Ahmann’s behavior is inappropriate on this issue. The City Schools of Decatur need not join the list of Clayton County Schools, APS, or DeKalb County Schools. SACS accreditation is serious business.

It very well may not. But the fact that the tactics you take issue with, are unacceptable for everyone, except you, is odd.

There are obviously 2 sides to this story, and all your arguments have not all been illogical. But when you pepper your argument with personal attacks against he and his supporters, it sounds less issue oriented, and more like you have a personal ax to grind. Would you be this wound up about it, if it were any other member but him proposing this? I really don’t know.

“Move on” is a bit of a simplistic way to deal with a complex issue that isn’t considered settled by many. I would be interested in hearing your assessment of his the lease agreement. If it’s something that could benefit and save $ in the short or long run, it would be hard to argue with no matter who it comes from unless you dispute how he arrived at the numbers.

Interesting.

Either we are going to have a representative government or we are going to have mob rule. The duly elected representatives have made a decision. Move on.

There were, prior to the vote on the bell schedule, literally months of consideration of what should be declared the official start time for school. A decision was made. Live with it. There are other matters requiring the time and attention of the staff and the Board.

Mr. Ahmann ought to be smart enough to know that he will need at least a total of three votes to get what he says he wants, which is reconsideration of the bell schedule. He also knows he won’t get them. Why is he then resorting to publicly arguing with people he can just pick up the phone and have a chat? He is dong it to create a mob. Lord knows, if we’ve seen anything in Decatur we’ve seen that it’s pretty easy to whip up a mob of angry people who are worried about their children.

Someone cited somewhere else on this blog an online petition to reconsider the schedule. I haven’t looked today but I’ll bet it still has less than 200 signatories. Wow. Twenty-thousand people live in Decatur and less than 1 % have signed a petition asking to reconsider the Bell schedule at the high school. “But,” someone stated, “these are very involved people.” Ok; do they have extra priority than anyone else because of their involvement?

Mr. Ahmann is being a bully by trying to intimidate the other Board members and the Superintendent. It’s not the questions that make him a bully but rather it is the egotistical, aggressive way he goes about asking those questions.

And, yes, I did issue some personal attacks. I did some name calling, too. Neither of those things detract from what I am arguing about Mr. Ahmann and his behavior. The Board represents the City, collectively. They are limited in their individual powers. John is behaving like a petulant child.

And, again, I say, if you are supporting him in these actions you are sanctioning some very, very bad behavior – behavior you would not tolerate if YOU were sitting on that Board and he disagreed with you.