{"id":1556,"date":"2011-09-01T17:40:48","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T21:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/hamilton-co-tn-is-high-priority-school-district-vboe-29-august-2011.html"},"modified":"2011-09-01T17:40:48","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T21:40:48","slug":"hamilton-co-tn-is-high-priority-school-district-vboe-29-august-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/hamilton-co-tn-is-high-priority-school-district-vboe-29-august-2011.html","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton Co. TN is high priority school district &mdash;David Mullis @ VBOE 29 August 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g-4lzGInYY8&#038;list=PL14FD60BF813522B8&#038;index=9&#038;feature=plpp\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/g-4lzGInYY8\/default.jpg\"><\/a>\n<strike>I didn&#8217;t catch his name, but he<\/strike> David Mullis talked about his children and said:\n<blockquote>\nAll of my children have fourished in the Valdosta School System.\n<br>\n&#8230;\n<br>\nThe special ed program they have here is second to none.\n<\/blockquote>\nThen he got to the night&#8217;s topic:\n<blockquote>\nWhen I look at these things when people talk about consolidation,\nI have to ask the question:\nwhy do they want to consolidate two school systems?\nThe things that they say sound good.\nI think everything they say would be agreab\nWhat do they mean by them?\nAnd I have a little bit of a problem;\nwhenever somebody wants to combine two groups together,\nit almost looks like they want to control the whole.\n<\/blockquote>\nAnd this little bombshell:\n<blockquote>\nIt seems like the group that is most pushing this thing\nis referring to the Tennessee Hamilton County system,\nwhich if you read their site, sounds like their statistics are good\nand everything&#8217;s working good.\nExcept that there&#8217;s some data that came out a month ago\nthat says that they are,\nthe first time, the entire district is high priority.\n<br>\n&#8230;\n<br>\nThat means they had two years of bad results.\n<\/blockquote>\nThere&#8217;s more in\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g-4lzGInYY8&#038;list=PL14FD60BF813522B8&#038;index=9&#038;feature=plpp\">\nthe video:<\/a>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"345\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g-4lzGInYY8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<br>\n<small>\nHamilton Co. TN is high priority school district @ VBOE 29 August 2011\n<br>\neducation, referendum, consolidation, statement,\n<br>\nWork Session, Valdosta Board of Education (VBOE),\n<br>\nValdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 29 August 2011.\n<br>\nVideos by John S. Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.\n<\/small>\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I didn&#8217;t catch his name, but he David Mullis talked about his children and said: All of my children have fourished in the Valdosta School System. &#8230; The special ed program they have here is second to none. 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