Terry Abbott
Terry Abbott
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The quickest way to earn a ticket out of Jones High School and into detention is to hurt one of those students from New Orleans. They've made it very clear to the Jones High School students that the children from New Orleans are our guests. We must treat them with all the dignity and respect we can.
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Mr. Rios used taxpayer-funded school equipment to copy and distribute to children an offensive statement. The principal exercised his authority to remove Mr. Rios as junior varsity baseball coach, and it certainly was an appropriate decision.
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We want to make sure that our testing process is absolute integrity. Parents need to know that the academic results are real. They need to know that children are learning.
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We must continue to match resources with the needs of our children. Our children deserve the best education we can give them, and it's very important that we make absolutely the best use of these resources we have available.
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We're looking at whether we can and should disperse some of the children into different schools.
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They've made it very clear to the Jones High School students that the children from New Orleans are our guests. We must treat them with all the dignity and respect we can.
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We understand the concern of the parents. Our first concern, of course, was the safety of the children. When TSU informed us that the building was dangerous, we moved very quickly to relocate the children. Officials here have worked many hours since then to find a permanent home for MCTC and have had many discussions with parents to keep them updated on the search.
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What's at stake is reputation of the school district and the learning of the children. Those are very important things and we can't leave that to chance.
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We have families who are under duress from what happened with the storm. It is natural that a situation like that is going to cause some tension.
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We're trying to work with the kids to show them the right ways to do this and to keep them in school.
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If they get more than that, they don't get credit for their classes, so it could affect the promotion of students from grade to grade, and ultimately their ability to graduate on time.
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The principal has the ultimate authority for a school-sponsored event.
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We're having more patrols outside of the schools in the morning bell time and afternoon bell time, and also during cafeteria time -- lunch time.
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Our police department keeps a pretty close watch with their gang-intervention officers, and the police chief (John Blackburn) said we have not seen an increase in gang activity. Kids still fight like they do anywhere in the country, but that doesn't mean it's a gang-related issue.