe) he may need to tweak his impatient nature and keep the train in the station long enough for his staff to get on board.

  2. lighthouse Avatar
    lighthouse

    Jeff is a genius teacher. Simply ask any student who benefitted from his instructions. You have to only do well because you do not want to disappoint him and the confidence he places in you. Students from the 70’s will relate this same position. He is student oriented. He once said ” Life is like an upside down triangle in relation to opportunities; little space and crowded at the bottom and less crowded with more opportunities as you rise to the top”. To the student he is a friend, teacher, confidant, provider, mentor and counselor. Many other teachers will do well when they adopt some of his strategies. This man was sent to be a teacher.

  3. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    Hi Donna
    Thanks for that vivid definition of mediocrity.

    What are you saying? …that the “problem” is that we happen to have someone with clear vision, high drive and excellent intentions operating in an eddy kational sea of brass bowls…
    ….and that the “solution” is for this visionary to “tone down” and adapt to the brass bowlery?

    Have you ANY idea how challenging it is for a ‘big-picture’ personality to adjust to the ‘smaller picture’?

    LOL
    ..even the disciples tried to get Jesus to make that transition to deal with some of the “pressing” issues facing Jews under Roman rule at the time…
    Of course THAT ended with them crucifying his donkey…. so perhaps that is your point.

    Personally, Bushie admires Broomes’ willingness to face the cross….

  4. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    Bush Tea is still smarting from the licking his idol took over the Alexandra fiasco so he now trying to reinvent him as some kind of visionary. Don’t they have similar programs in other schools? The difference is that the leaders in those schools are not publicity seekers who are always running to the Press turning into pretzels trying to pat themselves on the back.

    On another point about education I see that Mac Fingall managed to insult thousands of Bajans and other Black people throughout the world by saying that their “clear skin” is a result of their great grandmothers being raped. I used to have a lot of respect for Fingall but recently I have come to the conclusion that the man is a phucking dolt. Shame on Foundation School for not having the smarts to invite someone with a bit more intelligence and historical information about African people to speak at the launch of their “African History month”

  5. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Bushie,

    Yes, sir! I spend my life in constant frustration at small- minded people. And no, sir! I’m not saying he should tone down. I am saying that he must seek to understand the smaller minds that cannot see the bigger picture. He must understand their limitations and spend time expanding their minds. Failing that he must make them see what’s in it for them If that is the only frame within which they operate. There is actually a whole lot that’s in it for them but most people cannot see past the ends of their noses. That is the reality with which he must deal. A combative environment at school is not conducive to learning. His impatience with his teachers’ smallness is counterproductive. He must learn to play the hand he’s been dealt – aces, kings, queens, jacks, heck even the deuces if he wants to win the game. I hope and pray that he does win!

  6. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Sargeant

    Does he run to the press or does the press follow him?

  7. robert ross Avatar
    robert ross

    “Personally Bushie admires Broomes’ willingness to face the cross…”

    You bloody hypocrite..

  8. David Avatar
    David

    @Bush Tea

    Do you have time for the view which says that a leader by definition must demonstrate the ability to get those in their charge onboard?

  9. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Notwithstanding the judgement of Bushie. A judgement we generally tend to agree with. We are always ‘suspicious’ of any member of the local elites, any elites, or people who feel so disposed.

    And unlike Bushie, we could never understands how ‘leaders’ could sustainably do anything unless they have and represent the approval of the mass. You certainly can’t have wide approval with a self-centered outlook.

    But Bushie is somewhat of a dictator. Though the ethic of the dictator is needed, at times, we tend to believe the collective wisdom of the people is always superior to that of those who feel so divinely ‘inspired’.

    We are yet to see any measurably difference between Broomes and Beckles. To us, they are cut from the same cloth.

  10. DeeWord Avatar
    DeeWord

    @Sargeant February 4, 2015 at 8:45 AM #… I see that Mac Fingall managed to insult thousands … by saying that their “clear skin” is a result of their great grandmothers being raped——————-

    I didn’t read his speech so not sure what was the overall context of these statements but it’s fair to say that he would be included as one of those who had their grandmother raped also.

    That doesn’t take away the ‘insult’ but he is speaking about himself also so at least he is being open and honest with his barbs.

  11. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Oh oh! Senior moment again! Commas instead of full stops in my first submission. Sorry!

  12. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Sargeant February 4, 2015 at 8:45 AM

    Maybe he should been a bit more diplomatically sophisticated with his language by saying:
    ‘Generally, people with “brown” skin are the descendants of forced acts of miscegenation resulting from non-consensual sexual unions between young and attractive West African females and lustful European males in the outhouses on the plantations in the Caribbean and Americas.

    Would that have been acceptable to you, Sarge, to describe the ‘mass’ raping of West African girls in days of yore? Or do you believe these girls, like property in waiting, were betrothed to handsome white princes?

    Kyle Onstott and Lance Horner would have been proud of Mr. “Drum” McFingall for his forthright honesty.

  13. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Somebody enlighten me please!(pun intended) Is that not how it happened? How else did we get this colour?

  14. DeeWord Avatar
    DeeWord

    Broomes is a talented and smart man of that they can be no doubt but unless he can properly harness that talent in his role as a guide to his subordinates and “understand their limitations and spend time expanding their minds” as Donna sagely advises he becomes no more than another person of great potential.

    All of his great work with kids suggests that his true calling may be that as an instructor because his management acumen is not coming through in all these fights.

    As Donna alludes to “a combative environment at school is not conducive to learning” so I am unclear how Broomes’ overall plan can be working so well.

    This is a man who has been on the union side (principals group) if memory serves right and was a senior leader in the BCA for many years. So, beyond his studies he is well steeped in the practical do’s and don’t’s of management and leadership.

    With that in mind the alternative side to this debate is that for all practical purposes he is no longer willing “to play the hand he’s been dealt” and is intent on pushing the boundaries until he gets his way or he gets squeezed out completely.

    So as much as I agree with Donna and David’s point that “a leader by definition must demonstrate the ability to get those in their charge on-board” this leader I suspect has tried that but has hit that civil service wall of ‘status quo’.

    The Min of Ed and Chief should do all possible to help remove the obstacles if they accept that Jeff Broomes is a star in their team. Otherwise, Jeff should close out his pension obligations and go and start his own private school.

    With his background and experience he should certainly be able to tap in some of the foundations and aid groups (world-wide and local corporate) for financing with a well prepared proposal to start a center of excellence school in Barbados for those who come out of 11+ behind the curve.

    He could be the leader of a new chapter in education.

  15. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Deeword,

    Thank you for your kind words. True there is a wall of defence that goes up when people of vision try to change the existing system even for the good. Change makes people have to think about what they’re doing instead of operating on autopilot. It involves more work. Most people have to be convinced. It’s not only so in the civil service but everywhere. The leader has to show the players what’s in it for them, as I said. The true leader will succeed because there’s usually plenty in it for them even if it’s guilt free sleep at the end of a hard day’s rewarding work. There is job satisfaction and self-actualization and the appreciation of the students whose lives you are improving. There is being a part of a successful team. There is a better Barbados for them to enjoy, less criminals, less of their taxes spent on these criminals. I could go on and on. If he can’t sell that to them then maybe Mr. Broomes should do as you suggest and start his own school. Then he could deal his own hand and we all could come out winners!

  16. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    I have never met Broomes, but I have seen him teach on television years ago. His teaching was good and could be described as SOUND SOLID SEQUENTIAL SYSTEMATIC & SUBSTANTIAL
    He was good enough in his coaching boys in the north of the island in cricket with the effect that one of his charges made the Barbados team, and also the WINDIES ODI TEAM. This gave me great pleasure as I knew of the awful circumstances of the early months of this lad
    Clearly Broomes has a love for young people, and if supported, the ability to propel them to greatness.
    I don’t think that anything is wrong with Broomes, per se.It is unfortunate, though understandable that he has so many enemies. But in the contemporary Barbados, where morons abound in leadership in all spheres of endeavor to persistently come “up with impressive ideas, selfless developmental concepts, and high quality initiatives that goes completely against the grain,” IT IS WRONG TO BE RIGHT & AND IT IS WRONG TO BE FAR AHEAD OF ONES PEARS (not peers), because rotten pears is what they are.
    To turn up “with two TOTALLY impressive young ladies on the TV, IMMACULATELY dressed, looking confident and relaxed, and totally on board with his leadership” is indeed madness, in contemporary Barbados. No one today gives credit for high standards, and what used to be, and should still be the norm
    And then “to outline a program that is clearly designed to build camaraderie among students, teachers and parents, to address bullying, to improve academic results, to improve the school’s image….and this program cost almost nothing” is a NO NO, BECAUSE HIS PEARS AND OVERSEERS ARE INCAPABLE, INEPT, IGNORANT, INCOMPETENT. His performance is NO NO, BECAUSE HIS PEARS AND OVERSEERS ARE UNSECURE, UNINTERESTED, UNCARING ETC
    His performance is NO NO, BECAUSE HIS PEARS AND OVERSEERS ARE MEDIOCRE MENDICANTS

    It IS NOW WRONG TO BE RIGHT< AND RIGHT TO BE WRONG ! IT IS INDEED A PROBLEM “to have someone with clear vision, high drive and excellent intentions operating in an eddy kational sea of brass bowls… Mendicants and moronic muppets do indeed think that the “solution” is for this visionary to “tone down” and adapt to the brass bowlery? They do not care about “how challenging it is for a ‘big-picture’ personality to adjust to the ‘smaller picture’?”
    What Broome is experiencing today has been occurring in the civil service in Bim for at least 25-30 years. Why do you think that so many punks are permanent secretaries and Head of this and Head of that?
    If you are unable or wiling to approximate your labia orae to the adipose tissue overlying the glutei of those in power, a definite ploy is made to eliminate you. We ought not to be surprised that Barbados is now “run” by desperate depressing dunces.

    But JESUS IS COMING SOON!

  17. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Georgie Porgie,

    I hope you are not trying to place me in the moronic category as you would then have misunderstood my point entirely. I totally agree with you that in today’s world it is right to be wrong and it’s wrong to be right. I quite agree with you on all points. I preach this wherever I go. That’s how I got my label as the most miserable mad woman in St. _____!

  18. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Jesus is not coming soon. There is no Jesus, There has never been a Je——sus. If that is to be your central conclusion, ALL your reasoning is then wrong. Sounds pretty, but wrong!

  19. Hamilton Hill Avatar
    Hamilton Hill

    Can I sue my history teacher after all of these years Sarge? She told me exactly what Mac told his audience. A man named Strom Thurman admitted doing it before he died.

  20. David Avatar
    David

    Was it the late Errol Barrow who lived a philosophy that a leader cannot appear to be leaving the others too far behind.

  21. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    Thank you GP.
    As you know, Bushie tends to refrain from such strong language as you have been forced to use above ( 🙂 ) and hence would have been incapable of expressing such clear and precise thoughts as you did.
    Gracias.

    @ Donna
    Good thinking and logic. …but you are being a bit too classical in your approach. This business of leaders only being as effective as they are able to ‘bring others along’ is just the classical excuse used by brass bowls to excuse their incompetence and mediocrity at best.
    It is the same argument used by half-wits like Peter Wickham against programs that stream highly talented children and seek to maximize their talents. These people call for there to be a ‘mixing’ of the talents – leading to a culture of mediocrity and mendicancy.

    In nature, good apples plus bad apples equal ALL bad apples.

    Modern thinking understands that ‘success’ is about building on the talents that you have, not seeking to compromise to please the untalented. If people like Broomes waste their time waiting to ‘bring along’ the other jackasses in the system, then not only will the overall result be failure, but he himself would ALSO have failed in his own calling.

    What talented people like Broomes OWE to the rest of us is to shine their light brightly to illuminate the way forward for us. He will be judged by the extent to which he does that.
    WE will be judged by OUR own personal responses to these various lights.

    You are asking Broomes to spot his light downwards so as not to illuminate too far ahead…so that people like Sargeant could feel more comfortable…?
    He would be a failure to his own calling….

    @ Sargeant
    Shiite man…Bushie thought that you would have grown some common sense for the new year…. No surprise that you would dislike Broomes and Fingall – Two of Bushie’s heroes. Intelligent, self driven, self-confident leaders tend to piss off low-level, NCO, “follower”-types like you….
    Fingall is exactly correct in what he said, and furthermore, ALL THOSE CHILDREN ABOVE FORM 1 ALREADY KNEW THAT FACT…

    …clearly it was a shock for you when you found out for the first time by reading the speech…
    steupsss… Looka go long back and hibernate in the Canadian cold do….

  22. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    I am getting the impression that this,what is now being termed ” contractual sex’, between the planter class and the sweet looking black girl , only occurred during those dark days of slavery. Up to the 1960’s and 1970’s , many a mother working on a plantation would enticed , even accompany a daughter, after sundown to meet up with the plantation manager or overseer,just to get an extra days work in the fields. And certainly not , out of the woods yet, so to speak, was the young plantation maid, or as they were known then, servants, who lived on the edge of the plantation yard, next to a cane filed, in quarters not much bigger than a mobile chemical toilet of today, but big enough to accommodate the plantation Master when he came a-visiting in the middle of the night for his pound of flesh.
    Some of the visiting warships also contributed to many a cow colour.

  23. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    Donna February 4, 2015 at 1:06 PM #
    Georgie Porgie,

    I hope you are not trying to place me in the moronic category as you would then have misunderstood my point entirely. I totally agree with you that in today’s world it is right to be wrong and it’s wrong to be right. I quite agree with you on all points. I preach this wherever I go. That’s how I got my label as the most miserable mad woman in St. _____!

    I FULLY UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU SAID AND AGREE WITH YOU
    JUST HAVE NOT HAD THE TIME TO REsPOND TO WHAT YOU HAVE SAID

  24. ac Avatar
    ac

    jeff broomes punish enough people at alexander pay back is Son-of-bi-t-ch.remember BBE keeps his whacker well oil and fully “in”tune .i think one of BBE laws says “uh reap wuh uh sow”

  25. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ David
    What leader get what idiots on what board what??!!

    The situation is that most people are just like damn sheep whose “vision” is limited to the next blade of grass to be eaten.
    So when a “one-in-a-thousand” visionary sheep comes along in the herd, do you REALLY think that he has ANY chance of getting the thousands of idiots to see past that next blade of grass?
    The VERY best thing that super sheep can do is blaze a trail to greener pastures and fresh water. Typically, the sheeple will follow any such leader (because that is what sheep do…)

    In our case here in Barbados, we have very few sheep, and lots and lots of brass bowls, so rather than just follow leaders like Broomes who CLEARLY GET GOOD RESULTS, we listen to chronic failures like the same Peter Wickham, and other jokers who have NEVER accomplished anything meaningful themselves; DOES NOT QUESTION THE RESULTS of people like Broomes and Fingall; but then complain that these visionaries OWE it to us to share their vision….

    You ever see a brass bowl with a vision yet…?

    BTW…
    …which Errol Barrow are you talking about?
    …skipper, the Dipper was MUCH more igrunt, forward acting and tunnel-visioned than Broomes….. shiite man, Dipper was even more igrunt than Bushie den….
    ha ha ha

    Truth is David, that real leaders either get crucified, stabbed in the back, locked in jail, or die from a broken heart……and they are NOT judged on how much they have been able to advance society, but on the extent to which they have shone their light so that the brass bowls are forced to see how retarded they really are….

  26. ac Avatar
    ac

    i too am impressed with jeff broomes and the way he can articulate .however BBE articulates in his word to do unto others as u would want done to self and jeff broomes fails miserably in that caterogory .this might BBBE way of punishing jeff broomes by placing him in a similar enviroment like the one he had created at alexander for those teachers.Karma is a bi-tc-h

  27. David Avatar
    David

    @Bushie

    This leadership thing is the thing that volumes of books are made and still we don’t know what we think we know.

  28. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    About 12 years ago, some friends and our sons used to play some “geriatric” bat and ball in Glitter Bay.One evening Rawle Brancker was persuaded to drop in and have a game.

    Afterwards we sat on the grass and one of the cynical lads asked Rawle “Wunnah old fellas always talking about Sobers dis and Sobers dat. You mean to say he didnt have any faults?

    Rawle replied “of course he did! HIS MAIN FAULT WAs THAT HE DID NOT HAVE A CLUE AS TO HOW GOOD HE WAS AND HOW MUCH BETTER HE WAs THAN VERY ONE ELSE

    A few weeks later I asked Darnley Boxhill, and he gave me almost exactly the same answer.

    WHEN YOU ARE IN THE TOP DRAWER LIKE THAT WHERE EXCELENCE IS THE NORM, HOW CAN YOU UNDERSTAND THE STUTTERING STEPS OF MORONIC MENDICANTS? IT IS NOT EASY

    lighthouse February 4, 2015 at 8:13 AM # wrote
    To the student he is a friend, teacher, confidant, provider, mentor and counselor. Many other teachers will do well when they adopt some of his strategies. This man was sent to be a teacher.

    I AGREE WITH YOU 100% SIR
    HOWEVER MY EXPERIENCE WHEN I DID THE SAME AT A MEDICAL SCHOOL AT WHICH I TAUGHT IN JAMAICA IN 2011, I WAS CRITICIZED AS “beEing toO close and too INTERESTED IN THE STUDENTS.

  29. CHAUCER Avatar
    CHAUCER

    Jeff is a visionary and a good teacher; however , he lacks leadership and management skills.
    Mac will always be a stand up comic dressed in a three piece suit

  30. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    RE Truth is David, that real leaders either get crucified, stabbed in the back, locked in jail, or die from a broken heart……and they are NOT judged on how much they have been able to advance society, but on the extent to which they have shone their light so that the brass bowls are forced to see how retarded they really are….

    SOUND DOCTRINE THAT CAN NOT BE REFUTED

  31. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE WORLD TODAY IS THAT UNIVERSALLY THERE IS A DEARTH OF LEADERSHIP. THIS CAN NOT BE DENIED

    THE RESULT IS THAT THERE IS A BIG VOID——–AN EMPTY CHASM THAT CRIES OUT TO BE FILLED

    THIS VOID OF LEADERSHIP WILL SOON BE FILLED BY NO OTHER THAN ANTICHRIST!

    THE WORLD WILL NOT BELIEVE THE TRUTH BUT THEY WILL BELIEVE THE LIE!

    IT WILL BE HELL ON EARTH FOR SEVEN YEARS

    BUT THEN THE JUDGE OF ALL THE EARTH WILL COME AND RULE WITH A ROD OF IRON FOR 1000 YEARS.

    GUESS WHAT? AFTER SUCH A PERFECT REGIME THEY WILL REBEL

    THE ATTITUDE OF CONTEMPORARY CITIZENS TO ANY SEMBLANCE OF GOOD LEADERSHIP ONLY MIRRORS THE REBELLION IN THE HEARTS OF MEN.

    PACHA YOU CAN LIKE IT OR LUMP IT, BUT JESUS IS COMING SOON.

  32. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    David February 4, 2015 at 2:05 PM #
    @Bushie

    ”This leadership thing is the thing that volumes of books are made and still we don’t know what we think we know.”

    This maybe the truest thing you ever said!

    This leadership thing is Brassbowlery.

    Nobody leads this writer, nobody!

  33. David Avatar
    David

    @GP

    The true measure of a leader though is not based on being validated y the herd just finding a way to make better.

  34. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    DAVID
    LEADERSHIP IS BEST DONE BY EXAMPLE AND ABILITY
    FROM AGE 16-22 I LED THE CHOIR IN MY BAPTIST CHURCH.
    RULES WERE SET. IF YOU DIDNT ATTEND PRACTICE YOU COULD NOT SING
    I COULD SING ALL FOUR PARTS BECAUSE OF MY VOICE RANGE THEN, AND I WAS FOLLOWED WITH OUT DISSENT EVEN BY MANY OLDER TAN I WAS. BECAUSE OF MY EXAMPLE AND ABILITY AND BECAUSE I HAD A PLEASANT WAY OF ENCOURAGING THEM TO DO WELL

  35. ac Avatar
    ac

    The govt stepped in and saved broomes from futher destruction.however they could not save Broome from the plan that BBE had for him due inpart to his reckless and poor behaviour he exhibited on his workers.Bbe does not judge us on how intelligent our abilities are but the way we treat ourfellowman that is with love and respect .Again broomes failed that is why he is punished .Sow the wind reap the whirlwind

  36. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    LOL @Pacha
    …so boss, because you happen to be a rebel …nullifies the validity of leadership?

    This is only for you ….because you are so learned….. 🙂
    In organizational theory, there are a number of key values that determine success or failure. As you known the dynamics of an organization is extremely complex, in fact the study of organizational theory remains one of the last mysteries to be dissected by researchers.
    Broadly however, LEADERSHIP is undisputed among those functions that are known to be indispensable for organizational success.

    Leadership is broadly the ability to visualize an organizational future, to actualize that vision AND, to inspire and motivate others who may not even see your vision, to trust you enough to follow you.
    Leaders may not be the ‘bosses’, and indeed, those in charge – may not be the leaders…THAT is when trouble REALLY starts…

    NO organization can succeed without effective leadership to co-ordinate the various players that make up the entity. The individual components will all march off in their individual pursuits, and chaos reigns….. like Barbados…. or a body with a bad head (brain) (…think AC…!!)

    BTW Pacha…
    GP is right about the return of the boss bush man.

    You could talk all the shiite you like..
    It is as sure as day follows night…

    And when the BBE plan all comes down…
    you will kick yourself for getting it so wrong…

  37. CHAUCER Avatar
    CHAUCER

    Bushie

    Leadership … to inspire and motivate others … to trust you enough to follow you. You need to teach Jeff about leadership and management, hope he a good student

  38. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    @ Bushie

    We are not only rebels we are also anarchists. And there is no difference in our minds to what passes for ‘leadership’ in this world and the others. They are all schema to mislead – pun intended. Where has this leadership ethos gotten us thus far? Is this not what you constantly complain about?

    Bushie you are best advised not to try to school this writer on leadership. Our views on this topic did not come by happenstance. We studied, lectured, wrote academic papers and conducted seminars to senior managers of global scale companies on this subject. We know all the brassbowlery and can talk the shite well, but have come to not believe any of it. And must confess there are no ‘mysteries’ about this subject. We understand all the issues involved. Still, there are massive systemic failures.

    There are many definitions of ‘leadership’. Implicit in your definition, and most definitions, is a singularity of vision. The need for some messianic visionary either here or in the other place. We are convince that a collective vision is achievable and that your classist division of labour is best located in a begone era. We believe that even your maximum leader himself talks about ‘we’, in relation to your creation mythology etc?

    But we can have effective leadership within a paradigm where your hierarchical division of labour does not exist.

    It is amazing that you can see so much but would not see that anarchy, as an organizational model, does not equate to chaos. In any event current model have not been able to prevent chaos LOL.

  39. Observing Avatar
    Observing

    @Bushie
    Man you disappointing me with these one sided rose coloured Broomes spectacles. You and he pitch marbles that he can’t do nutten wrong for you???

    Up til now you haven’t addressed Donna’s core premise (and Dee Word) besides labeling it mediocrity. Were the teachers at Parkinson mediocre before Broomes came???

    As for David’s unbelievably valid questions, that’s another story.

    One basic question to start so that I don’t debate from the wrong perspective.

    Should we judge a leader by how he/she is by themselves as an individual with characteristics (visionary, talented blah blah blah)?? or, by additionally how they advance the system/circumstances in and people which they lead (i.e. get the brass bowls / sheeple to move towards better tomorrows)?

    @GP
    “and they are NOT judged on how much they have been able to advance society, but on the extent to which they have shone their light so that the brass bowls are forced to see how retarded they really are”

    Brass bowls by their very nature NEVER see how retarded they really are, light or no light.

    And just in case I get crucify as one sided, let me state my position which remains the same as during the Alexandra saga.
    1. Broomes is an EXCELLENT teacher. Leader is another story.
    2. Broomes has EXCELLENT ideas. Executing them as a team is another story
    3. Broomes is blessed with WONDERFUL vision. Translating it to efficient action is another story.
    4. Broomes is a KIND and GOOD man at heart with the BEST interests of children as his guide…but… Leadership requires us to transmit those qualities in those we lead so we’re not on the island by ourselves.

    “A leader without any followers is a guy going for a walk”

    Enough said… for now.

    Great posts Donna. Dee Word…sound as always.

    Just Observing.

  40. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    Well Chaucer,
    …despite your impressive name we know that you are not an English teacher.

    Where did Bushie say that Broomes was a great leader? …or even that he needed to learn to be one?
    …said he is offtrack wrt the status quo, and must be a glutton for punishment…

    However….
    The man brought two highly impressive Parkinson students to DLP-TV and outlined a program that impressed the bushman…..
    NOT MUCH BOUT HERE MANAGES TO IMPRESS BUSHIE NOWADAYS….

    He is clearly an effective teacher who gets the kind of results WITH STUDENTS that must surely be the sine qua non of success in teaching….

    Why should Broomes be a great leader?
    Name anyone around here who is…..!!!

  41. Observing Avatar
    Observing

    @Bushie

    But have to admit that you are right

    He IS a huge glutton for punishment. lol.

  42. Artaxerxes Avatar
    Artaxerxes

    Bushie, you could always identify a “brass bowl” by the comments they make. And I note the usual “brass bowls” are spending their time on this topic, just to throw some licks in Jeff Broomes. Under these circumstances, there are no references to “truth” or “facts” nor do they contribute anything of substance.

  43. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ Observing
    Wait bozie… it took this to flush you out from making money…?

    LOL …you disappointed with Bushie? …so you put up a straw man about “leadership”, pelt nuff big rocks at um …. and then claim disappointment with Bushie?

    Who the hell said anything about “Leadership” and Broomes?…. Bushie?

    You said exactly the same as did Bushie, your english is just much better.

    Broomes is an EXCELLENT teacher.
    Broomes has EXCELLENT ideas.
    Broomes is blessed with WONDERFUL vision.
    Broomes is a KIND and GOOD man at heart with the BEST interests of children as his guide

    Skippa…
    No single person, even with the best intentions, in a sea of brassbowlery – can make any serious difference unless he is nuclear armed….
    Even Jesus did not bother to try…

    Apology accepted…..

  44. old onion bags Avatar
    old onion bags

    Wait Bushie what cause you to put Broomey in the limelight again….D sea-cat woman right?…..U and Jeff cut from D same cloth ya ent know…Nuff rum, nuff souse…..LOL

  45. Observing Avatar
    Observing

    @Bushie

    It’s only after I hit “post comment” that I realised that you DID NOT mention leadership. lol. Well done comrade!!! The debate is over and I take back everything that I said. Even if Donna and Dee Word were right :p

    Your weed whacker is good at flushing out people. Should use it more often (y)

    Observing

  46. DeeWord Avatar
    DeeWord

    Bushie you are truly a formidable guy. Several posts back I said that I would want you to be my communications man in any business adventure cause you are just too smooth and can sway the proverbial Eskimo to buy ice.

    So, with that said I will check back tonight for your enlightened response to the following apparent contradictions.

    “Where did Bushie say that Broomes was a great leader? …or even that he needed to learn to be one?…. “Who the hell said anything about “Leadership” and Broomes?…. Bushie?”

    As compared to:

    “The man turns up with two TOTALLY impressive young ladies on the TV, IMMACULATELY dressed, looking confident and relaxed, and totally on board with his leadership”

    I suspect most of us interpreted that last section “totally on board with his leadership” to be a key aspect of your piece as you were highlighting that the man has been an effective agent for change in education and listed his heady accomplishments with pupils while at the helm of two institutions .

    Not trying to play semantics sir. Just drawing to your attention that you certainly highlighted Broomes’ leadership qualities directly and indirectly in your comments.

    But all good, jut another brass-bowl type, inane observation on my part.

  47. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ Onions
    Wait Bushie what cause you to put Broomey in the limelight again
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    See if you can get your friend AC to arrange for that segment of Mornin’ Barbados (FEB 3) to be repeated on DLP TV. Have a look at those two school girls and see if you are not impressed.
    Bushie is quick to rev up the whacker…. but shiite man, when the bushman see a couple of proper roses sticking out from the lotta thorns he have to cut the engine and reach for the watering can…. 🙂

    @ Pacha
    You have some really strange ideas for a person as well read as you obviously are…
    You said, inter alia, “…We know all the brassbowlery and can talk the shite well, but have come to not believe any of it. And must confess there are no ‘mysteries’ about this subject. We understand all the issues involved. Still, there are massive systemic failures….”
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    How could you think that there are no mysteries when you admit it is brassbowlery? How do you know that the truth about organizational dynamics is not something out there awaiting true disclosure? (…a mystery?)

    How can you “understand all the issues involved” when you “have come not to believe ANY of it?”

    …and don’t the continued existence of massive systemic failures, (despite all the research done so far)… suggest that the research is incomplete? (thus Bushies suggestion that it remains a mystery to be resolved)

    In your haste to justify your refusal to recognize an overall designer and builder of life on earth, you take some rash and illogical positions.

    If Bushie were to suggest to you that the Deep Water Harbour could conceivably have evolved over millions of years to its present state – you would want to point the Bushman to Jenkins.
    Yet you would wish to suggest that everything that we can see around us, much more complex and interconnected than the DWH, could somehow have come about without an overall designer and creator.

    ….now you want to suggest that ” anarchy, as an organizational model, does not equate to chaos…”

    Ha ha Ha …Boss, anarchy is synonymous with lawlessness and chaos… while leadership leads to lawfulness, order and co-ordination.

  48. David Avatar
    David

    Didn’t Uncle Jeff have problems executing on the BWA Board as well? A leader must add value to the space he or she occupies and it CANNOT be done without others.

  49. ac Avatar
    ac

    bush tea don’t worry about my brain, i got enough brain to know when you trying to make silk out of a sows ear,

    sorry bro you semantics and hyperbole tactics attempting to remove dust with a finger nail would only “work” with those minds either or// on the verge of senility.

  50. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ DeeWord

    It is the the two students who were “totally on board with his leadership”….and essentially said as much.

    LOL …poor Bush grammar..

    “The man turns up with two TOTALLY impressive young ladies on the TV, (WHO WERE) IMMACULATELY dressed, looking confident and relaxed, and totally on board with his leadership”

    The subject is NOT the man who turns up, …but the two immaculately dressed young ladies, looking relaxed and confident AND totally on board with his leadership.

    Trust you to dissect bushie’s poor grammar….. 🙂

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