A good spot call home (Knoxville, Morristown: house, lease, job)

[hiknapster]

Wow. It sounds like I need to expand my search.

It seems like a couple of coworkers said there were housing projects there? Is that right?

[JMT]

Originally Posted by hiknapster

Wow. It sounds like I need to expand my search.

It seems like a couple of coworkers said there were housing projects there? Is that right?

I don't remember seeing any, but I wouldn't be surprised if there are some. There are quite a few apartment complexes that cater to U.T. students in South Knoxville. Essentially, the farther away you get from downtown the fewer apartments you'll find, and the nicer the neighborhoods get.

Be sure to also check out Island Home, it's just a hop, skip and a jump away from downtown via James White Pkwy and is adjacent to the Tennessee School for the Deaf. It's one of my favorite neighborhoods in Knoxville.

[hiknapster]

I keep hearing about Island Home. It might be out of my price range, but I'm going to check it out. It might be nice to drive through, too!

And I'm going to expand that search to south Knoxville, too!

[tellicovillager]

The poster who recommended Anderson County schools to you has done you a great service. While you may be happy outside of Knoxville where you can pursue your hobbies, the school systems may not be as good. Common sense will tell you that the best teachers will be attracted to the larger markets. The smaller systems tend to be somewhat clannish, hiring people who were raised right there. Anderson county is an exception to that, because of Oak Ridge. The median IQ there meets or even exceeds that of Knoxville. Stay in Knox County or Anderson County. I live in Loudon County. I would not live here if I had children. 3 of the the teachers in this county have married their students. They were the honorable ones. The Powell system also has had its share of accusations of teacher misconduct. South Knoxville is great, yes, but if you meander into Sevier County the school system may not prepare your little ones for college. I served on the compliance team for accreditation for the southern association of colleges and schools(SACS) and the only way many of these schools keep the accredations they have is by repeatedly filing exclusions, which stay tied up in committee and are never acted on. If they were, they might lose their accreditation. They indulge themselves heavily in nepotism and cronyism at the expense of hiring outside talent, if it was available. The kids pay the price. Good luck to you. Do your homework, as you obviously are, and don't forget to look at the website maintained by the sherriff's department to look for sexual predators in your neighborhood(the one you are interested in). I have 2 on my street, and I live in an upscale neighborhood. My brother lives in Sevier County and has 13 in his neighborhood.

[SmokyMtnGal]

Originally Posted by hiknapster

I keep hearing about Island Home. It might be out of my price range, but I'm going to check it out. It might be nice to drive through, too!

And I'm going to expand that search to south Knoxville, too!

Island Home is a wonderful drive. I love South Knoxville and if I could have sold my home you would have found me there!

[hiknapster]

Originally Posted by SmokyMtnGal

Island Home is a wonderful drive. I love South Knoxville and if I could have sold my home you would have found me there!

Wow! That is definitely out of my price range!

To the person talking about the area school systems: LauraC posted this year's Oak Ridge appointments and I think that 95 percent of them were local, not that it matters much to me.

The sexual accusations. Now that is a subject that I am shocked that no one has brought up. Then again, we tend to take the rosey approach on this forum, don't we?

Is it me, or do we see a new case every week? Is it the area or is it all over the country, right now?

Go through the knoxnews archives and see.

[SmokyMtnGal]

The Texan and I were just discussing the teacher sex stuff recently also. We wondered why we were hearing about so many of these cases lately.

By the way Hik: We were looking at South Knoxville as we won't have to consider schools anymore. I am not sure I would move there with a school age child. One of my very best friends has her child in South Doyle; and she loves it. It is on some sort of list of schools that need to improve or something like that though.

[hiknapster]

I heard that about the schools, too.

The sex scandals are bizarre. There is a new teacher scandal every week, or month, it seems. But it could be national, which is even scarier.

[fireman649]

Thank you everyone for your helpful comments. I will look into anderson county some more as well. I'm just waiting to hear something from rural metro then I can realy decide what we will do. Keep thge good info coming.

[gemkeeper]

Originally Posted by hiknapster

I heard that about the schools, too.

The sex scandals are bizarre. There is a new teacher scandal every week, or month, it seems. But it could be national, which is even scarier.

I think that it is a nationwide problem and it is really troubling to be a part of the profession that seems to be downgrading itself.

Where are all of the safeguards that have always been in place for our kids? Do you think that this is a problem that has always been there, but not exposed (not meant as a pun)? I find that hard to believe myself.

I never heard of any of these crimes when I was teaching full time up to a few years ago. It just seems to be over the last 8 - 10 years that it has become so prevelant. I think it is tied into the whole package of decaying morals in our society. I cannot imagine what it does to families.