Charleston County School District, SC Straight Talk with the Superintendent, 9 Dec 2022

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From YouTube: Straight Talk with the Superintendent December 9, 2022 (you'll be "doubly" sad if you miss this...)

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A

uh Good afternoon CCSD, it's a pleasure to come to you this month or this week with the straight talk via video. This is my holiday message to everyone. I will not be doing a straight talk next week because of the holiday season, but I wanted to let you know that uh I appreciate the work that you've been doing. I, hope you're, able to spend time with family uh family is very important to me. I want to talk a little bit about my family and then give you a holiday message after that.

A

So uh on the screen here is a picture of my twin brother, Ronald and me being taught in the kindergarten class when we were five years old by our mother up in our Winnsboro South Carolina.

A

Now my brother Ron actually lives here in the area in Somerville, and sometimes he has challenges because he's out and about and someone from from the district will walk up to him, say hello, Mr, Kennedy thinking it's me the superintendent and he has a challenge in trying to make sure that he he explains to them that actually it's not me and the superintendent. It's him. The superintendent's brother, so Ron, you would like to say hello to uh folks here.

B

Well, good uh good holiday season to all of the Charleston County School District personnel and the students uh it's good to be with my brother. We grew up together and then went out of separate ways, and then we eventually ended up back together in a low country. Some years ago and there's Donald mentioned my wife and I are frequently out in the public, Arena and folks will come up to me and Confused me with my brother and I: try to explain to them that it's not my brother.

B

It's me that he I have a twin brother, and uh so uh I appreciate your doing this, so we can get this out into the public. In fact, one of our sisters mentioned to me a few months ago. I need to get a t-shirt that says that I am not the superintendent.

A

So I remember when, when we were both in the Air, Force and I was uh over in Taiwan and air base over there in the Air, Force Captain came up to me and said Hey Ron. How you doing uh and I could not convince him that it was uh not Ron. It was actually it's Ron's twin brother and, like you said, you've had experiences like that.

A

Also given that this is the holiday season um and I'm having to focus here on this straight talk on the families like talk, maybe just just maybe one one aspect of when we were growing up up in Winnsboro during Christmas time. I remembers that you might have from a family perspective.

B

So as kids and we, the the oldest of eight kids, whether as kids uh Christmas was a special time of the year for us, we would go out in the woods every Christmas cut down a Christmas tree, drag it back home and and help Mama uh and daddy uh decorate the Christmas tree. That's.

A

Great, so um back to CCSD staff. Again, as you can see, I found this important to Ron and me I'm sure I found this important to you all. It's the holiday season, I wish all of you all uh a Merry, Christmas, uh happy Hanukkah, happy Kwanzaa, a happy New Year, and thank you very much for the work that you've done uh during the school year so far and I wish you have a great break, a great break, you're able to relax with family and be safe and we'll see you in the new year.