Good question:
“Are you willing to put your children’s education at stake
because somebody has promised you something they can’t deliver?
I for one am not willing.”
Here’s
the video:
Your children’s education at stake —Sam Allen, FVCS, 7 July 2011
No school consolidation,
Press Conference, Friends of Valdosta City Schools (FVCS),
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 7 July 2011.
Videos by John S. Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.
-jsq
Video from the NAACP Criminal Justice Summit in Chicago,
thanks to LEAP:
We cannot duck this issue.
I couldn’t duck it any more.
I couldn’t sleep, if I wasn’t out advocating
getting rid of the War on Drugs.
You can’t get to end the War on Drugs
that the whole bureaucratic
institution of the United States of America
has declared, unless you end prohibtion.
They couldn’t do it with alcohol, and you can’t do it with drugs.
—Alice Huffman, President, California NAACP
Here’s the video:
Sam Allen of Friends of Valdosta City Schools (FVCS) tells us
what CUEE didn’t.
“You can read the billboards, you can look at the pretty brochures,
but that’s all your going to get.”
So what haven’t we been told?
Friends of Valdosta City Schoolds (FVCS) had a table at the 100 Black Men BBQ, Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia.
Their No School Consolidation signs now have both a Viking and a Wildcat paw on them, and they have Viking stickers and Wildcat stickers.
FVCS @ 100 Black Men BBQ, Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia,
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.
Their consolidating CUEE competition was nowhere to be seen.
-jsq
In case you thought prison slave labor
didn’t affect you, watch Mike Elk on Democracy Now today,
New Exposé Tracks ALEC-Private Prison Industry Effort to Replace Unionized Workers with Prison Labor:
“more than 14 million pounds of beef infected with rat feces
processed by inmates were not recalled, in order to avoid drawing
attention to how many products are made by prison labor.”
Is this what you want for yourself and your children?
If not, it’s time to stop
ALEC crafting state laws to lock people up and then exploit them as slave labor.
We can start by not accepting a private prison in Lowndes County, Georgia.
Spend those tax dollars on rehabilitation and education instead.
Update 9:35 AM 6 Aug 2011: Fixed the links to the Democracy Now story. Thanks for catching that, Barbara!
Here’s a bonus link to the story in The Nation.
-jsq
PS: This post owed to Cheryl Ann Fillekes.
Valdosta school board member Annie Fisher advocated saying no to school unification
and instead finding out how to desegregate the schools and improve education for everyone.
She already suggested
some things to do.
Here’s
the video:
Put energy into things that are right for all children —Annie Fisher @ FVCS 7 July 2011
No school consolidation,
Press Conference, Friends of Valdosta City Schools (FVCS),
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 7 July 2011.
Videos by John S. Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.
-jsq
Unified cheating in
Albany:
The Herald learned that Murfree and Coleman had been invited by Bowers,
who is heading an investigation to determine whether there had been
cheating on the DCSS’s 2009 Criterion-Referenced Competency Test exams.
and
Atlanta:
An investigative panel has recommended that 109 principals, assistant
principals, school-based testing coordinators and teachers face further
scrutiny or sanctions after it found evidence of suspected cheating at
58 Atlanta Public Schools.
Atlanta and Albany have unified school systems, and they have cheating scandals.
Coincidence? I think not.
-jsq
John Gates, director at the Humane Society of Lowndes County,
noted that county law enforcement doesn’t seem to know much
about animal laws and regulations, in addition to the problems at the
shelter.
This part caused Joe Pritchard’s head to jerk back:
I think our animals in the community deserves the same rights
as my children, myself, or your animals.
If your animal is in the shelter, it should receive the same
courtesy that you would give it at home.
Chairman Paulk clarified:
If you did certify the ACOs,
they’d still have to be attached to an agency, which means they’d
have to be attached to the Sheriff’s office.
I think it’s interesting that he’s listening to the idea.
Here’s
the video:
Valdosta school board member Annie Fisher
pointed out CUEE members sent their chidren to private schools
and now they’re meddling in public education.
She listed some real issues, such as
Valdosta city schools remain segregated,
focussing on tests just to meet AYP,
and we need
to remove students from the prison to the classroom.
“How can we equally educate each child?”
Yes, let’s forget “unification” and focus on that.
Here’s
the video:
The members of the CUEE, they send their children to private schools —Annie Fisher
No school consolidation,
Press Conference, Friends of Valdosta City Schools (FVCS),
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 7 July 2011.
Videos by John S. Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.
You thought maybe I made up the three points I proposed to improve education?
Nope, unlike CUEE, I’ve been paying attention.
-jsq
Received today on
When officials act like they are hiding something, they usually are. -jsq
I commend the VDT for its persistence in pursuing requests for information
on many subjects. However, as John mentioned some subjects such as CUEE
don’t seem to elicit the same due diligence in pursuing true facts. The
VDT continues to support CUEE agendas even though it has been well
established that the CUEE committee did not follow true priority of law
when it ignored the
1983 GA constitutional law requiring all involved
systems in a consolidation action be allowed to vote. CUEE still persists
in following a 1926 statute that says only city voters are allowed to vote
& the VDT continues to support their efforts. It seems to me a failure to
acurately report all facts exists for both the CUEE committee members &
the VDT staff.
Since a costly voter referendum action has been activated
& supported by both entities in spite of & in the face of priority of
law objections it is my opinion a crime or crimes have been perpetuated
upon the citizens of Lowndes Co. & a Grand Jury investigation should be
convened to address these criminal actions.-Barbara Stratton
