Walker County Schools has released an update on construction progress at Saddle Ridge school north of Rock Spring, along with a preliminary map for redistricting once the new K-8th school opens. The school is promised for this fall, but insiders think it’ll be more like Winter Break before classes can begin there.
The map accompanying this article is incomplete and unlabeled, making it almost useless. Final decisions about redistricting the county and changing bus routes will be made at a special School Board meeting tomorrow night. A “town hall” type meeting for parents and citizens will be held at a later date, possibly after the end of the school year – but that meeting will be more for distributing information about changes already made than about getting input from interested parties.
The meeting and any final changes will be posted here as soon as they become known.
Pippa-Hall Jackson, the most recent prisoner killed after a stay at Hays Prison, sent his mother a letter saying he didn’t expect to survive long behind bars. Now his family is asking if Department of Corrections employees followed policies that could have kept the 19-year-old convict from being murdered.
Last year Georgia paid out more than $300,000 in overtime to Hays Prison employees because of widespread staff shortages. As the year went on, more and more guards quit due to conditions at the prison. Even now they’re short staff; offering $26,000 a year starting pay isn’t enticing many to sign up.
The above article was on the front page of Sunday’s Times Free Press.. After the break on page A10 they quoted something said here on the LU blog last week:
“A local blogger recently mocked the advertised salary, writing on a popular website: ‘You, too, can get stabbed with a piece of broken window frame for only $26k a year.'”
The paper didn’t cite this blog by name or link to it, but nice to know LU is considered “popular” among Chattanooga newspaper reporters.
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