Wildcat, check your regular email.

Your situation is understood Wildcat. My wife taught in Fulton County for many years and faced the same issues even through good economies. Since she taught in low income minority areas the support she received was nonexistent. If was not uncommon for us to dish out several hundred dollars a year for supplies out of our personal funds.

I would like to think that the parents in Fayette County might step it up a bit and help you guys out. Mrs. Git has bought extras of everything for out kids classes. I hope those of you reading this will consider what Wildcat has brought up and help the teachers out with the supplies needed to educate your children. Skip a meal or two at Longhorns and apply it toward your kid's education since the school board has confiscated the funds needed for teacher supplies to keep the largess in place for those who hang out in the school board offices.

Obama.... The Bernie Madoff Of Washington

I agree ask for parents help but be sure to ask the parents who voted for Obama to help. Take a look around the school parking lots and any car with an Obama sticker should be willing to help out. But you better do it quick as I see fewer and fewer "dumbed down" Obots riding around town with Obama stickers.

I find it irresponsible of any school administration who try to teach kids with no paper or crayons!

Although I only remember needing one pencil and one notebook of paper and one paper holder. Used books were loaned to us.
We didn't do kleenex, paper towels, soap, had sears catalog in the outdoor johnny, and brought our own peanut butter and jam. Drank out of a dipper. Carried the water from a pump at bottom of the hill.
Us boys caried the coal and kept the Franklin stuffed.

Like Lincoln we read by oil lamp---or did he use candles or fireplace light?

Roosevelt brought in rural electric and mail! (Hoover saw no necessity)
No blacks went to school much. No Orientals around ceptin California.

I did know multiplication tables, spelling, story telling, acting, but little literature. Could kill hogs, hoe corn and shuck the ears.

Its all in the leaders.

Bonk, if you don't mind my nosiness, just how in the h-ll old are you? I'm not a kid and most of the stuff you cite is way before my time.

Are you saying that I am lying to you? You have no interest in Past?
Why are you so fascinated by age, otherwise?

Not everyone drinks too much, smokes too much, worries too much
and if they aren't dead early are dumb and ignorant. Can't even keep up with the jive! Not me.

Where to begin? First of all I don't care of you're 12 or 112. Since I'm sneaking up on 70 myself and you spend a lot of discourse on things my Dad talked about you had me wondering. Never though you were lying, didn’t even consider it. However, since you brought it up, are you? And please post the translation for that last paragraph. Or at least its relevance to the conversation. And look at this, here I am caught up in the same crap several other posters have found themselves in. I'll let it go at this.

I believe it may be a matter of time and location. Bonk is at least 75, since he witnessed CCC crews, and he could be from an area that was late coming into the 20th century (he does have a good command of some form of rural dialect). Heck, I did homework by oil lamp when the rural electric system failed, which was often, and I am only 57.

It's not easy being the carbonunit

RE: Bonkie Poo

Since peanut butter was first patented in 1884 and the first regular Sears, Roebuck was first issued in 1894, Bonkers could be 125 years old!! Probably only 115 though because he probably started school when he was ten--had to be home to slop that corn and husk those hogs. As for the CCC I think he was forty or thereaouts when Frankie D establised the CCC-, me myself, I was just a sweet, precocious little girl at that time but like Bonks, I won't reveal my age--not unless you insist! I think Bonkie was really born in the lap or luxury and is ashamed of the fortune his family made selling bootleg peanut butter and therefore he pretends to be from humble beginnings -the everyday man-so to speak. He watches re-runs of He Haw and Mayberry RFD to study the speech patterns, that is when he is not cutting coupons and following his stock portfolio. Maybe use of the Sear, Roebuck catalog explains his odd turns on most occasions--the dyes used back them were not regulated so who knows what may have snuck into his system, to lie dormant for years and rear it's ugly head (ugh) today. I think I ran into Bonkie Doo the other day in the grocery store, he was holding up the entire line while he discoursed on why we do not have security police on the cart paths, why schools do not need kleenex, why he was being carded when he was only buying near-beer and the return of segration.

No coopuns, usns had yaller and green stampes. fite ovr them stuff. Why ye cud git flair saks-printed-fer em.
Them thar cattielogs in the day had soft papr--not lak the slicks of today! Well actual, sears dont mak no cattielogs no mor! They got a store everwhar!

I fer "The Beverley Hillbilles" personal. Not muche fer heehaw.
I dont lak RFD TV howsumevr wif Imus the dopy jackass.

Thim thar carte pathes aint gonna git no redoin or patchin ennyway soone! No developeer has questewd enny! boy theyd hop fer em.

whutcha rekon PTC wil do fer muney next yar? rekon sales tax wil be up? meebe housin wil be up?
Sonny may giv us sum ikf he kin git it frum DC.

By thu way kin our lake watr be revers pumped to gwinet and atlanta? I thin it kin myself. rekon weuns nede tuh dril sum wells?

bein in thu "lap uf luxry (lak george, and dick)" i aint woried muche. i bought me sum uf that thar tv gold they is selin--jist paid $150 fer a $20 piece. ir aint nevr ben wurth zero, they say---whut do thet haf tuh do wif ennythang no way?

soon as the carte paths kin be widened sose them crowns of victories can navigat thim, the cops will tour onem. not afore methinks.
they wil becom lak the rodes in "beyond toonderdome."

whut is a pre-coated girl lak you air? Or wuz?

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No. I'm not from from Georgia!

I figured you weren't from Georgia or you would have been filling that stove up with pine tree knots.

It's not easy being the carbonunit

How do kids in group homes obtain back-to-school supplies? Are there provisions? Are these needs usually covered by their teachers?

Thinking about this makes me rather sad.

You weren't dumb, just optimistic and wanted to believe. Everyone does the same thing, good people get taken in all the time because they assume wrongly, others have their same good heart.

That is why they don't look at the truth. The truth in this case that some had ties to developement.

It is hard to accept that some would hurt so many for so few.

Poor proof reading through angry eyes!

This was some of Marion Keys answers when she ran for office this past time. If you remember Smith, nor Smola would.. NOT..answer these questions of the Citizens.

Another reason I'm printing this is when I listen to a tape of the Feb 23 part 2, tape. It was mentioned by Dr Todd..that SEVERAL.. not 1,or 2, but SEVERAL... schools were ..underquota to get Federal funding!!!

This caused me to digg some more and I found this.

Marian is saying we had far too many students ..before InMan, much less Rivers! She and Dr T voted against them! Guess who the 3 were who voted not only to build Inmann, but Rivers as well?

Question: 1. The school board is faced with the likelihood of having to increase the millage rate from 18.569 to 19.35, a rate just .65 mills under the maximum allowed. If negative conditions such as Fayette’s economic downturn have not improved significantly by mid-2009, the board might be faced with deciding to either cut programs or expenses, increase the millage again or all the above. How will you handle those decisions? Are you prepared to cut people and programs if necessary? Be specific. (And please explain — if you don’t have any definite position on this, why should anybody vote for you?)

Answer: 1. I, Marion Key, have been asking for an assessment of program costs and effectiveness for some time. I will support requiring the superintendent to provide this data to the board prior to the FY 2010 budget process with specific recommendations for cuts and revisions to the budget. It is the superintendent’s responsibility to make those recommendations and I will insist to my fellow board members that this process be followed.

Why did the BOE buy an extra 100 acres at Inman? This bond money is now tied up in land we cannot use. Why did we buy the Kiwanis property? To build a bus facility?

There were no plans for such a facility and there are no plans nor money now to build such a facility. I voted against both of these acquisitions.

We had to build Inman at 600 capacity instead of the usual 800 capacity because our bond money is tied up in land. Rivers [Elementary] is also being constructed at the smaller capacity for the same reason.
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Question: 7. It looks like we built too many classrooms for declining student numbers. That’s a lot of local tax dollars. Who should be held accountable for that miscalculation?

Answer: 7. I voted against constructing Inman and Rivers elementary schools because enrollment projections clearly indicated the schools were not needed at this time. Prior to the construction of Inman, we had space for 10,000 elementary students and about 9,200 enrolled.

Question: 8. Few people like redrawing school district attendance lines. This year, several candidates seem to focus on that process. Give the current board a grade from A to F for the most recent redistricting plan adopted. And, by the way, should voters elect a single-issue candidate, even if that issue is redistricting?

Answer: 8. Since I did not vote for the last two redistrictings , I would give the Board an F. We have more space system wide than we need, yet after redistricting, we are still using trailers. We are paying twice for utilities at schools with empty space and the trailers.

My position in the redistricting process was for all schools to have enough students to receive full state funding for their administrative overhead. The consultant and the committee had developed a plan to meet that criteria.

The board chose to change the recommended boundaries over my objections. This is the reason we have trailers in some schools while other schools do not meet the state’s minimum enrollment requirements to receive full funding for administrative costs. This leaves Fayette County’s taxpayers to make up the shortfall.

Does anyone know what school(s) is(are) not receiving full funding due to the Board's failure to redistrict properly?

My understanding is it's got nothing to do with redistricting. The Bozo board of education built more buildings than they had students. It doesn't matter where the kids are districted.

Vote Republican

when your paychecks are short, remember the 3 that voted to build those 2 new schools and buy all that extra land and tie up our money!

Taxpayers, when you look at your outrageous tax bill, remember that 3 on the board were told/warned/reminded..etc., repeatably, we didn't have the kids, nor money, to build these schools!

!!!!!!AND....THEY BUILT THEM ANYWAY!!!!!!

You can find individual school results here:
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/georgia-crct-scores-2009.html

The AJC doesn't acknowledge hardly anyone but the core metro counties anymore, I'm surprised they even deliver way out here in Fayette.

I yam what I yam....Popeye

I was just curious usually we were always listed, but not this year.

Good to hear from you. Have a good weekend.

For my entire adult life, where ever I've lived, I've subscribed to a local paper. That's about to change when my current subscription is up. Believe the only Fayette news in the last several months has been the Horgan mess. Besides we have the Citizen, best driveway paper in my estimation, to keep us current with the meaningful news.

I've yet to see any scores that didn't have Fayette listed in a very favorable light.

Check online. Our teachers, parents, and students have ALL passed the NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND mandates for 5 years. No school staff needed to improve! Quite an accomplishment . .and boring news. Again - Congratulations Fayette County!