I would love to spend time with my family at the Langdale Park and see the new trails, but it is not exactly a family oriented park now is it?
There are many homes, facilities in the area to help women overcome addiction and get their life on track, yet none for men unless you want to count prison.
I just read Coach Tomberlin's comments on Friday night's game. As both a LHS and VHS fan (when they aren't playing Lowndes), I am impressed with his leadership skills in the face of adversity from his employers. Surely it isn't easy to coach a team that knows their leader is on the way out. VBOE and Valdosta Touchdown Club need to seriously rethink their knee-jerk reaction to the Lowndes/Valdosta game.
You think the Lowndes Web sites are bad, you should see the city's teacher Web sites. There is never any information posted, much less updates. Everything reads, "under construction"— I know for a fact that many, if not all, county school teachers have to update their Web sites. Does the city even require their teachers to update theirs?
In response to the thumbs down about Department of Corrections: There's a lot the public hasn't been told. Like just how short staffed these facilities are run. Even shorter with furloughs. This isn't like a school where another person can fill in. There is just one more person not there but the inmates still are.
At last year’s VSU playoff game a little over 3,000 people attended, many of them students that got in free. This year VSU flew to Arkansas and then rented a fleet of buses to take them to the stadium. Extracurricular activities like football are supposed to be self supporting. The students at VSU currently pay the highest fees of any school in the state and we still can't get many of the classes we need. Please don't ask us to pay for a football stadium. Let all of the fans and former players pay for it. It’s a hobby.
I think the Valdosta football booster club is looking pretty dumb right now. Great job Coach T, keep it up, win state and rub it in all their faces.
I'm not surprised by what happened to correctional officer Hankerson. The prisons are always short staffed and the employee turnover is extremely high. Buildings require two floor officers. Most buildings only ever have one. Drugs and cell phones are constantly getting into the prison.
What We Think
Rant & Rave for November 5, 2009
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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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Fathers teaching daughters
It began as a small gathering for fathers and daughters. It has become one of Valdosta’s most popular social events of the year.
Several years ago, Jeff Stewart co-founded the event with his wife, Becky, as a way for him to give a special night to his two daughters. Other fathers of First Presbyterian Church liked the idea and the Father-Daughter Valentine Dance was born. -
Sports tourneys: They will come
More than 20 years after its release, “Field of Dreams’” mantra, “If you build it, they will come,” has possibly become one of the most overused lines from any movie. Yet, it seems all too fitting for what’s been happening lately within the Valdosta-Lowndes County Parks and Recreation Authority.
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Grading policy: A second chance?
