Wear red again this Thusday

This is a big week! The School Board will meet for a work session, THIS Thursday, Feb. 9 at 6:30 p.m. and the 2007-2008 calendar is definitely on the agenda.

Please come to the work session wearing red and "No Balance" buttons. We'll have more buttons available at the door.

The work session will take place in the County Administrative Complex in the Carolyn Campbell room, not the auditorium where it met last month. (The Campbell room is their regular room for work sessions.)

The Carolyn Campbell room is on the second floor. It would be best to come in through a front door, such as where you enter for license plates, and pass through security. The address is 1320 West Main St., Franklin. For a map click here.

While we were manning our kiosk at the Cool Springs Mall, one School Board member from Williamson County spoke at length with one of our CCC members. This Board member indicated that he thinks year-round schools are definitely the wave of the future and it is inevitable that the Williamson County school system would have to follow everybody else—perhaps adding a few days each year, but eventually we must follow everybody else.

Wrong! That will only be true if we allow Board members like this to hold sway over our entire county.

A few days ago, another School Board member had a conversation with another CCC member. This Board member indicated that he would fully support moving clusters of schools in the county to a year-round calendar next year. His reasoning? The absolutely worthless phone survey which almost everybody has discounted by now.

We may have gained a temporary reprieve for 2006-2007, but the same people who expressed interest in a year-round calendar for this coming year and still on the School Board and in the Central Office.

Please give us your support by wearing red to the School Board's work session Feb. 9 at 6:30 p.m. at the County Administrative Complex in the Carolyn Campbell room.