but it is all politicaly correct. So some people can keep their schools light and then they offer up people in the low dollar areas to keep the appearance of being poliitically correct.

You're right, there are no PTC schools. But given the tax dollars that come from here, there should be. PTC could support its own school system if it came to that.

The needs of the whole county, not just one city...Do I need to mention tax dollars again? How absurd to think our children should be able to attend the school down the road like everyone else's kids do. I must have overlooked the clause in my property deed that says, "Your children will be used as resources to boost test scores and smooth demographic data at any school in the county at any time." My mistake.

Sounds like you need to go back to school.

Someone recently posted that on average it costs about $7,000/child/year in Fayette county.

FCBoE Financial Report

Just what do you think you are paying in yearly taxes?

I am sure the school board will keep coddling your little butt and those of your children at the expense of the people of Flatt Rock and Sandy Creek. Flatt Rock is having most of their problems because they are absorbing the kids from the Clayton and Fulton border area and will continue to, so you can have your all white schools.

The FCBOE is NOT interested in having "all white" schools. Diversity in schools is a good thing when it's done for the right reasons, and the school administrators think about it as an opportunity for learning and enlightenment as opposed to an opening for divisiveness. Besides, skin color and values are independent. I don't care what color you are as long as you obey the law and treat other people with a modicum of decency and respect. How can you make snotty remarks about "all white schools" and then blame the problem at Flat Rock (1 T) and Sandy Creek on the kids from the Clayton and Fulton border areas?

how bout, "..Do I need to mention tax dollars again? How absurd to think our children should be able to attend the school down the road like everyone else's kids do."
That reads to me like you think you pay so much money that your kids shouldn't have to attend the school down the road. That is what you are saying. If you want diversity, come to FR and SC...we have YOUR diversity, that is the whole problem. It is a never ending cycle, whites move out, black from all over the county put in to come here and then you give us the kids from the north Clayton border with Fayette and what do you think we have? These are not kids from our neighborhoods. Why would they take the kids from the apts in PTC and not the other side. Because you are coddled. You can talk about diversity all you want, you just like it better when it isn't your back yard! How bout you take the kids from North Fayette-Clayton line. They are bussing them way out of their area anyway. And when you are at it, take back your people in those appartments! Then you would be singing a different tune. You are a hypocrite! Put your "money" and kids, where your mouth is!

I live on that side of 74! Those apartments are in my backyard! Sending those kids to Flat Rock and Sandy Creek is just as moronic as sending my kids there. Booth and McIntosh are closer to our homes than either Flat Rock or Sandy Creek. It's just as stupid to bus kids from the northeastern corner of the county (I guess you think those kids band together with the apartment kids to cause all the problems?) to Flat Rock and Sandy Creek when FCMS and FCHS are geographically closer to them. Coddled? Please. Our school boundaries have changed 3 times in the past 7 years, and they're about to change again.

Here are the most recent statistics that I could find for my neighborhood schools:
Peachtree City Elementary - 59% white
Booth Middle - 79% white
McIntosh High - 81% white

Sure the percentages go up as you increase in grade levels, but we CHOSE to go to PCES, the most diverse of the three, and absolutely love it!

I don't think I have an unreasonable expectation that my children attend the schools located in our community. As a PTC resident, I hardly consider Tyrone my community. We chose to live here, and a large part of that decision was the schools. I don't think my children should be gerrymandered into Tyrone schools because the FCBOE and the parents of that community have allowed a mess to be made there. We could have purchased a house anywhere, including Southampton in Tyrone. We chose the heart of Peachtree City, and I will be furious if my kids are bussed to Tyrone, especially since our community schools are a short golf cart trip away. Don't drag me into a mess I played no part in making!

Oh, P.S.... We live near that "step-child" of PTC, Wynnmeade, and have NO problem with that neighborhood. Some enlightened (~cough, cough~) bloggers here have suggested that I probably need to carry a handgun to protect myself from Wynnmeade. And ~gasp~ my children go to school and play with the children from Wynnmeade. Guess what - no problems! It's not all about the color of people's skin or the cost of their homes (or if they rent them). It's about being a community and instilling values in your children. Bringing more "rich kids" to FRMS & SCHS won't fix the problems there. The community needs to fix itself first!

Obviously you have totally missed the point here. Seems to me that people in this community are calling for equity in dealing with the children and aren't getting it. The fact that they want it changed is what's brought it to the forefront. Most kids in Tyrone are as "rich" as PTC kids nowdays anyway. Money isn't the issue at all. I do agree that if you bought your home in PTC limits you should be able to have your kids go to a school there and I will be very surprised if anyone at the BOE thinks otherwise.

He didn't say anything at all about it being about "money". Actually, he stated quite the opposite. Reread his/her post. It is about the community. If you have a community that does not care, nothing is going to change. The "community" has to pull together as a whole to be able to get things accomplished. One person cannot do it.

A story to share regarding FRMS from "personal" experience. Our family decided that we would make the move from Coweta Co. Schools to Fayette Co. Schools simply because they were supposed to offer a "better & higher" education. The education of our children is our highest priority. We searched & decided on a nice home in Tyrone. Our oldest attended FRMS. It was all we could do to get through the school year of 04-05 at that school. It was a nightmare! Our child was beaten & bullied repeatedly. (Yes, he is white & so are we.) We raise our children on the principle that everyone is equal, regardless of the color of their skin. His father & I repeatedly made trips to the Principal & Asst Principal's offices to complain & get everything worked out. Nonetheless, they did nothing. I still have pictures of our child's injuries that were sustained during this particular school year. To make matters worse, he had a black female teacher that repeatedly graded his papers incorrectly & could not spell. I also still have all of this information on hand. These items were also taken to FRMS & brought to their attention, guess what? They did nothing! Moral to this story, we moved back to Coweta Co. Schools. If Fayette offers "higher & better" education schools, it certainly isn't that way at FRMS! I would die before I would send my child back to that particular school district! Everyone who is made to send their children to that school district should be VERY concerned. You haven't experienced anything until you have to actually send your child there! I tell & show everyone what we went through with FRMS when I hear they are thinking about moving into that school district. The issue is what is best for our children, not white vs. black. Until they make administrative changes in that school district, the children that go there will end up suffering & being damaged by the ones in power. Obviously, there are racial issues among the staff. If the staff isn't changed, how can you expect the children to change? They learn from their superiors. If you are one who might have to attend that district, BEWARE...a nightmare is about to begin for you!

Grades papers? No wonder we are last in the nation.

If your child has bruises because of a beating this is a matter for the Sheriff's Dept. and a good attorney. This is an assault. It is illegal.

I applaud you for bringing it to the school administrations attention. In Fayette County that is a waste of your time.

After you get done with the kid and it's parents in criminal court, you can go after them in civil court for damages. Especially if the kid beat up your kid because he is white.

PARENTS IN FAYETTE YOUR KIDS DO NOT HAVE TO PUT UP WITH THIS!! STOP TAKING IT AND START FIGHTING!!

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Laying the problems at the people of Tyrone's door is wrong. The kids that go to FRM and Sandy Creek are not all from our area. We get the apartments in Peachtree city on the right side of 74 all the way to Wisdom Rd on the left, and then we get the kids from the extreme North eastern side next to Clayton county! Those are NOT our communities! You keep saying you don't want Peachtree city going to SC and FRM, but you have no trouble sending us the kids out of the apartments there do you? Or, the kids from the other side of the county that borders Clayton! That is how your schools stay white and we are the 'token'. Also, as it has been stated on here, when a white family moves out because of the schools, it leaves an opening. Sandy Creek is known as a macho school to the blacks, because there is now an opening created, the blacks of the county, ask to, and are allowed to go to these schools, making them more black than the community around SC and FRM and also, making your schools whiter!

Black logo shirts are ok and anythng that has Dixie on it is wrong, a school board that doesn't care, and then all the machos from across the county, and see how well your kids could cope! You wait till after the new boundaries, despite the high price of gas, we will STILL have the apartment kids and the kids from the other side of the county! And you will still have your all white schools, and we will still have to deal with what we are given.

our schools the kids from the oposite side of the county along the Clayton county line, and the kids from PTC only on the side of 74 that has the apartments and not the other side?

No token_school. You only have the kids from AMLI apartments on HWY 74 attending your school. There is a little neighborhood behind Ardenlee called Crabapple (they connect) which also attends FRMS/SCHS. Everyone else on that side of Hwy 74 attends Booth/MHS. can't explain the northern/east side of the county thing......seems bizzare to me too!

I love your avatar! Makes me smile everytime I see it

My children attend the school that is probably the most racially and socio-economically integrated school in Fayette County and I could not be happier. It is diverse in every respect and the teachers and staff are wonderful.

Now we are told that we will be shipped from one to school to another to another and the result will be instability for our family. "You go to this school until this school is ready and then when this school is ready you go here and to heck with your kids, with our low standards your kids won't be affected in the slightest." The school board is about concerned as if they were unloading cargo at the port docks.

Again, the issue in my family's mind is not race and frankly not even proximity. The issue is stability. It seems to me that this a significant problem which results from poor planning. I would agree with the post that with as little electoral accountability as we have, we deserve it. Most of these people are unopposed.

Let's use the Peachtree Pkwy area homes as a possible example-you purchase your home in Peachtree City limits and McIntosh HS is 1/2 to 1 1/2 miles away. Sandy Creek HS is 8-9 miles down the road. Logically you presume your children will be able to go to McIntosh HS. You chose to spend your $500,000+ on a home in the PTC city limits, although you could have spent this much in Tyrone. You prefer your child to attend a high achieving high school rather than one whose SAT scores rank below the state average. (In a state ranked in the bottom 5 in the nation). Just an example of what could happen...