Clayco Schools Will Fail

beachbum129 wrote:

Sadly, it is every adult living in Clayton County who bears the responsibility for the insanity surrounding the Board of Education. The members were, after all, elected to their positions. Those who voted for them and those who chose not to vote at all, should have some sense of shame. They probably don't. I trust real estate values will drop substantially .... allowing the adults to at least feel some pain. It may take years before good parents elect to live in Clayton County.
The real shame, of course, is that kids have to suffer for the insanity of the adults. God help em.
Just wonder if the adults in Clayton County have any remote idea of what a joke they represent to the rest of this state?

So by your reasoning, every adult in the USA is to blame for the mess this nation is in???? Some people that live in Clayton voted and not for the ones that are on the board now. As for the decline in home values, this is not just a Clayton County problem. Values have dropped nationally. The posters on here just kill me with their better/smarter than you attitude and how they would not put up with this mess in Clayton County. What about the messes in your own county? Country? Just what are you doing that is so right? No one on this forum has posted any real suggestions or ideas so I guess if it was to happen in your area you would be in the same boat as we are, no answers.

Nelson wrote:

<quoted text>Redneck living in "the sticks"?
Last time I looked Marietta, GA was anything BUT the sticks.

Hey ever heard of ISP Location dont think that because of the ISP listing,that's where someone lives. HAH HAH HAH. Or did they not teach that in your school or college

I should have seen this coming way back in 1994 when I moved into Clayton County to be close to Ft Gillem before I retired. I did not really get it until 1996 when all my neighbors began leaving in U-Haul convoys, warning me to run for the hills. By the time I retired in 1998 it was too late. I have sat and watched this county go from being a respectable place to raise the kids to seeing prostitutes walking the street at night. The local CVS and Circle K stores being held up routinely, and swarms of county police and the sheriff's dept sweeping neighborhoods for gangs and Drugs on a weekly basis. Its no wonder the crime rate in Atlanta has dropped. The mayor raised the taxes in the city so high that they all moved to the burbs and setup shop there. You have to go 50 miles away from Atlanta to be considered in a SAFE Zone anymore. The Ghetto Transport (Marta and CTran) now provide Drug and Thug transportation deep into the heart of suburbia. I now see more foreclosure signs driving around Clayton than new housing development signs that used to litter the sides of the road.

Housing prices are dropping like a rock in Clayton County, Foreclosure's are rising, All kinds of crime are on the rise, The Sheriff and the County Police Chief are at each others throats (The Police Chiefs Son was just busted, found with stolen property in his car), and the school board has now destroyed a school system that used to be pretty good.

So what do you do? Arm yourself, put in a cellular alarm system, put in a taller fence, and get two Doberman Pinchers that will eat anything that comes over the fence.(Don't knock it, it's worked so far.)

same thing happenned to East Point in the 60's Cut your losses and run
because the next thing that will happen is that you will get sued for trying to protect what is yours

has anyone thought to ask if any of these so called board members have childern ,and if they do where they are going to school. and yes clayton county was a nice place to live and work at one time, i dont own a home right now... maybe soon i will buy onr there and when all of this turmoil blows over i can be able to sell if for big profits . just wondering thats all

tyria wrote:

I HAVE ONE Wish IT IS FOR school broad TO LEAVE CLAYTON COUNTY NEVER TO come BACK ..........THIS COUNTY IS A BIG Joke TO GA SCHOOL SYSTEM.OTHER COUNTY DON'T WON'T US IN There COUNTY.......THEY SAID NO FAYETTE AND HENRY COUNTY......GIVE THE CHILDREN A EDUCATION....FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO LEARN..........let them learn, dont stop them from learning..........like going to college.....

It's probably the surrounding counties don't want trouble kids in their neighborhood bringing crime with them. I wouldn't want them either if I was them. As far as I'm concerned the voters are partially at fault for voting them in.

Sherlock wrote:

Hopefully this will serve as the WAKE UP call for voters in Georgia. Maybe this will teach people the importance of voting for the best qualified candidates, not for any other reason.
It's also a shame it took many of these parents so long to get involved in their children's education. I've read teacher after teacher from this school system talk about the complacent, non-involved parents they have been dealing with...until recently. Not ALL parents there, just many. I hope the recently energized parents stay tuned into their kids education after the dust on this settles.

Clayton County is just like Atlanta. The only qualification to get elected is to be black.

fleeclaytoncounty wrote:

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It's probably the surrounding counties don't want trouble kids in their neighborhood bringing crime with them. I wouldn't want them either if I was them. As far as I'm concerned the voters are partially at fault for voting them in.

Neighboring Henry County has had murders by high school kids already.

Surrounded in Da Hood wrote:

I should have seen this coming way back in 1994 when I moved into Clayton County to be close to Ft Gillem before I retired. I did not really get it until 1996 when all my neighbors began leaving in U-Haul convoys, warning me to run for the hills. By the time I retired in 1998 it was too late. I have sat and watched this county go from being a respectable place to raise the kids to seeing prostitutes walking the street at night. The local CVS and Circle K stores being held up routinely, and swarms of county police and the sheriff's dept sweeping neighborhoods for gangs and Drugs on a weekly basis. Its no wonder the crime rate in Atlanta has dropped. The mayor raised the taxes in the city so high that they all moved to the burbs and setup shop there. You have to go 50 miles away from Atlanta to be considered in a SAFE Zone anymore. The Ghetto Transport (Marta and CTran) now provide Drug and Thug transportation deep into the heart of suburbia. I now see more foreclosure signs driving around Clayton than new housing development signs that used to litter the sides of the road.
Housing prices are dropping like a rock in Clayton County, Foreclosure's are rising, All kinds of crime are on the rise, The Sheriff and the County Police Chief are at each others throats (The Police Chiefs Son was just busted, found with stolen property in his car), and the school board has now destroyed a school system that used to be pretty good.
So what do you do? Arm yourself, put in a cellular alarm system, put in a taller fence, and get two Doberman Pinchers that will eat anything that comes over the fence.(Don't knock it, it's worked so far.)

Clayton County used to be very nice and safe too. Morrow City schools were tops in the state, on par with Cobb County.
There were meddling liberal groups in Atlanta who were advising black groups to move to white neighborhoods to improve their kids' education. Clayton County was immediately next to Atlanta and easy to move to. The mall and surrounding shopping centers provided minimum wage jobs and easy work. Clayton County went almost completely black and the school system went black with it. The school board turned black and fired the very competent and experienced white superintendent and replaced him with a series of inept blacks. Clayton County school performance plunged. Now they're going to lose accreditation. Those meddling liberals are long gone, oblivious to their failure.

Well at least they can't blame the white man for the total screw ups in Clayton county since there aren't any left. It just shows their intelligence and ignorance. Vote black no matter what. Once I flee this dump of a county I will laugh my whole way out and never look back.

Damn....i know i better graduate on time and go to college cuz i would hate to change school in the middle of the year. I don't understand why the selfish idiots on the school board don't just resign and let someone who know what they are doing and someone who actually care about the kids in clayton county take over. Shit THEY KIDS PROBABLY DON'T EVEN GO TO A CLAYTON COUNTY SCHOOL SO THEY HAVE NOTHING TO LOOSE!!

Harry White McDonough Ga wrote:

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Ok, blame the Governor and not the school board. As stated, the Governor is limited by state law on what he can do, so he made the liaisons available, but they were not utilized. Ms. Strong of the school board said that they waited for the liaisons to come to them to help them to meet. Well, you know what, they should have been calling, e-mailing and sending any form of communications for the liaison to help. They were there to help, but the CCBOE basically refused it. Instead, they continued with their own agenda, held meetings that violated State laws (closed door) and then hired a person to lead the schools that is probably not qualified to do so. The board members are a collective group of fools, blow hards and to be honest with you all, the way they have acted, they are nothing but a bunch of criminals who probably can be prosecuted. If/when Clayton County loses their accreditation, they can blame themselves (CCBOE). When so many people that have been brought in to try to help have resigned or left, it is not usually their fault. As we have seen, the CCBOE is not willing to work with anyone. They think very highly of themselves. Oh and Backwoods, I was a graduate from the Clayton County School system in 1976 and it was a great and competent system lead by qualified and competent people, not the clowns that are in there now.

Clayton County WAS a good place to live and HAD a good school system too. That all changed when the county changed color and fired the longtime school superintendant BECAUSE HE WAS WHITE. The new school board instituted their racist agenda that emphasized what they called MINORITY courses. That was a code word for anti white. Instead of focusing on quality education the corrupt and inept and racist school board sent the schools into the sewer. The lowest school system in the state and now they will become the first school system ever to lose accreditation in Georgia.

If where ever you move the crime goes up and schools go down, then maybe you are the problem.

fleeclaytoncounty wrote:

Well at least they can't blame the white man for the total screw ups in Clayton county since there aren't any left. It just shows their intelligence and ignorance. Vote black no matter what. Once I flee this dump of a county I will laugh my whole way out and never look back.

Me and mine are still here. If I have to leave, I will not be laughing, this is my home.
I have been here before this, during this and hopefully after this.

Now is the time to buy homes in Clayton County real cheap. As long as you don't have kids in school the school system isn't a factor for you. The average selling price for a house in Clayton County is now $120,000. If white retirees move back to Clayton then whites can retake the county and put it back on the right track.

Gentrification wrote:

Now is the time to buy homes in Clayton County real cheap. As long as you don't have kids in school the school system isn't a factor for you. The average selling price for a house in Clayton County is now $120,000. If white retirees move back to Clayton then whites can retake the county and put it back on the right track.

You are so right. A lovely house down the street from me was listed as over a $100,000, is now listed for $49,900. We live in a nice neighborhood. Clayton has so many good things going for it if the politics get straighten out it will be as great as ever.

what family home, i cant sell my own house!
this didnt just start
1996 olympics cleaned up atlanta and relocated their poverty to cc!!!
i was there and helpless to see it coming
those children are now teens and adults and causing lots of trouble
lets keep supporting teen pregnancy
lets keep paying people to sit at home and do nothing
thats america 2008

Tory One wrote:

house prices fell 18% in last 3 months!!!!!!!!!! in clayton county and people cannot sell family homes at all

i just reduced my house by almost $30,000
you are right
no kids in school
low taxes
beautiful, quiet neighborhood
great place to live
close to atlanta
if the media would stop making it the harlem of atlanta
the media fuels this stuff
i never had any trouble in 15 years in cc
there are great buys
it has to come back
look at hapeville, it came back!

dixiedarling wrote:

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You are so right. A lovely house down the street from me was listed as over a $100,000, is now listed for $49,900. We live in a nice neighborhood. Clayton has so many good things going for it if the politics get straighten out it will be as great as ever.

former resident of cc wrote:

what family home, i cant sell my own house!
this didnt just start
1996 olympics cleaned up atlanta and relocated their poverty to cc!!!
i was there and helpless to see it coming
those children are now teens and adults and causing lots of trouble
lets keep supporting teen pregnancy
lets keep paying people to sit at home and do nothing
thats america 2008
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Atlanta drove people out in droves due to their poor schools, corrupt city government, and high crime. The wave came south to Forest Park and Morrow and Jonesboro. Liberal groups had been advising black groups to get their kids into white schools to improve their educations. Morrow City schools were tops in the state. School performance changed immediately as soon as the student population changed. Morrow schools and Clayton County schools sank to the bottom. When blacks became the majority voters the school board became black, the county administration became black, the crime rate went through the roof and corruption went sky high. Now, Clayton County is about to become the first school district in the state to lose accreditation, a feat that even the sorry Atlanta schools did not suffer. All of the minimum wage jobs around Southlake Mall will keep Clayton County's population black and keep the county schools sub par. The black population brought stupid students, crime, and corruption with them when they came beginning in 1998.
Your comment about Atlanta cleaning up is quite incorrect. They still have crime and corruption, and black racists, and poor city services, and failing schools, and a black majority. All of that and more just spilled over into adjoining Clayton County like an incurable cancer.

former resident of cc wrote:

i just reduced my house by almost $30,000
you are right
no kids in school
low taxes
beautiful, quiet neighborhood
great place to live
close to atlanta
if the media would stop making it the harlem of atlanta
the media fuels this stuff
i never had any trouble in 15 years in cc
there are great buys
it has to come back
look at hapeville, it came back!
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Hapeville never went anywhere to come back from. Hapeville was always a railroad town with decay on both sides of the tracks. It's only advantage is it's proximity to Hartsfield Airport and the big city of Atlanta. There is still decay there and it is landlocked to prevent growth. The schools suck and city budget stays nearly at bankruptcy. The development of the old Ford property is years away from completion and the possibility of Delta closing down puts Hapeville's future in the unpredictable range.

Don't blame the news media for Clayton County's disaster. The media is only reporting what they see and hear and it's all bad news.

Both Hapeville and Clayton County are good locations for people without children in school and who can insulate themselves from crime by doing like Buckhead did and build walls and security gates around their communities.