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03-15-2008, 05:23 PM
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Location: Brooklyn, NY
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It is official...Clayton County loses Accreditation!
Clayton County News | ajc.com
How could a county let this happen...Do we really not care about what is going on around us. Is the public school system really failing this bad. I am so disapointed. The kids are suffering. I am taking myself far out of Clayton at he end of the school year. I am glad I dont own, I feel sorry for the homeownwers too. 
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03-15-2008, 05:48 PM
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Location: NE ATL
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It is very discouraging when those in positions of leadership lack ethics and integrity.
From what I read the loss of accreditation was not due to inadequate student performance but the corrupt practices of some of the board members.
What are citizens to do?
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03-15-2008, 06:58 PM
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How about taking a more active role? This didn't happen overnight. People voted for these scumbags again and again. Maybe if all of the people who are so outraged now had been paying attention while this was going on there would have been changes.
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03-15-2008, 07:15 PM
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Location: NE ATL
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Yes--that is what citizens should do.
Thinking about the scandals of the past week, year--decade.
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03-15-2008, 08:54 PM
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What a disaster...
Such a shame for all these kids to fall behind - even further than they already may be... This is a pretty bad black eye on Atlanta metro.
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03-15-2008, 09:02 PM
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Not a member
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Halfway between Number 4 Privet Drive and Forks, WA
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So sorry to hear that. I live in Peach County and our school board has been dysfunctional for the past year or so (and our district was put on probation because of the BOE's behavior, not because of school's performance). We just recently got a new superintendant (Susan Clark from Henry County) and so far, she's put ours back on track fairly quickly. All they had to do was look at the mess Clayton County was going through to know how serious losing accreditation is...
I hope Clayton can get it back on track, it's a shame...
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03-16-2008, 08:05 AM
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The current leadership in Clayton has to go. I have found it so peculiar that the voters in Clayton have (over and over again) elected City of Atlanta teachers (who supposedly live in Clayton) to the school board there. It is hard to know, from a political campaign, what lies in a person's soul, but man the voters need to be more intuitive.
TAB is lucky, she hasn't been here long and isn't a homeowner. DeKalb and Fulton and Henry are bracing for a big influx of new kids.
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03-16-2008, 08:49 AM
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Put all counties surrounding Clayton County on the bracing for influx lists . I know that Fayette County is already is.
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03-16-2008, 10:30 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Decatur and St Simons Island, GA
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If I were a parent in Clayton County, I'd be freaking. However, if I were a parent I wouldn't have moved there in the first place. This situation was not created overnight.
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03-16-2008, 01:17 PM
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Slave to Passion
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Earth
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Quote:
Originally Posted by lastminutemom
The current leadership in Clayton has to go. I have found it so peculiar that the voters in Clayton have (over and over again) elected City of Atlanta teachers (who supposedly live in Clayton) to the school board there. It is hard to know, from a political campaign, what lies in a person's soul, but man the voters need to be more intuitive.
TAB is lucky, she hasn't been here long and isn't a homeowner. DeKalb and Fulton and Henry are bracing for a big influx of new kids.
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I apologize if this is a stupid question but I don't understand why there would be a huge influx to the other county's schools. Don't you have to live in a county to go to school there? Do the rules change when a school system loses its accreditation? |
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