I am all for the vouchers and think they should definitly be giving those out - I've had my dealings with Mr. Campbell as well as others and I'm sorry it's a big joke! No wonder overseas in Europe the kids are so much more educated than here. Over there, the dollars are designated to the child, not the school or the system and if the parent feels the school is not meeting their child's needs, they move them to private school and the dollars go too. I know for fact there are way too many in our schools that are not supposed to be, but good luck getting results.

You are right. It is a big joke. If we as taxpayers sit back and allow this to continue, it is our own fault. I say UNITE and go to the school board meeting 2/13 and stand up to them. If they don't respond, they can and will be replaced come election time.

Mr. Campbell was quoted in the newspaper that the out of county tags were really people who have moved here, but they did not want to buy new tags because they had already purchased them in the other county. If Mr. Campbell would bother to check he would find out that there is NO CHARGE to change a tag to your new county. In fact, it is the LAW that you must do that within 30 days of moving. Of course, these people are not bothered by obeying the law. Wake up school board. This is a real problem. Let's elect two new school board members this year. Then three new ones next time.

The school license plates people are talking about are people driving up between 5:30 to 6:00 to pick up students. These are not teachers.

I work for the state. So I have plenty of resources. I write down tag #s constantly at my son's school.I then go back and see where there registerd. Most of the time they are true out of county tags just renewed in the the county they've always lived in(most cases clayton co.)Both parents still live together, so the one parent lives here and one lives somewhere else doesn't apply in most cases. I also find there place of empolyment, and in all cases, they do NOT work for any school systems. So as you see most out of county tags are felonist, stealing services. I'll be more than happy to track every one of theses law breaking citizens down and help have them booted. Enough is enough. I urge every one to show up at the next BOE meeting. We need to stand together and show this board we mean business, and we're NOT backing down!!! Feel free to to email me any info you have on out of county citizens.

You all just don't get it. There are a hundred easy ways to verify residence quickly. What is wrong is that you are messing with the forces that control the world! Many people don't realize that some things are so entrenched, so powerful, so prevalent, that one must not interfere in their functioning. Oil companies, the US Senate, George Bush, town cops, and school administrations are to name a few.
If you will allow them to correct the situation in their own time and without it looking like they were forced to do so, maybe, maybe, they will relent. There are also secret deals for certain stucents (athletes, music scholars, friends, politicians) that may be hindered if you insist upon full compliance. We just pretend to be totally democratic here and not to show any favoritism, it has never been that way and never will be. It takes a very understanding man to be Superintendent.

Yeah. Let's just be quiet and let them work in their own time. Yeah, that will work. That has been working just fine. Yeah, right. You are the one that doesn't get it.

When your friend moved to Senoia she and her family stopped paying taxes in Fayette County and began payng taxes in Coweta County - although probably not the full $7,000 per year it costs to educate her - she then became Coweta's responsibility.

The harm is that illegal students are stealing from the legal students and yes, the children of teachers and other school employees are legal students regardless of where they live.

It is so easy to monitor this - especially when you realize every illegal student caught and expelled saves the system $7,000 per year and the few undiscoverd illegals will be embarrassed and leave.

And yes they are "illegals" - don't sugarcoat this and get all politically correct - this is felony theft!

Felony Theft ??? LOL ...That sounds like Robert W. Morgan Lenox's warrant for Steve Brown taking his secretary up on her offer to drop the kid off at camp. The judge rightly tossed that one.

So a few parents are trying to get their kids into our schools to better their lives. Big deal. They probably behave and keep their mouths shut. Take the rich spoiled brats that cause trouble and send them to work camps.

The answer is what the GOP has been saying for years (brace yourself, Bob, Lani Guinier and the left)--- the answer is VOUCHERS...Let kids come here. Let them use the voucher system. Let me choose the schools. And make the teachers compete for their jobs. The lousy ones get minimum wage. The good ones get paid.

Well, it took you a while to get to the point, but there in the middle of your third paragraph was an actual point. Vouchers! Yes! Great solution and as you point out competition for students would be wonderful. The teacher's union has done more to hurt our kids than it has done to help. Ask the next teacher you see if her kid is in public or private school. Ask her what is more important - the quality of her teaching or her retirement benefit. Ask, if you dare.

You can laugh all you want to, but this is certainly theft of services. There are more than a FEW students. The numbers are probably in the hundreds. The teachers and students know. If they want to better themselves, then they should buy property in a good area. Don't come here for us to pay for their student's education. Why do you think we have some many trailers at the schools. Did you just think it was just another of the BOE goof ups?

It wouldn't be a problem if Coweta paid the county's cost of her education to Fayette County...

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We all need to attend the school board meeting 2/13 and ask hard questions about just what they are willing to do to dorrect this problem. Yes, I bet some of those positive votes were from board members themselves.

The grade is down to 10% now and rapidly falling. Wonder what Janet Smola thinks now? The Board needs to be proactive all right. They need to be proactive about purging the schools of students who do not belong here. Why do the citizens need to be enraged about this situation when it should have never been allowed. Whatever they have been doing simply does not work.

It's glaringly apparent that the Fayette Co. School Board is turning a blind eye on illegal out-of-county student enrollments in our county school system. Issuing political damage control statements like, "We take residency checks very seriously" is only the first red flag. I think it's high time we call in a troubleshooter from one of Atlanta's news channels to shine some investigative light on the subject. It should be great fun to watch the roaches scatter.

Let the blame game begin!

Doug interviewed several kids today and we followed them home and got some parents in Clayton County (big surprise) on tape. Unbelievable footage. They actually think it is ok to send their kids to our schools. The excuses are amazing.

Tomorrow we visit Arlene Law and John DeCotis with a camera and a tape of what we did today. Watch Fox5 tomorrow night.

I need to get in touch with you and BuckwheatRules. Im going to the shcool board meeting and would like to try and get alot of people to go. Also what time is the interview airing on Fox5 today?

The TV news has been called. Robert seems to have the inside track. Call him, please.

And please call Doug somebody who lives here and works for Fox5 - he'll get on that like stink on a pig (am I southern yet?)
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The day will never come when a problem like this is attacked forcibly, solved immediately, and someone take the blame. Not in a school heirarchy. Fact is, they do make exceptions for various reasons and don't know how to explain all of them, so all are entered on the roles with only a perfunctory check---which is a waste of time. Just forget it and vote in new people when you can, as we very much need to do now in Washington and Atlanta. Most of us really don't care however, and don't feel like we are being screwed by minorities.

well well well. tyrone has invited clayton county in anyway... whats to stop the ones who haven't moved here yet from taking over the schools.

No, these illegals don't behave and sit quietly.
No, its not OK for them to be here. Fayette Co. won't maintain this "great schools" title if things keep on. Sandy Creek is a disgrace compared to what it used to be.

Our county is changing...and not for the better. Notice all the For Sale signs around town? I know there is one in my front yard.

If you have prove of this, I for one, would like to see it, and see to this being stopped asap. We need somethhing concrete and who is making the waivers and favors. No one has the right to make that decision except the taxpayers themselves. It is our money!