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Updated 5PM 28 Sep 2011: Added preface and other changes to
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document by Etta Mims.
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I am attaching an 8 page document I compiled this week to show
that
CUEE and the Vote Yes supporters are not answering the questions being
asked of them. They are dancing around the topics but these supporters
are spending alot of money to put our children and the employees of
both schools in danger of 4-5 years minimum of changes that will be
detrimental to all concerned.
Another interesting note, if you go to the Vote Yes page, and
CUEE still doesn’t have a plan for improving education.
When asked for any concrete examples of education improving
because of school consolidation, not one person could come up
with one: not CUEE, not the Chamber, not their invited experts.
Their invited experts established that consolidation in Troup County
not only didn’t save money, it required a bond issue.
And it took four or five years of the hardest work they’d ever done,
even though they couldn’t give any evidence that it improved education.
It was like that on almost every point: the Chamber and CUEE either
couldn’t answer the simplest questions, or even more frequently
demolished their own case.
The last question asked to give an example of any company that
had declined to come in because of multiple school systems.
Not only could nobody give an example, but someone, I believe it was
Walter Hobgood, stood up at the podium and said when he was working
for a large company he had never encountered a case where they looked
at the number of school systems.
Early on Chamber Chair Tom Gooding went on at great length about
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That’s 400 MW of solar power in twenty 20 MW PV plants,
just across the state line in Gadsden County, Florida.
Plus ongoing jobs, expanded education, private sources of investment, and customers for the electricity.
As series of decisions, not unrelated to race, made by the “white fathers” of
the city of LaGrange, led the citizens of the city to vote their school system
out of existence and to become a part of the county system.
The quotes around “white fathers” are in the paper.
Hm, back when I first encountered CUEE, they were speaking to SCLC in Valdosta
late last year, Rusty Griffin among them, and the theme was desegregation.
They did not receive a warm welcome.
Funny how CUEE changed its tune to “unification” after that.
But the local “white fathers” are still insisting on making decisions
for all of us.
Among other things, she’s reposted a bunch of LAKE posts about animal
shelter issues.
That’s kosher, as long as there’s attribution, which she has included.
I applaud Susan for starting her own blog!
Tom Gooding, Chair of the Valdosta-Lowndes County Chamber of Commerce,
asked the school boards to do the Chamber’s homework.
He got no takers.
Reiterating the Chamber’s demand from its
letter of 9 September 2011,
Gooding asked VBOE superintendent Dr. Cason at the 20 September VBOE
forum to commit to meeting about what to do if the “unification”
referendum passes.
Dr. Cason said that should have happened two years ago, and
Now is not the appropriate time.
He said if the referendum passes, then the two school boards will sit down
together.
Dr. Cason didn’t say anything about inviting the Chamber or CUEE to such
meetings, since, after all, neither the Chamber or CUEE would have any legal
role.
Tom Gooding rebuffed @ VBOE 20 Sep 2011
education, referendum, consolidation, statement,
Forum at Valdosta Middle School, Valdosta Board of Education (VBOE),
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 20 September 2011.
Videos by George Boston Rhynes for bostongbr on YouTube.
Because it wasn’t about Troy Davis. Because witnesses didn’t
recant. Because the evidence was clear. Because hundreds of thousands
worldwide didn’t sign a petition for him.
Last night was the second of the three forums
the Valdosta Board of Education (VBOE) approved
along with its
statement opposing school consolidation.
George Rhynes reports there were 300 people there,
and he videoed everybody who stood up and spoke.
Videos of last night’s Valdosta school forum by George Rhynes
education, referendum, consolidation, statement,
Forum at Valdosta Middle School, Valdosta Board of Education (VBOE),
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 20 September 2011.
Videos by George Boston Rhynes for bostongbr on YouTube.
Videos of last night’s Valdosta school forum by George Rhynes
education, referendum, consolidation, statement,
Forum at Valdosta Middle School, Valdosta Board of Education (VBOE),
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 20 September 2011.
Videos by George Boston Rhynes for bostongbr on YouTube.
I and LAKE will wear it proudly.
The VDT doesn’t have one of these.
WCTV doesn’t have one; WALB doesn’t have one.
Only LAKE posts news so good, there’s a law against it!
So, our only clues are Commissioner Raines’ remarks that it had something
to do with videoing and photographing.
And his remarks that he believed that the Chairman could do it on his own,
but he’d like to make a motion for the Commission to approve it.
So we have to guess it had something to do with
Ashley Paulk’s outburst of the previous morning,
in which he
flattered me
by addressing me and only me by name,
even though there were at least two video cameras recording the meeting.
This is what he was going on about:
The County Commission wishes from this day forward that any filming be
done from the media area in the back corner of the room.
He didn’t say anything about still photography, or for that matter
about digital videoing, so I don’t know whether what he said
had anything to do with whatever it was that
Commissioner Raines moved Tuesday and the Commission approved.
Nor does anybody else know.
Mexican President Felipe Calderón seems to be experiencing a dramatic
change of mind regarding his war against drug cartels. Soon after a
drug gang set fire to a casino in Monterrey a few weeks ago killing
52 people,
Calderón told the media that ”If [the Americans] are
determined and resigned to consuming drugs, they should look for market
alternatives that annul the stratospheric profits of the criminals, or
establish clear points of access that are not the border with Mexico.”
Many people interpreted that as a veiled reference to drug legalization.
Hours after it took place, the president described it “as an abhorrent act
of terror and savagery” and later said the authors were “true terrorists”.
When you think about the billions or trillions the U.S. and other
countries spend against terrorists who cause less damage than the
Mexican drug cartels, he could be indicating that priorities are
misdirected.
that CUEE and the Vote Yes supporters are not answering the questions being asked of them. They are dancing around the topics but these supporters are spending alot of money to put our children and the employees of both schools in danger of 4-5 years minimum of changes that will be detrimental to all concerned.
