{"id":1329,"date":"2011-10-30T11:12:28","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T15:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/any-parent-is-free-to-send-their-children-to-valdosta-schools-susan-wehling-vboe-25-october-2011.html"},"modified":"2011-10-30T11:12:28","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T15:12:28","slug":"any-parent-is-free-to-send-their-children-to-valdosta-schools-susan-wehling-vboe-25-october-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/any-parent-is-free-to-send-their-children-to-valdosta-schools-susan-wehling-vboe-25-october-2011.html","title":{"rendered":"Any parent is free to send their children to Valdosta Schools &mdash;Susan Wehling @ VBOE 25 October 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Susan Wehling made several good points Tuesday, including an invitation for CUEE to put their children where their mouth is, like she already has.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/82T6iFwq1bs\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/82T6iFwq1bs\/1.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nHi, I&#8217;m a parent, and I have three kids in school right now; one just graduated.<\/p>\n<p>\nFirst of all, CUEE sent me flyers&#8230; to insult my schools&#8230;.<br \/>\nThat was very hurtful for my children to read those flyers<br \/>\ntelling them how bad my schools are.<br \/>\nMy schools are not bad, and I&#8217;m very upset about that.<\/p>\n<p>\n[applause]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She also said:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThese flyers talk about diversity and integration,<br \/>\nand I&#8217;m confused because what I understood is that any parent<br \/>\nwelcome to send their kids to Valdosta schools.<br \/>\nis that not correct?<\/p>\n<p>\n[Answer from staff:] Yes.<\/p>\n<p>\nIf CUEE people are so concerned about consolidation and integration,<br \/>\nwe welcome you to join our schools.<\/p>\n<p>\n[cheers and applause]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/82T6iFwq1bs\"><br \/>\nthe video:<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/82T6iFwq1bs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<small><br \/>\nAny parent is free to send their kids to Valdosta Schools &mdash;Susan Wehling @ VBOE 25 October 2011<br \/>\n<br \/>\neducation, schools, referendum, consolidation, unification,<br \/>\n<br \/>\nForum at JL Lomax Elementary School, Valdosta Board of Education (VBOE),<br \/>\n<br \/>\nValdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 25 October 2011.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVideos by Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.<br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan Wehling made several good points Tuesday, including an invitation for CUEE to put their children where their mouth is, like she already has. Hi, I&#8217;m a parent, and I have three kids in school right now; one just graduated. First of all, CUEE sent me flyers&#8230; to insult my schools&#8230;. That was very hurtful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,40,1376,14,15,49,3,1106,3493],"tags":[3499,1636,8829,1793,8705,3498,8701,10,3528,8702,12,7,1486,3410,1635,6,1619,8816],"class_list":["post-1329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-community","category-cuee","category-economy","category-education","category-elections","category-transparency","category-vboe","category-vboe-25-october-2011","tag-25-october-2011","tag-consolidation","tag-cuee","tag-diversity","tag-education","tag-forum-at-jl-lomax-elementary-school","tag-georgia","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-integration","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-referendum","tag-schools","tag-unification","tag-valdosta","tag-valdosta-board-of-education","tag-vboe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}