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A Guest Editorial:
Muscle Shoals City
School Superintendent Dr. Brian Lindsey and his Brother in Law, golfing
buddy, cohort Dr, Dennis Conner who is the Non-resident, Attendance and
Instructional Support Coordinator have been throwing non-resident
students out of their schools, many of which have been in the school
system since Kindergarten. They are being thrown out for very minor
infractions, basically any reason to boot them out. This is
heartbreaking, demoralizing and devastating to the children. They being
forcibly uprooted and made to leave their school and classmates behind.
The
Muscle Shoals City Board of Education passed a new non-residency policy
on May 20, 2013 giving the Superintendent the "right to revoke the
enrollment status of an out-of-district student at any time for any
misconduct that would warrant suspension under the Code of Student
Conduct"
Principles have been instructed to
hold non-resident students to a much higher standard than other
students. Any conduct that "is less than exemplary" is reason for
probation that eventually leads to expulsion. If a parent attempts to
appeal a decision made by Dennis Conner, they have no other recourse but
to go to Dr. Lindsey, his brother in law.
The
reason is that the school system is over capacity and they spent all of
the money on the athletics program instead of building another school.
It
is also rumored that talented football students have been recruited
from outside the city to Muscle Shoals High School. It seems that
non-residence athletes are encouraged at the some time that other
non-resident students are being railroaded out of the school system.
Here is an excerpt from the Times Daily article about those apartments dated May 24, 2014
Muscle
Shoals Superintendent Brian Lindsey said the school system could be
impacted greatly if a large number of school-aged children move into the
system that, at best, has limited space for growth.
"There
are a lot of unknowns with it but we have to serve the students in our
district so if it packs us up, we'd have to first look at our
non-resident population," Lindsey said. The district currently has more than 400 non-resident students.
"The
high school is pretty close to capacity now and kindergarten's
enrollment is up for next year but if we have space issues we'll just
deal with it," he said, "The complex will likely have kids, so we'll
just deal with it as it comes."
Another interesting tidbit:
Dr.
Conner was selected to take over the Principle position at Webster Elementary, but Montgomery vetoed the appointment because of the
appearance of “nepotism and conflict of interest.”
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We realize residency requirements can be tricky. If preferential treatment for certain athletes can be established, this would indeed be lawsuit material.
Currently, we're very interested in the projected update of the Muscle Shoals High School handbook including dress code. We've glanced at the current handbook and will offer an observation on the mission statement:
Providing opportunities for all students to obtain wisdom and to achieve their greatest potential.
Educators should realize that knowledge and wisdom are two different animals--apparently some don't.
Shoalanda
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