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Page 2— Wednesday, September 21,2022, The True Citizen
Today’s kids looking for love in all the wrong places
September 16, noticed a stu
dent exiting a classroom hold
ing a stick. When he asked the
student to give him the stick,
the student refused.
“Upon his refusal, I took the
stick from him and he began to
press up against me,” Deputy
Barnwell wrote in the incident
report. The student then walked
away, threatening to punch the
deputy in the face.
The student was escorted
to the principal’s office where
he resisted detainment. Once
the student gained composure,
SHELLIE SMITLEY
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Recently, several acts of
violence prompted the Burke
County Sheriff’s Office to
respond to local schools.
On Tuesday, September 14,
Burke County High School
principal Dr. Walter Seabrooks
reported that a 12th grade
student stated that he was go
ing to “shoot up the school.”
Upon interviewing the student,
he admitted that he made the
statement out of aggrava
tion after
some oth
er students
had taken
his head-
phones
during
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haviors.
“ Parents are working and they are not
home with their children and children are
looking to gangs for protection. They are
students in or around the vicin
ity were contaminated and had
a residual effect of irritation
and discomfort. Students that
were treated by EMA were re
leased to their parents. Students
involved in the altercation
were treated by EMA, charged
with a citation and released to
their parents. The 17-year-old
student, considered to be an
adult, received a citation for
disorderly conduct.
Sheriff Alfonzo Williams
said modern technology devic
es are presenting avenues for
children
to access
informa
tion that
negatively
influences
and per-
them are joining for protection, for love,
for security and for attention
— Sheriff Alfonzo Williams
had no
intention
of actu
ally car
rying out
the act.
A search
of the
student’s
book bag produced no weapon.
The student was suspended
from school and will be re
ferred for counseling by the
school upon his return.
The Burke County Life
Center located in Waynesboro
is part of the public school
system but provides 9-12 grade
students the opportunity for
success in a non-traditional
setting. A BCSO deputy work
ing at the center Thursday,
he was cited with disorderly
conduct.
A deputy resorted to pep
per spray the same day at
BCHS after a physical al
tercation broke out between
three juvenile students and one
adult-aged student during the
lunch period. According to the
incident report, Deputy Chris
Rhyne deployed the OC spray
to defuse and get compliance
of the situation. Several other
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things we can do. The phones
are killing this generation be
cause they are being raised by
what they see on these videos,
Instagram and Tik Tok,” he
said. “But, I also think there
is degradation in parental in
volvement and accountability.
Our faith-based communities
could do more. The family
structure is not what it used
to be.”
Williams said there is too
much emphasis on provid
ing children with material
things, while denying them the
structure, love and attention
that they desperately need. In
their young minds,
they find in gangs
what they can’t find
at home.
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Immature
minds are
getting ex-
posed to
material
they are
not ready
to comprehend. He believes
classrooms would be best
served by disallowing cell
phones in the schools. Students
who stand at the bus stop, ride
the bus and walk down the
hallway with earphones in their
ears are listening to “junk” that
does not inspire them to show
up for class ready to learn.
“We are putting phones in
their hands, and I think that
is one of the most dangerous
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position of the rezoning. He
criticized the development
proposal that included apart
ments in the back of the 16.3
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Mike Smith, the representa
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young professionals, couples
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1,796 square footage.
Bill Tinley, not yet sworn in
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cil needed to table the applica
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Acting Mayor James Chick
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of the area should address their
concerns in a meeting with
himself, Smith and Planning
Development Coordinator
Shelley Broxton to get a better
understanding of changing the
zoning to R-3.
“We need housing for the
city of Waynesboro,” Jones
said.
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events, local farmer Robert
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a verbal agreement with the
owner of the property, Mark
Yoder, to purchase the land in
the event that the R-3 zoning
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Although Jones suggested
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revelation, the panel voted
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