I like the idea of year-round schools, also. However, teachers and other state employees are already being furloughed because the state supposedly can't afford to pay them. How do you propose to cover the increased costs of year-round schools?
Don't back down Dr. Cason. This small group of misinformed folks will soon realize that you have the students’ best interest at heart. I want my kids (who are in VCS) to have the best leadership and I don't care what color they are as long as they have your goals and vision for VCS.
I disagree with year-round school. Just because other countries have it means nothing. Back in the day, we were number one in the world and the school year was the same as it is now. What has changed is who controls what is being taught and our attitudes as students and parents.
Get the U.S. troops and mercenaries out of Iraq now, before even more innocent women and children are slaughtered. We should never have been there in the first place. Why doesn't anyone have the courage to stop this madness that Bush initiated?
There is so much jealousy of teachers and their careers, it's very obvious. We have and do work hard for our positions, with most weeks double the hours we are paid for. Our jobs are not eight hours a day. It continues after we get home grading papers, etc., and meetings. We need the summer vacation to relax a little with our families, but a lot of those weeks we are preparing for the next year or more meetings. We chose the career because we love our students and want to see them succeed in life. That is a great reward.
It seems that our county engineer acts as if he owns Lowndes County and can talk to the hard-working taxpayers as if they were his pawns. The last time I checked, we the taxpayers pay his salary. Common courtesy goes a long way!
Why can't The Times address the real issue? Had not Bush-Cheney involved the U.S. in their war for Halliburton, and concentrated on the real threat, Al-Qaeda, we probably would have some handle on the war in Afghanistan by now. We wouldn't be eight years past 9-11 with the situation deteriorating.
Please, please reconsider the name for Valdosta Tech. I do not want to say I graduated from Wiregrass Tech.
What We Think
Rant & Rave for October 29, 2009
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Don’t jettison landmark
While we respect the request to relocate the F-86 aircraft from outside Mathis City Auditorium to the new Moody Air Force Base Airpark, we would hope the city and MAFB would reconsider moving it.
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Shame in Berrien County
Unfortunately for Sherrie Williams of the Berrien County school-based health clinic, she talked to The Times and praised the program that she oversees. This pride in her work led to the loss of her job.
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Grading policy: A second chance?
In clarifying the Lowndes County Schools’ controversial grading policy, Superintendent Dr. Steve Smith spoke of second chances.
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Be up to any weather challenge
Georgia’s Severe Weather Awareness Week starts today and runs through Friday. The idea behind the week is to prepare Georgians for weather emergencies and how to keep these situations from becoming tragedies.
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Parents and schools
There is a lot of talk lately about school systems and grading policies, and how all of a child's problems come back to a lack of parenting. But is it really that simple? Can it be a case where the school systems are so focused on the problem few that the majority of students are ignored?
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Thumbs up, thumbs down
THUMBS UP: To Brooks County High School engineering and technology teacher Don Morgan and his students. They recently received national attention for their work with biodiesel fuel. They collect used cooking oil from area fast-food restaurants then process this oil into biodiesel. Morgan hopes to next interest the Brooks County school buses into running on the fuel created in his class. This classroom not only prepares students for the future but may prepare all of us for an alternative energy source.
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Take me out to the ball park
The Valdosta State baseball season begins today. The Blazers host Lindenwood at 2:30 p.m. Nothing beats quality baseball played in warm weather with a great venue like Billy Grant Field.
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What We Think: Signing Day
Wednesday was National Signing Day, the day when high school athletes across the country make official announcements about what school they’ve chosen to sign with.
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School policy fails expectations
Lowndes County Schools recently implemented new grading guidelines for students. These guidelines have left many parents upset ...
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Just the facts, please
The Times has taken some hits this weekend following the reporting of the Rev. Floyd Rose’ rally on Saturday concerning the car which drove into a home, killing an infant on New Year’s, and an incident at Pinevale Learning Center. Some police officers think the VDT is not being fair, and Rose accused the VDT of not printing the facts, but the facts are as follows:
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