Morning Metro: DeKalb Contemplating Cutting School Days, Farm Burger Opening in Dunwoody, and World Economic History
Decatur Metro | June 21, 2012
- DeKalb contemplates eliminating 10 more school days [AJC]
- Decatur Gators enjoying the summer [Be Active Decatur]
- Farm Burger opening in Dunwoody next to a Morelli’s [TNT]
- TSPLOST statements examined by Politifact [AJC]
- Avondale has one of nation’s highest concentrations of same-sex female couples [WaPo]
- The economic history of the last 2,000 years in one graph [Atlantic]
JP Morgan chart courtesy of the Atlantic
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Um, I know this is a copy-editing nitpick, but “same-sex female couples”? The squad squad would hope so…
The Avondale conservatives must be horrified. How many for sale signs do you think we’ll see as a result?
Is Avondale considered to be conservative? It doesn’t strike me as such.
Anyway, to tie two of DM’s links together (and to rub it in), the Avondale Tidal Waves handed the Decatur Gators a resounding defeat this week at the Avondale pool!
Avondale has a higher % of same-sex female couples than Decatur? Huh. OK. I wouldn’t have predicted that.
“Avondale has a higher % of same-sex female couples than Decatur? Huh. OK. I wouldn’t have predicted that.”
My guess is that it’s because fewer female couples have children and are therefore unwilling to pay the taxes that go along with being in the Decatur school system. Then again, I’m not sure how much difference there is between the two anymore. Tucker also seems to have a good-sized population of lesbian couples.
“DeKalb contemplates eliminating 10 more school days”
Awesome. They’re doing their best to balance the school budget deficit by destroying the reputation of their school system and driving away any teachers who can find employment elsewhere, helping depress property values further, which reduces the tax revenue that funds the school system. Let the death spiral commence!
It slays me that Dekalb’s answer to their budget crisis has so far been to cut resources (and now school days) from the kids. It makes absolutely no sense to punish the students for the boards oversights (just realized they had $12 million less than they thought they did? what?)
On a lighter, more fun summer note, Go Gators!
Me too. It’s not even my school system and it’s making me so mad that kids have to suffer because the adults cannot behave. Or add, or subtract, or keep promises, or model frugal behavior, or keep their fingers (and relatives) out of the cookie jar. You know, if kids have to pass the CRCT, wouldn’t it make sense to have some kind of test of proficiency for school board members and administrators? I’m pretty sure we all know some that wouldn’t pass.
I know we’ve already been through the SPLOST debate, and while this is not a new development, it’s something that wasn’t widely publicized, and many may not be aware of.
Public ‘in the dark’ on T-SPLOST $1B
http://www.ajc.com/news/transportation-referendum/public-in-the-dark-1459227.html
“the local 1 billion.” I wish every time a writer used billion it was expressed in numbers. 1,000,000,000 kind of gets your attention and is not easily confused with 1 million, ey?