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macca
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Posted: May 20th, 2006 02:39 pm |
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| DToney and gotobeme: It sounds as though you both have kids at the high school, and you have also information and ideas.... Have you shared these with NWHS administration and PTSA? Have you offered help and they turned you down (re: monitoring halls, etc).
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DToney
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Posted: May 20th, 2006 03:38 pm |
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gotobeme wrote: NW is so big and its population more than exceeds normalacy. There is also projected growth next year with no relief at least for a year and the amount of relief will not be substantial enough to meet continued growth in the NW area.
I've quoted you to substantiate my point of the primary problem with NWHS... the overcrowded population. For a school that was designed for much less... NWHS is currently at 3 times its capacity... and to "make-do" with what we have... Guilford County keeps throwing mobile units at us.... a fix I for one am not satisfied with. Getting back to the safety of our children, and the need for a better facility, and to best utilize our tax dollars, the ultimate fix would be a new building... probably on the same site if at all possible so we can utilize the new wing. That however, will probably not happen anytime soon. As I previously stated, Guilford County don't have any plans in the budget to even consider alleviating this problem. From what I read in this week's Observer, the county commissioners are holding the purse strings so tight, the schools are finding it hard to operate in "normal" conditions without any projected growth.
My idea is for us to get a letter writing campaign... write the county commissioners and copy the school board so everyone knows how badly we need funding... at this rate, we'll never be able to effectively house our students, nor attract good teachers, to an area where they not only feel threatened by safety of the student activity, but also the safety of the structure in which they are housed.
I talk to my child every day... there is not a day that goes by that she don't tell me how nasty the dressing area is in the gym... how badly overcrowded the halls are between classes, such that there are people running over each other... couple that with drug use/abuse and you have the possibility of some "stoned" kid that goes whacko!
I'm all for cameras... I just wish there were some way to best utilize the money in a newer, cleaner, safer facility. We definitely need to do SOMETHING because doing nothing has gotten us in the predictiment we are in now...
Last edited on May 20th, 2006 03:39 pm by DToney
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DToney
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Posted: May 20th, 2006 04:07 pm |
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| I am sorry to say that my working in Winston and getting home so late every day... that I am unable to volunteer, myself... as for the letter writing, I have inserted a link for the contact info for each of the commissioners.... http://gcms0004.co.guilford.nc.us/commissioners/index.php for whoever wishes to join me in getting us better funding. I would not care if my house taxes were raised $20+ dollars per year... it would be a small price to pay for getting what our community needs... for anyone who does not have children in school that would balk at higher taxes... consider it bettering the community in which we live. I will attach the contact list... apparently our commissioner serves District 3, but it would not hurt to copy all on the correspondence so they will know our thoughts.
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dmauser
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Posted: Jun 2nd, 2006 02:55 pm |
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| The PTSA at NWMS did not have anything to do with the cameras. The school paid for it out of capital money. The cost was around $18,000. The first week, they were able to exonerate one student suspected of vandelism by watching the cameras. They moniter the halls, and commons.
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DToney
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Posted: Jun 14th, 2006 10:51 pm |
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| Thanks for the u/d dmauser...
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