Instead of finding The Fayette Citizen in my driveway last Wednesday, I discovered that the Grove City College Gazette had taken its place. Why import Republicanism from Pennsylvania when we have plenty of right wing radicals in our own county to write simplistic opinions?
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Saw the posting about the elementary school where 67 percent of the faculty are dissatisfied with the principal. I wonder how many teachers, like me, were sure this was their school? Ha!
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Wake up, Fayette County BOE: Another incident at one of your elementary schools. The parents are trying to be in charge when the principal is not there half of the time. Assistant principal was scared to act on an incident where a parent was pushing on a student and talking aggressive. This is where that last write-up in the paper is very true about this school. Poor leadership and the principal is never on the job. Oh, I guess our taxes pay for trips to Las Vegas. The board needs to fix the problem and stop ignoring it because it only gets worst day by day.
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To the parents of elementary school students in the west-central area of Peachtree City: Demand accountability from your Board of Education. They’ve already discriminated against many by allowing only the upper-class kids who can get a ride to school everyday to escape the confines of one particular school’s environment in favor of the “nicer” school to the north. Now the board is failing you again by neglecting serious problems with the administration at your child’s school. They are very aware of the problems, so you may ask why it is they would completely fail to render any assistance. Politics? Nepotism? Affirmative action? Apathy? Negligence? All of the above? Ask them, and demand answers. Call the BOE: 770-460-3535. Or, monthly board meetings are held at 7 p.m. on the third Monday of the month. You can contact them 10 days in advance to be placed on the agenda.
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Cele Eifert, no matter how wonderful she might be, is turning her back on the problem. Don’t blame Mr. Sweat and the FCBOE for having to play musical chairs with the local students. Reality is that if Tyrone hadn’t rezoned to higher density on both Wieland subdivisions and Fayetteville hadn’t annexed and rezoned to higher density several times, the FCBOE wouldn’t be playing musical chairs. Where does Cele stand on up-zoning Wieland to 500 homes on the west side of Peachtree City? Please don’t blame the FCBOE when they’re forced to cram the 1,000 or so new students into a school near where they live. The mayor and council don’t give a hoot about the schools and we’ll pay dearly for it in the years to come. Just as crime and traffic are surging ahead, crowded schools are coming too.
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The PTSO lady, Cele Eifert, is a great example of reactionary politics. Don’t get me wrong, I applaud her stepping up and taking some kind of action; most people won’t act at all. However, why weren’t parents asking for more participation long ago? Most won’t be part of the process and they only surface to scream about the outcomes. A lot of lame and uninterested parents are going to watch PTC annex the John Wieland site with 500 more homes and do absolutely nothing. After the 1,000 new kids hit the school system and the BOE has to slice and dice the PTC and Tyrone districts again, those lame and uninterested parents will become red hot and scream at the BOE. Seriously, the idea of a committee from the PTC government to oversee school issues is extremely tainted since the same government is creating the crowding problems. The same can be said for Fayetteville and Tyrone. There’s no question the BOE can’t be blamed for jacked-up growth by the local governments. If people like Mrs. Eifert want to create some kind of vigilant watch to stop our good thing from going bad, get parents to pay closer attention to what the local governments are doing. The Peachtree City Civic Association and the Tyrone Neighborhood Alliance are great opportunities for parents to assure that local leaders don’t destroy our community and our schools. Get involved now.
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Is it just me or does anyone else think it time for a bypass to be built around Peachtree City? With all of our traffic problems we now have and more on the way, this seems to me to be a good solution. A four-lane bypass with a moratorium on any building on it. This will keep the red lights to a minimum and keep traffic quickly moving around Peachtree City, not though it.
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Approximately one year ago, the mayor and Council sent a survey to the citizens of Peachtree City. One of the questions asked in the survey was if the citizens wanted the city to grow through annexation. The majority of the citizens surveyed answered “no” to the question. Why, Mr. Mayor and Council members, are you going to ignore the wishes of the majority of the community by annexing the West Village? If you are going to ignore the wishes of the majority of the citizens surveyed, why even ask the question? In fact, why even survey the community if you are going to ignore the citizens’ response to your questions? I am sure that the mayor and Council members will say that they did not interpret the answer to the question as a “no” to annexation but rather some other innocuous interpretation. I have always been taught that “no” means “no.”
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The Wieland people can’t get their 399 townhomes, so they pull the public amenities they had planned. Why would we want to work with a developer who acts like that? And what are we going to do with the 1,000 school kids from the new Wieland subdivision? Who is paying for the new school? We’re paying enough taxes for schools now. I don’t want the Board of Education coming to me asking for more money because the city council in Peachtree City had no self-control.
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Why is Mayor Logsdon willing to spend hundreds of thousands of our tax dollars on a lawsuit against GRTA over four lanes when we shouldn’t be building the road in the first place? It has become appallingly obvious that Logsdon’s financial ineptitude has far exceeded his common sense. Stop wasting our tax dollars and start listening to the citizens.
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Mayor Logsdon has made an unholy alliance with the Coweta commissioners and developers who could care less about Fayette County. They simply want a huge payday off of Peachtree City’s reputation. Pathway can’t seem to lose on TDK. Even former Mayor Joel Cowan is pushing for big boxes on his property. There’s a great deal of suffering to come for all of us. Everyone is starting to wonder why Mayor Logsdon is pushing so hard for TDK knowing how many negatives are involved.
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Can anyone tell me why I only ever see two people on the fire trucks in Fayetteville? Is this all we need in case of an emergency? Are these two really that good?
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To the mothers who think that it’s OK to let their kids urinate behind buildings, on gas pumps, etc., why don’t you put a few diapers in your car and let the child urinate into a diaper instead? Then all you have to do is throw it in the trash can. It helped me many a times in emergency situations.
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Surprise, surprise, the town council has decided to hold the most important meeting of the year on the Thursday when all the Fayette county schools are out and most citizens will be out of town. And the slanted article in the February Tyrone Times leads readers to believe that 71 percent of the citizens have already agreed to the senior housing development, when that was never even mentioned in the survey. I think the readers should know that there is a development in Newnan that was originally billed as senior housing in order to get approval. After they got it built and many houses filled, they changed it to be open to all age groups. 100 houses on 23 acres: What is next, MARTA? Think about it and do your best to get to the meeting on Feb. 22. Don’t let them ruin this town any more than Mayor Lee already has.
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The Daytona 500 race on Sunday was a big disappointment to me. Not because of who won but because of who lost and how he lost. It was obvious for a long time that Carl Edwards had the car and driving ability to win this race. When his strategy of moving up to the front in preparation for taking the lead during the last few minutes of the race started he was intentionally rammed on pit row and again on the track until he was finally taken out of the race completely. I thought NASCAR had the only true and honest sportsmen left in the sporting world but it is obvious they do not. Mark Martin is a good race car driver and I would have been happy to see him win honestly. Kevin Harvick edged Martin out at the last second but if Carl Edwards had not been intentionally disabled he would have been out in front with no effort at all because he had shown his ability to pass either of them during the course of the race.
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I know that I feel better. Just nano-seconds after a Muslim immigrant shot up a Utah mall, the FBI assures us that there was no terrorist connection.
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Watergate brought one president down. Bordergate may bring down a whole party.
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Even though it makes my flesh crawl when the Klan opposes open, flagrant illegal immigration, too, I’m not dumb enough to jettison my common sense and embrace open borders.
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The average American can no longer afford to buy a home, have health insurance, send their kids to college and many other things that were reasonable to expect a few years ago. Our leaders dance around the reason but never name it. It’s perfectly clear that the health care industry and the energy industry are bankrupting America with their astronomical prices. Why don’t we face up to the obvious facts and recognize the truth for a change?