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Old 12-17-2012, 04:25 PM
 
Location: Metro Atlanta, GA
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DeKalb school district in

It's time to clean house in the DeKalb School Board!!
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Old 12-17-2012, 04:40 PM
 
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What a shocker.
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Old 12-17-2012, 04:54 PM
 
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$12 million spent on text books and no one knows where they went (certainly not to the kids). That whole corrupt board should be fired, pronto.
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Old 12-17-2012, 06:20 PM
 
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$12 million spent on text books and no one knows where they went (certainly not to the kids). That whole corrupt board should be fired, pronto.
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Old 12-17-2012, 06:56 PM
 
Location: North Fulton
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Pathetic. I feel like this is deja vu and it is Clayton County around 2004 or so.
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Old 12-17-2012, 07:10 PM
 
Location: Mableton, GA USA (NW Atlanta suburb, 4 miles OTP)
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Pathetic. I feel like this is deja vu and it is Clayton County around 2004 or so.
I find all of this to be fascinating. Why does Georgia have such huge and apparently unmanageable school districts? Does anyone know the history?
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Old 12-17-2012, 07:28 PM
 
Location: North Fulton
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I find all of this to be fascinating. Why does Georgia have such huge and apparently unmanageable school districts? Does anyone know the history?
I am not in the know about the accreditation issue, but here is what little I do know. In both these cases (Clayton and now Dekalb), there is a extremely dysfunctional school board elected by the residents of each county. The school board members in both cases have caused this issue for the county school systems. I think SACS itself is in Decatur so it is a bit easier it for it to visit school districts somewhat nearby.
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Old 12-17-2012, 08:06 PM
 
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I am not in the know about the accreditation issue, but here is what little I do know. In both these cases (Clayton and now Dekalb), there is a extremely dysfunctional school board elected by the residents of each county. The school board members in both cases have caused this issue for the county school systems. I think SACS itself is in Decatur so it is a bit easier it for it to visit school districts somewhat nearby.
SACS is in Alpharetta actually. They were in Decatur for many years, though.

Yes, DeKalb and Clayton both have dysfunctional school board. Both have trouble hiring qualified superintendents and the citizens don't often elect the strongest candidates for school board, if those candidates are even running.

The dynamics of DeKalb are a bit different because the most vocal parents and voters in S. DeKalb often have a stake in protecting the status quo. Their children are enrolled in schools of choice and any change to that might necessitate their return to the less desirable neighborhood schools. The level of complicity among the power base in DeKalb with the incompetent board members is frightening.

I want to add while the report is a good first step, the situation in DeKalb is far deeper and more serious than even probation indicates. Just last week, a board member's wife was on TV criticizing the current administration because of problems at the high school where she is PTA president. Mind you, her children are grown and she has no business still being involved, but she is.

Dysfunctional doesn't even begin to describe DeKalb.
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