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Will you demand equity for South Fulton or just stay on the plantation?
This Week's Definitions
Hypocrisy
is defined as
·
an expression of agreement that is not
supported by real conviction
·
insincerity by virtue of pretending to have
qualities or beliefs that you do not really have
SPLOST
stands for special-purpose local-option sales tax
It’s ironic that when
there are suggestions by Fulton County School System staff of cutting back on Sandy Springs school projects promised
in the SPLOST II vote because of a budget shortfall,
Gail Dean the school board president
representing Sandy Springs goes ballistic.
But it’s OK to let South
County Projects like Westlake HS go unfunded that were promised in the very
same SPLOST II vote at the polls.
They continue to fool
around on not funding the rebuild of
Westlake HS – built in the 1960’s, but they’ll make a way to fix up the
elementary schools in Sandy Springs
and North Fulton.
This is why we need to
demand they approve the
lease/purchase plan to fund our schools - now that they’ve spent all the
SPLOST money building schools in North Fulton, we need creative financing of
this tried and true technique. We also need to make sure they don’t switch
construction priorities and slip in yet another North County school in ahead of us.
They
wouldn’t have as much of a budget shortfall if they sold the old Milton HS for
the $25 million they planned to sell it for. Now instead after they built a
new
Milton High School;
they keeping the old Milton HS for enrichment programs for North Fulton
Students.
They have such zeal to
build schools in Sandy Springs;
they’ve threatened to seize the land from Weber, the first Jewish High School
in North Fulton that was going to break ground in weeks by using the power of
eminent domain.
AJC
Article: First Jewish high school to break ground soon
Read
Housing of Students to see the facts and learn about the lease / purchase
proposal.
The
majority of Board Material requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to view.
To those of you who are new to this struggle I know it sounds incredible, but
it’s true. Be sure to attend
board meetings to make sure we don’t get a knife in the back again.
Don’t complain about school overcrowding if you don’t do anything productive
about it!!
Psalm 26:4 “I do not sit with deceitful men, nor do I consort with hypocrites”
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