05.10
30-year veteran teacher and former LMS graduation coach Karen Stoker is going to retire (again) after this school year. But she’s not done with education. Wednesday she announced plans to run for Walker School Board seat 1. Her only declared opponent so far is Cleveland TN school psychologist Dennis Wilkerson.
Tuesday a 10-year-old boy from Middle GA got in trouble at school, so he left. And hasn’t been seen since.
Some are beginning to speculate, as usually they do, that he’s been abducted. There’s a possibility of that, but likely he’s hiding out somewhere or fell in a hole. Prayerfully he’s OK and will be home again before you read this.
Five days after cutting dozens of teaching positions, Walker County Schools has posted new job openings. Wondering if any of these overlap with what was cut.
If none of the positions being hired for overlap with ones just cut, it’s possible they were cutting out unneeded people in certain subjects and wanting to add people in other subject areas where they’re needed.
If these new job postings are for positions where people were let go last week, then they were either cutting out higher paid teachers to save money, cutting out some who weren’t “performing” as desired (which doesn’t seem to be the case), or they’re making room for somebody’s friends.
At least two of the jobs listed are because the employees are taking other positions. Also the first three positions on the page were posted before last week. Two of them are from March. The rest (four teachers, asst. principal, and counselor) were added Tuesday and Wednesday.
ajc.com, 05/09/12: “On his first day in office, Gov. Nathan Deal signed a lobbyist gift ban for state employees, but 16 months later, dozens of officials have taken thousands of dollars worth of tickets, meals and travel from special interests.”
Summerville’s city council considers dropping financial support for Chattooga’s Chamber of Commerce. They get about as much from theirs as we get from ours, which doesn’t seem to be very much.
The Augusta Chronicle, 05/05/12: “The state of Georgia is trying to make sure there are plenty of opportunities for graduating physicians as a way of addressing its doctor shortage.”
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