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is this principle from up north?

Steve

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HENRY COUNTY, GA -- Out of jail and doing community service, Clifford "T.I." Harris made a trip to Woodland Middle School in Henry County on March 5,

“Guess who was at school today? T.I., the rapper.” Last year, Harris served a one-year sentence on federal weapons charges for possession of machine guns and silencers. His criminal history dates back to 1998.“

Tom Myers was surprised when his daughter came home and told him that T.I. had been the speaker at the assembly on anti bullying. Myers told 11Alive News that had he known T.I. was speaking, he would not have allowed his daughter to attend. So he wrote an e-mail to Woodland's principal, Dr. Terry Oatts.

"The first e-mail I sent to him was to ask that from now on we have some kind of parental input whether or not a speaker is appropriate. If I don't want my child to be there, just give me the right to opt them out," Myers said.

Myers also wrote in the e-mail, "How about next time, let him mow the grass or pick up the trash around the school grounds? If the kids see that they might understand that what he did was wrong." “In the future, if T.I. or any other convicted felon needs to perform community service, ask for parental permission to allow our children to be exposed to these questionable individuals.”

In e-mails obtained by 11Alive News, Principle Oatts replied in his e-mail, "I thought about asking a guy who snorted cocaine and got arrested for DUI when he was 30 to come and speak to our kids, but President George W. Bush was not available."

In another e-mail from Oatts to Myers, Oatts said: “Mr. Harris has never been convicted of homicide. We would not be able to adequately staff our states general assembly, our U.S. Congress or the executive branch of our government using your apparent standards."
http://www.11alive.com/news/news_story.aspx?storyid=143138&catid=40

sad when a principle replies to a parents concerns with a snide comment bashing Bush...
 

Faster horses

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He couldn't defend his actions so he tried to excuse it by
talking about someone
who wasn't there to defend himself. And these people are running
the schools. :shock: What's that tell ya? :x
 

Larrry

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And yet even after seeing this Oatts fella and his actions some will wonder why our education system is failing.

The answer is in Mr Oatts himself
 

loomixguy

Well-known member
Simple...the monkeys are running the zoo, causing trouble and flinging crap all over the place. I truly believe that ALL school administrators and principals should take a minimum 50% pay cut. My Daddy used to say "You gotta be worth ten thousand a year before you are worth one hundred thousand a year."
 

hypocritexposer

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Faster horses said:
He couldn't defend his actions so he tried to excuse it by
talking about someone
who wasn't there to defend himself. And these people are running
the schools. :shock: What's that tell ya? :x

These people are running the Country. There is a leadership problem from the top down.

What does a community organizer do? What he does not do is organize a community. What he organizes are the resentments and paranoia within a community, directing those feelings against other communities, from whom either benefits or revenge are to be gotten, using whatever rhetoric or tactics will accomplish that purpose.

Thomas Sowell
 
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