Petition for the August 1st Calendar

Seeing red, hopping mad.
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/ #317 Publicity

2011-02-23 01:01

I would cover it if I were a video reporter.

Especially given the results of the citizens Poll/Survey. That survey even took into account multiple votes per one IP address and bumped those down to 2, even though an IP may've been from a public location such as say, DD, Metanoya, Krystals, Starbucks, etc., and much more than 2 could have been legitimate. Even after bumping such votes down to only 2, it was an overwhelming "victory" to keep the balanced calendar, August 1 start date.

Had this been an election, it would have been a land-slide. This is a bread and butter type of story for local news. Results of Poll, Next the final tally of this petition, and then go to the 4, I shall call them dissenting board members because they are dissenters as far as we are concerned. Their lack of consideration for we the invested citizens of Cobb County, is blatant, and I'm sure we'd all like to know why they voted against, publicly.

This is COBB COUNTY-- and we parents and our kids, and our teachers, teacher/parents- make this district the high achieving district that it generally is.
That four board members chose to completely ignore most of our wishes, morally and ethically speaking, borders on criminal behaviour. Their actions are anti-American, and most certainly anti-democratic.

The Cobb County school board has shown us that this is about four morally bankrupt, deaf and blind, board members and their political shenanigans. Four board members who do more harm than good, and make decisions based upon nothing that matters to us, but only, to them selves, and those who stand to profit from such a decision. They have little to no regard, for what is best for the students, parents, teachers, administrators, and frankly, the performance and achievement of our children and young teens.

PARENTS, STUDENTS, TEACHERS, SUPPORT STAFF, ADMINISTRATORS ARE WHAT MAKE COBB COUNTY SCHOOLS OUTSTANDING IN THIS OTHERWISE ACADEMICALLY MEDIOCRE STATE. FOUR COBB COUNTY BOARD MEMBERS REALLY DON'T CARE THAT THIS IS IN FACT THE TRUTH, AND WHAT WE WANT DOES NOT MATTER TO THEM.