Comments on: DeKalb Schools Could Lose Accreditation

By: alm

alm — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:47:35 +0000

This is the main reason I moved to Decatur last summer. My taxes are double but worth every penny. DeKalb is broken and I think the only way to get it back on track is for the governor to replace the BOE. The Palace needs to be cleared out too.

By: At Home in Decatur

At Home in Decatur — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 19:48:27 +0000

Yeah, this is about growth due to refugees from DeKalb County, not annexees.

By: Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 19:32:33 +0000

Wait, I may have mixed up my threads. Thread-mixing is dangerous.

By: Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 19:30:39 +0000

Your argument is straight from Yogi Berra’s songbook: “Nobody goes there, it’s too crowded.” Annexing commercial land is not setting the school district down a path to mediocrity. Period.

By: At Home in Decatur

At Home in Decatur — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:27:25 +0000

Yup, this needs to be fixed and in a substantive way, not by just hateful tirades against “government schools” or by throwing up a few charter schools. If DCSS cannot function for its students, do what needs to be done, don’t just make political hay out of it. I don’t understand the anti-public education movement of the last few decades. My Republican but not Tea Party elder relatives used to be totally into the mantra of good public education, good citizenship, civic responsibility, melting pot, God and country. Private schools, other than parochial schools, were for wealthy liberals!