In a memo to the Decatur school board, Superintendent Phyllis Edwards responds to the recent AJC article written about the use of portable classrooms in Decatur this year.

She introduces it in her regular note to the board thusly…

I have also attached a response to the article that appeared in the AJC; at the prompting of a few of our own parents. It rehashed the portable controversy even though individual time and board time has been used repeatedly to explain the reasoning. Just for the record, there are no extravagant furnishings. No office has black leather; most of the chairs are some type of vinyl. I do think it is a shame that of all the things we could talk about in CSD, which have been real wins for the system and would have made a great opening day story, which, by the way, no one covered; the newspaper chooses to run a weak story to make us look bad to the general public. I was not interviewed at all for this piece.

Ah, I’ve been wondering how this story originated.  And now I wonder, if the parents did push it, what was the purpose?   As I’ve stated previously, we’re going to need to redistrict this year anyway, so why push a story about trailers now?

What was the endgame?  Because in terms of coming to any sort of reconciliation, this article instead seems to have divided folks further.  And sure that makes for a great story, but heck if it’s good for the community.