{"id":1479,"date":"2011-09-25T09:22:55","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T13:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/tom-gooding-and-the-chamber-rebuffed-vboe-20-sep-2011.html"},"modified":"2011-09-25T09:22:55","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T13:22:55","slug":"tom-gooding-and-the-chamber-rebuffed-vboe-20-sep-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/tom-gooding-and-the-chamber-rebuffed-vboe-20-sep-2011.html","title":{"rendered":"Tom Gooding and the Chamber rebuffed @ VBOE 20 Sep 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iuJ_sgNc9mU\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/iuJ_sgNc9mU\/default.jpg\"><\/a>\nTom Gooding, Chair of the Valdosta-Lowndes County Chamber of Commerce,\nasked the school boards to do the Chamber&#8217;s homework.\nHe got no takers.\n<p>\nReiterating the Chamber&#8217;s demand from its\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/09\/chamber-of-commerce-berates-school-boards.html\">letter of 9 September 2011,<\/a>\nGooding asked VBOE superintendent Dr. Cason at the 20 September VBOE\nforum to commit to meeting about what to do if the &#8220;unification&#8221;\nreferendum passes.\n<p>\nDr. Cason said that should have happened two years ago, and\n<blockquote>\nNow is not the appropriate time.\n<\/blockquote>\nHe said if the referendum passes, then the two school boards will sit down\ntogether.\nDr. Cason didn&#8217;t say anything about inviting the Chamber or CUEE to such\nmeetings, since, after all, neither the Chamber or CUEE would have any legal\nrole.\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iuJ_sgNc9mU\">\nthe video:<\/a>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iuJ_sgNc9mU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<br>\n<small>\nTom Gooding rebuffed @ VBOE 20 Sep 2011\n<br>\neducation, referendum, consolidation, statement,\n<br>\nForum at Valdosta Middle School, Valdosta Board of Education (VBOE),\n<br>\nValdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 20 September 2011.\n<br>\nVideos by George Boston Rhynes for bostongbr on YouTube.\n<\/small>\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Gooding, Chair of the Valdosta-Lowndes County Chamber of Commerce, asked the school boards to do the Chamber&#8217;s homework. 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