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Among the colleges being consolidated:
Swainsboro Technical and Southeastern Technical in Vidalia.
Valdosta Technical and East Central Technical in Fitzgerald.
Northwestern Technical in Rock Spring and Coosa Valley Technical in Rome.
West Central Technical in Waco and West Georgia Technical in LaGrange.
Appalachian Technical in Jasper and North Georgia Technical in Clarkesville.
Griffin Technical and Flint River Technical in Thomaston.
Chattahoochee Technical in Marietta and North Metro Technical in Acworth.
The merger of Chattahoochee and North Metro already is under way, Light said.
Including Savannah Tech, there are 33 schools in the technical-college system.
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No campuses will close but the cut in administration cost is expected to save the state 3.5 million dollars. To what degree the savings will cost the state in stessing management and perhaps hampering the role the schools play in attracting jobs is unknown.
How the mergers will impact programs and class offering also is no known, though the state is down playing that aspect of the change. The states take on it is that each school will be able to offer more programs. With the need to cut cost that suggestion is probably a bit of state propaganda to reduce opposition. While I would doubt new programs, hopefully, the plan will reduce the need to curtail programs.
RALEIGH, North Carolina — College presidents from about 100 of the best-known U.S. universities, including Duke, Dartmouth and Ohio State, are calling on lawmakers to consider lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18, saying current laws actually encourage dangerous binge drinking on campus.
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This is partially what I said would happen when states like Georgia did their holy rolling communist foolishness and raised the drinking age. It is important for young people who are going to drink anyway to behave more adult (which they are) and be able to drink in social situations with more adult peers.
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Mothers Against Drunk Driving says lowering the drinking age would lead to more fatal car crashes. It accuses the presidents of misrepresenting science and looking for an easy way out of an inconvenient problem. MADD officials are even urging parents to think carefully about the safety of colleges whose presidents have signed on.
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No one supports drunk driving at any age. Did raising the drinking age actually reduce the number of drunk driving teens? Responsible driving as all responsible behavior comes from treating responsible people as adults and not as "you are stupid" children. The so called Mothers Against Drunk Driving aren't supporting responsible driving, they are supporting a type of prohibition that is largely ignored as that type of prohibition is historically always ignored. The people who work the closest with the age group being impacted know what is happening and being responsible educators they are speaking up against the Mothers Wanting to Keep Their Children in Diapers.
A crowd of about 60 gathered at the DeKalb home of Jaheem Herrera to remember the fifth-grader who committed suicide. The 11-year-old boy hanged himself at his home after — according to his family — relentless bullying at Dunaire Elementary School.
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Two years previous to this incident, DeKalb public schools adopted an anti-bullying program called “No Place for Hate." The program, sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League, helps train faculty and students on accepting differences, promoting diversity and inclusion.
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But of course Dekalb is studying how to make their bad policy even worse. That is what media and politics dictate schools do.
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When I was in the 1st grade and I was riding the school bus I had some older kid constantly trying to pick a fight with me and I was going home crying like a wimp. My mom made clear that if I did not take care of business with the creep she was going to give me a spanking like I've never had. So the next day, though the kid was much older than me, watching bar fight westerns paid off for me. I brought the bigger kid down down and stomped him. But best of all the kids he was trying to impress laughed at him for getting beat up by a younger kid. You know, sometime "bullying" serves a purpose.
Now how my mom handled that might not suit liberal minded people very well, but from then on I never let people walk over me and I had a confidence I would not have had other wise. I would be in other fights and luckily I knew how to fight. I always made sure the fight ended with a handshake and the other kid knew it was over.
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The school systems are subjecting kids to all sorts of stress and creating an enviroment where kids can't handle that stress like we did as kids. All that politically correct shit is prevently kids from learning how to fight and preventing them from being taught how to fight with honor and how to bring a conflict to an end. It is okay if people don't like me. It is okay if I don't like other people. It is not okay if I allow other people to hurt me or to stop me from liking myself. It is not okay if I cross the line and hurt anyone else. But conflict is part of life.
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Before the 1970's, in the 1950's, schools had a problem with suicide. And there again, it was because schools were too intrusive in people's lives just as they are today. The Eisenhower Society of 1950's was way too intrusive and rigid. It created enviroments where people felt hopeless. And then came the rebellion of the 1960's and the permissive society of the 1970's. Though the education system of the 1970's was totally permissive in many areas of our nation, that system worked a hell of lot better to turn out happy, normal, smart people than the current bullshit is producing. Underachievers in our current system are being put through hell and no one in media or government seems to give a damn!!!
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And I don't mean that to offend teachers. I realize it is tough in the trenches and I know most teachers very much give a damn. They are stuck in a system that politics has totally f'ed over and continues to f over.
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Suicide is tragic. It is seldom because of one event, person(s), or even group of events. It is generally because of depression and feeling hopeless in pain to the point of just wanting to give up. In schools, suicides have been known to happen in clusters. Dekalb's main concern should not be playing the blame game with a focus on bullying but taking the stress off the other kids and fighting any general depression that may be happening in that community due to economic and other social hardships.
Education Must Be About Children - Not Insane Globalism
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What kind of person would make the following statement:
"If we are serious about rebuilding our economy and restoring our competitiveness," Miller, D-Calif., said, "then it's time for states to adopt a common core of internationally benchmarked standards that can prepare all children in this country to achieve and succeed in this global economy."
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America is the greatest nation on the face of the earth. And the greatness of
America often has not come from the best students, but the children who were free to learn what they wanted to learn, to experiment, to dream, to accomplish their talents in the real world.
This hatred for America as a free nation has got to stop. This preaching that our ways are inferior has got to end. We have a business community that pretends that a work force that can not speak English, read English, or write English are more literate than Americans who can. This is not because foreigners are better educated to do American jobs. It is because of the self hating, self loathing, crazy bullshit that our media and that our politicians have preached for the last 60 years.
An American who speaks with a Southern accent is looked at as ignorant not because they are but because the media and politicians have reinforced that bogus stereotype. The same is true if someone speaks with a strong Northern accent or any of the various other decidedly American accents. But now a foreigner comes into Amerca with a foreign accent and they have the best bogus college degrees that can be bought on the black market and they are treated like royalty by America's insane Corporate State.
The American economy did not crash because of America's great and wondrous children who will accomplish much greatness if just allowed. America's economy crashed because of the traitors and the con artist and the evil men who were never taught that which no written test can measure. They were never taught right from wrong. They were never taught that success isn't measured by how much money can be horded. They were never taught that children weren't born and put on this earth to become indebted like mindless slaves to some corrupt, corporate police state.
If a child's gift to the world comes from great intellect then cool. If that child's gift to the world is great music, then beautiful. If that child's gift to the world is bravery and a willingness to sacrifice then respect that heroism. If that child's gift to the world is to work in a factory and produce for the masses, don't disrespect that gift.
True educators understand that education is about helping children. It is not about testing children. It is not about profiling children. It is not about some global economy. Is a child who spends their lives picking apples less worthy than a child educated to build bombs.
Both Obama and Bush need to be rebuked as strongly as possible for not understanding that success in education is not tougher, culturally biased, standards and testing that will only increase the drop out rate. Success is to help children best accomplish their individual talents.
Know that no government and that no business owns those gifts, talents, any more than they own the children. To claim that education is for globalism is the same as to say that the children belong to the State. Any person who would even suggest that is evil!!!
Children must be allowed to live for their own dreams and not become the slave of someone elses dream; someone who perhaps is dreaming of some insane global empire. That is what Hitler did in Germany and we do not need to relive that crazy shit.
Officials described the incident as a small explosion in a lab inside the College of Pharmacy and Health Science building off Chamblee-Tucker Road.
Capt. Eric Jackson with DeKalb County Fire said students were cleaning a beaker with hydrochloric acid when it either dropped or exploded.
Two graduate students suffered cuts and burns. Both students were treated at the college and then taken to the hospital.
One student was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital and a second student was taken to Northside Hospital
I am not really sure what the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools accomplished by its political move to say that the education of children in Clayton County is inferior to all Schools they continue to give Accreditation. What was their motive to cause the 50,000 Clayton students to have trouble getting into some colleges and universities, or receiving scholarship money?
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Accreditors were particularly concerned that the board gave away its governing authority to superintendent John Thompson, Elgart said. In April, the board signed a contract that allowed the superintendent to violate board policies and circumvent the board, as long as it doesn’t violate state law.
“The current contract cedes authority to the superintendent,” Elgart said. “It not only violates standards for accreditation, but board policy and violates state law.”
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*Note: A contract that violates any law is not a legal contract.
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Obviously, this isn't good. Regardless of why that issue wasn't properly dealt with by the state or by the county; exactly why does that mean that the students of Clayton County should be told that their education is inferior to all other schools to the degree they should not be allowed into colleges.
How Governor Purdue is handling this situation should send a chill through all state school districts. It is similar to Russia sending tanks into the Nation of Georgia because they don't like the elected government of the Nation of Georgia. Our Governor Purdue moves to take over the Clayton County School System, kicks out the elected school board, and calls for new elections because he doesn't approve of the School Board the people previously elected. Isn't Democracy in Communist America a wonderful thing. : -( Governor Purdue himself has said he wants laws to make it easier to do the same thing to other School Districts.
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School officials can regain accreditation if they show before Sept. 1, 2009 that have met all the mandates. If successful, accreditation would be restored and would be retroactive to Sept. 1, 2008. If they aren’t successful, the school system would have to start the accreditation process from the beginning, which likely would take about three years.
That means that if Clayton meets the mandates by May, this year’s seniors could graduate with an accredited diploma. Already, juniors and seniors will be able to maintain Hope scholarships because of legislation signed earlier this year by the governor.
School officials have 10 days to file an appeal, but will have to show that SACS was incorrect and they have met all the mandates.
County Commission Chairman Eldrin Bell said he and Thompson are already laying out a strategy to meet the mandates by this spring.
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This kind of politics does not belong in our educational system. The Federal Government needs to be restricted from say in the system. The state government needs to be restricted from say in the system. Accreditation boards need to be abolished.
States should focus on libraries and text books and software and teachers and tutors and other resources to give every person an opportunity to learn; but to whether a child takes advantage should be left to the parents and the child. Learning is a life time thing and the system needs to be redesigned to better serve all Americans throughout their life.
Diplomas and Certifications need to be based on test to gauge actual qualifications for x, y, or z or to help a person gauge to whether they are ready for the next stage of learning what is needed to become qualified for x, y, or z. Employers need to base hiring not on bogus Diplomas and Certifications but on their own test to gauge what they are looking for in an employee.
I am not talking about socially bias testing or esoteric test that have little to do with testing qualifications for anything. I am talking about test to benefit people with skills and not bogus test to use politics to handicap people from receiving higher education or employment.
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I think what the governor and the accreditation board has done in the case of Clayton County is politics of the most dirty kind. It does not help the children of Clayton County. It hurts the children of Clayton County. Perhaps I am not aware of all the facts and there might be an argument to justify what has been done. I just don't see it.
Kind of reminds me of a South Park episode where the kids got confused by their sex ed teachers and ended up with the boys and girls at war. The message being that some topics are best handled by parents who know what their children are best ready to understand. And with the message also being that some parents had just as soon pass the buck on to someone else rather than communicating with their children on certain subjects.
But as provocative as the headline might sound, what England is talking about doing is simply beginning the process of helping children to become more self aware but not really teach other things until the children are older and better able to understand.
Britain has among the highest teen pregnancy rates in Europe, with government figures showing that about 39,000 girls under age 18 became pregnant in 2006, the year for which the most recent figures are available. More than 7,000 of those girls were younger than 16.
Pop Science BS on Spanking
Article: Early Spankings Make for Aggressive Toddlers, Study Shows
Remarks and Opinions:
- I in no way wish to appear to advocate the "spanking" of a one year old. No person should ever hit a child in anger. However, correctve "taps" may be necessary in some cases.
- But what is the main problem with this bit of pop science? It does not take into account that a child that is already aggressive may be more likely to encounter some sort of corrective discipline. The study assumes children come into this world blank lumps of clay to be molded and that is stupid.
- "Less is known why spanking could inhibit cognitive development. One possibility is that parents who spank are less likely to use reasoning with their children, something that's good for development," Gershoff said. There again the pop science attempts to establish A causes B without actually proving B wasn't there to begin with and may result in greater frustration by a parent. (And again, let me make clear, frustration by a parent does not excuse mistreating a child. Never react to a child's behavior because of your own state of mind.)
- But BullShit Pop Science should not be used to prevent a parent from teaching a child right from wrong with a mix of talking and proper discipline. There are times a young child needs to be tapped. There are times when an older child may deserve a spanking.
- Probably the most troubling part of the pop science bullshit is that it automatically labels aggressive behavior as totally undesirable. Is it really desirable to raise a child in a virtually empty room where they will not get in trouble and abandon them in front of a TV Set in that room. That may be the proper way to raise a non aggressive child to behave as a couch potato in the classroom but is that really what any parent or educator wants???
- Of course there needs to be balance in everything. But it is much better for a parent to teach a child right from wrong with discipline, using which ever method that works best for that child, than for that child to grow up to be a statistic in America's Prison System.
In a classroom where the school is not allowed to physically punish children, the alternative is usually having to call the law in to take the troubled child away. That is the path where the "don't ever spank" mentality leads. That is the real world and not some mindless pie in the sky Pop Science Study.
Both the article and the so called study are biased to an opinion that is not proven. Again, let me make clear, I am not advocating use of spanking as a first resort. It should never be the first resort. But any study that would suggest to a parent that they should never spank a child or in anyway equate that with child abuse is pop science that is outside the realm of reality. A parent who allows their children to run totally wild are not only guilty of child abuse but society abuse.
The following is an example of the development of public schools in the Ozarks.
Public Schools in the Ozarks, 1920-40 By William D. Baker
Below is a Separate bit of information on the movement for Compulsory Public Education.
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What is interesting is if you consider that from the very beginning the elite, even in the colleges, actually opposed the public education system. Kind of odd to think that it was the KKK that pushed the movement for Compulsory Public Education even as the Federal Government opposed it. So one has to ask when one looks at the evolution of the public school system and how badly it is failing, if when the Federal Government basically hijacked the Local Public School System if it was really to help the poor and middle class or if it was to intentionally create a failed system.
Contrary to what you might think, the School System of the 1950's to 1980's, with exception for certain areas and groups was better than what we have today. Just as there is a real fear that what the Federal Government wants to do to Healthcare is to actually harm people, maybe all you have to do is look at the Federal Intrusion into the Public Education System to understand why that fear is valid.