exactly! we have got to have bigger voices! we pay same taxes as all these other people and they choice to avoid us on the north part of town! put the special needs in Burch! then move our precious children who deserve new facilities to Rivers. Same buses etc. no change in bourdaries, all teachers move etc. what do we have to do to make them listen? this is absolutely ridiculous!

to go...

Maybe they wanted to close Tyrone Elm, so they could open Rivers. A lot of people complained. They do not have enough kids to get federal money if they keep all the schools open...so...maybe...to open it for the 40 kids is a ruse...so you will squawk and say they should close Tyrone Elm or Birch to open Rivers.

They, the 3, are laying it out for you to do their dirty work.

The big deal is to open that school and help the developers that bought the land around it.

Why else do you think they would have done this? Use your brain and don't be their parrot...money is the name of the game...not kids..

As I understand it, you have to have a certain number of kids to teachers. Under that, and you don't get federal funding. That school was built on speculation that there would be more students due to the developers building on the land around it. If they take kids out of Tyrone Elm and Birch and put them in Rivers, as I understand it, there wouldn't be enough kids and they would all be under the quota to get government money in all of them! Birch is the only one crowded and that is due to the closing of another elementary school that should have been left in place.

They have made a mess, this is true. When I say that I want to make sure that everyone knows ...I do not mean Ms Key, nor Dr Todd. They have been out voted and bullied by the others. They are the only 2 with the right background for the job. It is a pity. Smith's husband owns a large plumbing company and has been, and may still be in a development, as in new homes, company. Wright works for Delta, go figure. Smola, says she is a free fund raiser. The only ones with teaching background and no ties are Key and Todd, but, they are out voted.

Tyrone Elementary has no sewer problem. That is a flag that has been raised on more than one occasion to try to get sewer run through the town so, again, developers could build more houses along there. Again a lot of that land is owned by people waiting to make some money.

People in Tyrone have been watching this for many years. A lot of us hoped with the last election that the voters would wake up! They didn't....like pigs to slaughter.

Apathy is a cash cow in Fayette county!

Burch has actually been overcrowded for a couple years now and not due to closing any schools! There have actually been school openings close by! Cleveland and Crabapple schools are not overcrowded, but due to demographics will not accept any of the overflow from Burch! There are 4 buses that go to Landmark Mobile Home park holding almost 200 children!!! This consists of primarily Hispanic and low income families that the other schools do not wish to have!! Face the facts that the board does not explain to the rest of Fayette Co. The teachers at Burch are amazing at what they have to endure with teaching a large number of non-English speaking students. We are neglected here in N. Fayette. I pay taxes like everyone else, but do not get a new school for my child. If we move our Burch staff and children to Rivers and Mainstay to Burch, maybe more people would want to move here and fill up the "empty" desks as we are told there are. Burch is way overcrowded! We would fill up the new school and possibly trailers! Please help us outnumbered parents to get board to listen to us! Our children deserve better education than this. And they say they want Fayette co. to stay the best? How can we in crowded spaces. Burch kids need nice playground and facilities also. Possibly more so then the 40 kids they plan to put in a new school!!!!

don't get sucked into one of those 'email trees' some have. If you want to know about Tyrone Elm 's sewer problem, or lack of problem, ask anyone on Tyrone's town council. They will tell you the truth.

As a person who had a special ed person in their family. I think this will be good for them. They are often shy and need a friendly environment to open up. Kids are not often friendly nor nice to them.

But, this was not what the school was intended for. What happened is they built that school because developers own the land around it. They built on pure speculation, not the best interest of present taxpayers. To be more blunt, the present taxpayers are footing the bill for new schools that the developer's clients should have to pay for when they move in. that won't be the case.

They talked about the overcrowding at Birch which was caused by the BOE. They could have waited to close the other elementary...but they didn't. They wanted to make Peoples seem as needed as possible.

Now, if they take kids out of Birch, Tyrone Elementary etc, to fill up Peoples, then they will not have enough kids in any to get federal funding. Tyrone is under comp and some of the kids could, and still can, be sent from Birch to Tyrone Elm.

It was an ugly bet with taxpayers money and kids. They lost, and now only the taxpayers and their children suffer the consequences.

Burch and Tyrone are on the north part of town and peeples in south Fayette. Where are you going with that concept?

my bad, I was referring to Rivers, but said Peoples.

so this, and a lot more to come, is what you get. You had a chance to get rid of Smith and Smola in the last election and you didn't. People were shouting from the roof tops they were wasting our money and would waste more. But you didn't do anything about it with your vote.

Our taxes are higher, we have SPLOT,SPLATT and SPLOST and the waste goes on.

The discouraging thing is that these dumb voters are our neighbors, Suggarfoot. The same people that have TEA parties vote for SPLOST.

Come from Canada

YOU ARE ONE OF THE DUMBEST PEOPLE I HAVE HEARD. JUST BECAUSE PEOPLE GO AT CHANGE IN A WAY THAT YOU DON'T HAPPEN TO AGREE WITH DOES NOT MAKE THEM DUMB!! WHY DON'T YOU COME TO ONE OF THE LOCAL TEA PARTIES AND SEE WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE ARE THERE. OR MAYBE YOU ARE AFRAID THAT SOME ONE MIGHT TAKE YOUR PICTURE AND ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS WOULD SEE YOU. OR BETTER YET OUR WELL EDUCATED PEOPLE IN OUR HOMELAND SECURITY DEPT MIGHT GET A GLIMPSE OF YOUR FACE AND THINK THAT YOU REALLY CARE ABOUT AMERICA AND THEREFORE YOU ARE A DOMESTIC TERRORIST.

Please stop shouting

ZoeS

"Never love anything that can't love you back."

I KNOW THAT CAPS MEANS SHOUTING WHEN YOU ARE TALKING TO TEENY BOPERS BUT I THOUGHT WE WERE ALL ADULTS HERE. BELIEVE BE IF I WAS SHOUTING AT YOU IT WOULN'T SOUND LIKE TYPING. I GUUESS YOU WON'T BE MY BFF ANY LONGER OMG. LOL

But like the blogger below says, maybe you are something special.

Normally a computer has a button clearly marked CAPS. So you want the world to conform to your way of thinking rather than going along with the rest of us on this simple etiquette. YOU THINK YOU’RE SOMETHING SPECIAL?

YEAH I AM SOMETHING VERY SPECIAL

The term "special people" is a euphemism that describes our fellow citizens with mental handicaps or deficiencies. Pomsmom is indeed very special. I am glad to see pomsmom acknowledge it. It is a point we can all agree on.

Run FOREST Run...

You want to prove that point... Didn't think so..

"When the person who in possession of a government, shall say to a nation, I hold this power in 'contempt' of you, it signifies not on what authority he pretends to say it is..but an aggravation to a person in slavery"..Thomas Paine

in Fayette county!

That solution just makes too much sense! That's why it'll never be considered!

on this one. The 3 amigos make one blooper after another, the only problem is, we pay for them. I would love to hear their reasons. It has to be a dilly. But, again, I don't find issues with the special ed kids having something, but the whole thing is never thought out.

You should have gotten them out when you had the chance. Now, everyone is still paying for their blunders. It will get nastier. I promise.