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zippitydoodah
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Posted: Jan 27th, 2007 12:11 pm |
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If a few people got tickets and the Highway Patrol would regularly patrol, maybe drivers would slow down through that area and yield to pedestrians.
Didn't the school zone speed limit (25 MPH) used to be in affect until something like 10 PM? That was changed sometime in the last few years. Why in the world would they change that? Kids cross the road all times of the day and after dark.
Ninjas dropping from the trees -- no please!!!!!!
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Posted: Feb 25th, 2007 03:35 am |
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Skiddles wrote: I'm also concerned for the students safety as similar scenarios have happened to me.
Another suggestion for safety is to establish an "order of crossing" (they may have one in place, I'm not sure)
- Stop completely at the crosswalk
- Look both ways
- Wait until traffic has stopped from either directions, or the road is clear. Pedestrians should give traffic enough time to see them and to come to a complete stop.
- Make contact / A signal of confirmation and thanks to the driver
- Then start to cross
I totally agree with you Skiddles!
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Posted: Feb 25th, 2007 07:02 pm |
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The highway patrol has enough to do on hwy.68 and the interstate. With only 4 on duty at a time kind of hard to be every where. Now if oak ridge had a town deputy as we do in Stokesdale the area could be a little better patrolled.
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Jim Flynt
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Posted: Feb 25th, 2007 07:34 pm |
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ff12 wrote: Now if oak ridge had a town deputy as we do in Stokesdale the area could be a little better patrolled.
Some Local Governments and their BIG $PENDING supporters seem to think there are NO problems in the NW that raising your taxes can't cure.
Last edited on Feb 25th, 2007 07:42 pm by Jim Flynt
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Posted: Mar 4th, 2007 12:34 am |
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we still do not have any tax and we have a deputy on duty plus regular coverage, seems like a good way to spend our money.
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Jim Flynt
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Posted: Mar 5th, 2007 03:27 pm |
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ff12 wrote: we still do not have any tax and we have a deputy on duty plus regular coverage, seems like a good way to spend our money.
THAT was the point I was trying to make too ff. GMTA.
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Steve Adkins
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Posted: Mar 5th, 2007 04:56 pm |
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Jim Flynt wrote: ff12 wrote: we still do not have any tax and we have a deputy on duty plus regular coverage, seems like a good way to spend our money.
THAT was the point I was trying to make too ff. GMTA.
I'll bite. What does GMTA mean?
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Posted: Mar 5th, 2007 05:21 pm |
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Steve Adkins wrote: I'll bite. What does GMTA mean?
Great Minds Think Alike.
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Posted: Mar 5th, 2007 05:51 pm |
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| or what the 80's guy says to his wife when he gets in a barfight- "Get My Trans Am!"
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Posted: Mar 8th, 2007 02:10 am |
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I didnt get gmta either, but I like bamas version , do we need a mullet to drive a T. A.
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Posted: Mar 8th, 2007 12:56 pm |
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| Ahem... Okay all you great minds, I hate to be the meanie, but don't make me pull out my "Off Topic" sign.
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Posted: Mar 19th, 2007 11:12 pm |
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Thank you, everyone, for showing your concern for this topic. I am one of the instructors at ORMA, but first of all, let me assure you that I value my safety, and never dare cross 150 without taking proper precautions (making sure my life insurance is paid in full, looking both ways, waiting 5 or 10 minutes for there to be a break in traffic, etc.)
The Academy is an 1853 institution trying to adapt to 21st century traffic. When it was built, there were probably 2 or 3 farmers clip-clopping past a day. Now, there's a 5:00 traffic jam at the intersection. Even when I started teaching there 8 years ago, traffic was not at the level it is now, due to all of the recent development.
All of your posts make excellent points about both instructors and students needing to do our part to ensure our own safety, as well as that of the motorists. It disturbs me that I and my coworkers are considered part of the problem, and I will bring this up with our administration. Certainly some discussion and reminders during staff meetings are in order.
I will also talk to them about training the students better about safety rules. You need to realize though, that we have students arriving year round from all over the world. I just got 2 new students last week, so safety procedures would need to be taught individually to each student as they arrive. Also, we are dealing with teenagers from age 12 to 18- and not always the most responsible group of teenagers at that. Their parents have sent them to us to teach their kids the rules and discipline they are (for some reason) unable to teach their own children at home. Apparently, some of the parents have failed to teach their children common sense.
The fact is, our uniforms are dark colored. It would not make sense to have the students doing sports, pushups and other physical activity in light colored uniforms. Adding reflective tape would probably make our uniforms too expensive. But that is a valid point, and if it is creating a safety hazard for the community, perhaps other options can be explored. We certainly could use some additional lighting and signage, but some of that may fall under the county or state jurisdiction, because it is a state highway. We will have to look into that.
Also, we do have students crossing the road at all hours of the day and night. They need to take their laundry to the quartermaster about 9:30 pm after evening study hall, and they often have away games and other events where they get back to campus well after dark. We need to extend the hours of our "school zone" time. We should probably make it from 5 or 6:00 am until 10 or 11:00 at night.
So thank you, everyone, for all of your comments and suggestions. If no one objects, I will share them with our administration, to see if we can get better procedures in place, and if there are any improvements we can do, on our part.
I do have to agree with the teacher who posted the original letter in the print version of the NWO however, because the drivers speeding through our school zone has gotten worse and worse every year. Drivers would never go 50 mph or more through the Oak Ridge Elementary zone (at least I hope they wouldn't), and no one even crosses there. Yet we have our entire student body, faculty and staff crossing all day long, and people drive like maniacs through our zone.
As far as dressing the students like ninjas, please don't give them any more crazy ideas! 
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Posted: Mar 20th, 2007 03:24 am |
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ORMA Booster wrote: So thank you, everyone, for all of your comments and suggestions. If no one objects, I will share them with our administration, to see if we can get better procedures in place, and if there are any improvements we can do, on our part.
Thanks for joining us ORMA Booster.
By all means, express our concern to your admin, there just cannot be enough attention to safety, this forum is pointing out that many people are concerned and don't way to see anyone from ORMA get injured.
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Posted: Mar 20th, 2007 03:47 am |
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Welcome to the forum ORMA booster! Thanks for joining the forum!
It's obvious that you are a caring teacher and we appreciate your willingness to share the ideas posted here with the ORMA admin.
It seems to me that some of those children who weren't taught common sense by their parents have grown up to be motorists who don't watch out for pedestrians. 
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Posted: Mar 20th, 2007 12:23 pm |
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ORMA Booster -
Thanks so much for joining the forum, and for your insight on this problem. I think it would be great if the academy, the town, the DOT, the Highway Patrol, local citizens, drivers, etc. could work on this together and hopefully come up with some answers.
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