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Where can names of members of the SBDM Councils be found?

And other Questions
I haven't found it easy to learn the basics about the Site Based Decision Making Councils. If a member of the Fifth Estate is as ignorant on the question as I am, what about the rest of our readers? Do the names of the SBDM Council members just come tripping off your tongues? Are you holding out on me and keeping me in the dark? I think that before I'd be qualified to write much of anything on the subject of whether to continue with a third Agriculture teacher, I'd need more information, even beyond what the many letters written have suggested. Maybe I'm alone, but I have more questions than answers. - EW:

By Ed Waggener

Here are just a few questions:
  1. Who, besides the the Adair County High School Site Based Council, has any say in the matter? Superintendent Reed? School board members Floyd Burton, Marsha Walker, Mike Harris, Joe Payne, or Rebecca Turner? Public opinion? State Officials? Area Development Districts? The Federal Government?
  2. Who are the members of the Adair County High School Site Based Council? (and for that matter, where can the names of the members of other Site Based Councils be found?)
  3. What event in the past triggered the need, or the opportunity, to have a third Agriculture Teacher? And if those conditions continue, what's the issue?
  4. Were those funds local, or did they come through some well meaning state or Federal grant?
  5. Just how long has Adair County had three Agriculture teachers? How long have we had two?
And if there are no consequences for other programs and if Adair County has always had three ag teachers and we've always had local funds to pay for three, what's the big deal?

If it doesn't affect other academic programs, if there is no overlap with redundant programs, and Adair County can achieve all its goals and continue to have three ag teachers, why argue over it?



And if this is the best way to save Adair County being put on another state watch list as a failing school district, what's the big deal?

And finally, a note? Other than the Adair County Band, we've never heard such accolades for any one program as we are hearing now for the FFA and the Adair County High School Agriculture Department.

Never, in my memory.

Does anybody remember any other high school class, course or activity - or teacher - who (or which) had a lifelong, positive impact on their lives such as the Ag grads remember?

We'd love to hear answers to these questions? We love to even receive more questions. Whatever the outcome of the Adair County Decision Making Council, one benefit we should all appreciate: People in Adair County are now talking about tough academic decisions in a way they never have before. The agriculture community deserves credit for that.

Comments are welcome. Use any Contact/Submit button. - EW


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