Suburban Atlanta school district loses accreditation

Clayton County on the southside has the hammer fall

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/clayton/stories/2008/08/28/clayton_schools_accreditation.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab

 

How's the football team?

 

Not so much. Although one of them did produce D.J. Shockey and current Falcons receiver Harry Douglas went to Jonesboro.

 

Wow

And pulling this accreditation solves what? How does it help the kids?

I would think the state's department of education would step in and take over all administration positions before the pulling of accreditation.

 

That would be construed as "the man" keeping them down.

 

How can you be pulled down when you are already laying on the floor?

 

You know this stuff better than I do, but it seems like all this does is hurt the students and the teachers without really addressing the problem. It sounds like the administration is the real issue here, or am I reading that wrong?

 

Kids are kids. I'm guessing there is a lot of poverty in this district, but it isn't the only one in America with poor kids.

I would lay 90% of the fault on the admin and 10% on the teachers.

If you had a new admin take over, they would probably fire 15-20% of the teachers who are there now, but then who would replace them?

I would take out 10% to motivate the others.

 

They start paying teachers 40K their first year, and they have 74 percent free and reduced lunch students.

They should be passing. This is nowhere close to the worst I have seen.

Something is amiss.

 

This is usually a board problem.

 

http://www.ajc.com/traffic/content/metro/clayton/stories/2008/08/27/judge_clayton_school_board.html

Yep.

 

This has been in the works for a long time now. I hate it for the kids though. They've drug their feet for so many years over their problems that I doubt anything will change too quickly.