Terry Abbott
Terry Abbott
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We have some really small schools that are so small that they can't even afford counselors, librarians and nurses. In order to do that, because of the fact that the Legislature is not giving us anymore money, we have to cut somewhere and what we are proposing to cut is part of the funding for the Project Grad program.
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The action by our police department was immediate, as was the action by school officials.
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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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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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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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Any student who engages in this kind of activity today can be suspended for up to three days, and may be removed from school outright. There also are severe academic consequences.
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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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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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All of these schools are big, and they all have doors around the campus, and obviously if a door is left ajar, certainly it is possible for someone to get in. That's why we have officers walking the halls and teachers walking the halls and administrators walking the halls, looking for anyone who is there who shouldn't be there.
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We've gotten some real ugly things. It's been disappointing.
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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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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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We're working always to improve it, but we certainly have invested a lot of money in recent years to make security upgrades.
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We directed them to go back and run another set of background checks after the issue at Attucks involving the custodian because his initial background check had not produced any record of a criminal conviction.