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PRINCIPAL CATRETT TALKS WITH ANGRY STUDENTS
Catrett Unhappy With Student Walkout, Protest
Local Grades Rise
Greatest Improvement At High School
The failure rate in most
Chattooga County grades, par
ticularly at Chattooga High
School, fell dramaticale during
the fourth six-week grading
period, reversing a trend of the
previous six weeks.
A total of 70.7 percent of
the students in the county
system ;f)assed all subjects dur
ing the fourth grading period,
according to statisticafxi?nfor
mation compiled for The Sum
merville News by Will Hair,
vocational director at CHS.
That compares to 61.8 percent
dur‘irf the third six-week
period.
BETTER THAN 'BB
The latest grades also
showed an improvement over
the fourth six-week period dur
in% the 1987-88 school year. A
total of 67.1 percent of the
system’s students passed all
courses a year ago, compared
with 70.7 percent this year.
During the first six weeks
this year, 67.3 percent of the
students passed all their
academic supbjects. That figure
increased to 70.2 percent dur
ing the second grading period
and fell to 61.8 percent in the
third six-week unit.
The system's enrollment
Recreation Hot
Item At Meeting
Chattooga County Commis
sioner Jim Parker and Sum
merville Mfii’or Sewell Cash
were scheduled to meet this
morning to determine whether
the question of financing for
the city's recreation program
can be resolved quickly.
Today's session is a direct
result of a meeting Tuesday
evening where Parker was
stung by criticism from Sum
merville recreation director
Ralph Stanley that he had not
acted quickly enough on the
issue.
The blast came during a
called meeting of the Summer
ville Recreation Board to
develop a bare bones budget
for the city's 1989-90 fiscal
year. Both Parker and Cash at
tended the session, along with
a few local residents.
NON-CASH HELP
Mayor Cash and Commis
sioner Parker said Parker was
Jooking at several possible non
cash methods for assisting the
county's recreation program.
After Dennis Campbell, board
chairman, said no one present
wanted to limit the recreation
rograms to city residents on
fy. grtanley erupted.
Rasslin’ At Gore
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Special Report
By The News
What Can Be Done
About Chattooga
County’s Dropout Rate?
also continued to dip, falling
from 2,727 on the ro%l during
the third six weeks to 2,695
enrolled during the fourth
grading period. It started the
current school year with 2,770
on the rolls. The figure was
2,814 at the beginning of the
1987-88 school year.
HAIR PLEASED
Hair was especially pleased
with results ofp the latest six
week grading period.
“Students . . . continue to im
prove as more . . . are passing
all of their subjects, staying on
track for graduation and pass
ing more courses during the
past six weeks of school,” he
said.
A total of 85.6 percent of
the system's students was ‘‘on
track™ toward graduating by
the end of the latest six-week
“We're like people who're
going to the grocery store to
buy some groceries and we
don't have any money,” he
said. If the county can find
enou%h money to buy 155 acres
for a landfill and send money to
Chattooga County Hospital
monthly and the city can
finance improvements to its in
dustrial park, he indicated, *'it
looks like we could come up
with some money for the kids.”
NOTHING SAID
Referring to remarks by
Parker and Cash, Stanley con
tinued, “‘Nobody's really said
nothing here tonight. ..
Everybody's beating around
the bush 'and it looks like
nobody is going to say it but
me."”’ Campbel% and Charles
Elsberry, a recreation board
member and strong supporter
of Parker, agreed. The %oard
can't work on a proposed
bucéget he said, because it has
no definite revenue figures on
which to base a budget.
Later during the meeting,
one city resident asked if
Parker could have enough in
formation or make a decision
on county participation in the
see RECREATION, page 16-A
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA — THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1989
period, he noted. That com
pares with 80.5 percent during
the third six-week period.
Hair also said that 91.6 per
cent of the courses offered were
being passed by students, com
pared with 88.8 percent during
the third grading period.
CHS SCORES
Some of the greatest im
provement came at Chattooga
High School, according to
Hair's statistics.
The number of seniors pass
ing all courses increased from
61.5 percent to 72.9 percent;
the number of juniors passing
soared from 50.3 percent to
69.7 percent; the number of
sophomores passing leaped
from 31.8 percent to 57 per
cent; and the number of
freshmen passing all courses
jumped from 44.9 percent to
63.3 percent.
There were slight increases
in the failure rates of the se
cond and third grades, but first
grade failures fell from 16.1’
see LOCAL GRADES, page 8-A
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RESURRECTION OF CHRIST WILL BE CELEBRATED IN CHATTOOGA COUNTY SUNDAY
Crown Of Thorns, Spikes, Cross Illustrate His Death At Golgotha
Benefit Rescheduled
" --See Page 3-A
Walkout By CHS Students
Doesn’t Change Decision
Catrett Siill Gone As High School Principal
By RICH JEFFERSON
Staff Writer
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More than 100 Chattooga
High School students left their
classes Monday morning, walk
ed out the front doors of the
school, and headed for
Superintendent Don Hayes’ of
fice on Bolling Road to protest
the end of Jack Catrett’s short
career as principal of Chat
tooga High School.
Catrett, who was new this
year, needed to have his con
tract renewed before he could
be tenured. His contract could
not be renewed by the Chat
tooga County Board of Educa
tion if Hayes did not recom
mend him to the board. When
the board met on Monday,
March 13, Hayes recommend
ed the other six Chattooga
County principals, but he did
not recommend Catrett.
. NO PERSONS -
Hayes gave no reason, and
that's what the students said
they were protesting Monday.
Hayes also gave no indication
Tuesday that he would change
his mind and recommend
Catrett. Shouting repeatedly,
“We want Catrett,” students
said outside the Central Office
that Catrett had elevated
school spirit, quelled racial ten
sions, and mingled with the
students more freely than his
predecessor, Jack Herring.
Herring now works in the cen
tral office.
When asked why they left
school to protest after Catrett
had askeé) them not to leave
class, they said the protest was
necessary to let their opinions
be known. Hayes was not at
the Central Of};ice; he was in
Rome for a regularly schedul
ed meeting with the Regional
Education Service Agency
(RESA). Bill Kinzy,
superintendent of Trion
Schools, was also in Rome for
the meeting.
ANGERED
Hayes' absence angered the
students, and one of them tried
to kick down the door. When
John Hayes, visiting teacher
for the system, emerged from
the office to talk to the
students he was drowned out
Evaluation Steps Started
By TOMMY TOLES
Editor
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Preliminary steps are being
taken by the Chattooga Coun
ty Board of Tax Assessors and
Commissioner Jim Parker to
initiate a massive and expen
give equalization of every
#% ¢ of property in the
county.
The commissioner met
twice with the board last week
Klan To Return May 13
Summerville's City Council
held a mostly routine meeting
Monday night — with the ex
gglption of a visit from the Ku
ux Klan and a brief exchange
that resulted from the Council
refusing to change its meeting
night.
In other matters, the
Council:
* Authorized Mayor Sewell
Cash to sign a contract with
the county to house city
prisoners in the county jail if
certain changes are made.
* Approved a zoning re
quest on Montgomery Street.
as the chant for Catrett began
again. At least one student
shouted profanities to quiet the
others.
Catrett sent a note to
teachers last Friday and asked
them to read it to their
students. The note said Catrett
and encouraged it to take im
mediate steps to get the pro
ject under way. The panel was
early this week considering ap
plications for a vacant position
in the tax assessor’s office to
help handle some of the paper
work and correspondence.
The board also moved on
several other fronts:
* [t decided to obtain writ
ten proposals from professional
tax equalization firms on the
cost and length of time for a
“lock key' program for the
county.
* Meanwhile, it will refine
* Agreed to extend natural
gas lines along Back Berryton
Road as well as on Big Texas
Valley Road in Floyd County.
* Directed city work crews
to remove part of the sidewalk
on North (L,)ommerce Street to
imgrove parking in the area,
ending a months-long debate.
MOUNT BERRY
* Purchased regulators
which city officials hope will
allow Summerville to serve the
new Mount Berry Square
regional shopping mall near
Rome with natural gas without
Trion Seeks Center
--See Page 10-A
knew about the planned
walkout, and he preferred that
the students stay in class. No
disciplinary action was promis
ed if students broke the rules
and left school without permis
sion (see related story).
In an interview with The
its estimates for having the |
work done in-house by the
assessor’s office.
* Computer software firms
will be invited to demonstrate
their tax record programs to
the board before it makes a |
decision on software. 1
* A decision on purchasing
hardware will be made after the t
board decides on a computer
software program.
* The goard decided to seek
proggfals from foresters for
timber appraisals on a contrac- |
tural basis. '
Although Commissioner
installing a new $40,000 gas
line.
* Reappointed three
members to the city's Zoning
Board of Appeals.
* Readopted resolutions
dealin§ with the planned loca
tion of a new Image Carpets
Inc. facility in the town's in
dustrial park.
Lewis Strange, a Gore and
Atlanta resident, attempted to
get involved in a brief ex
change with the council after it
had unanimously rejected his
request that it change its
meeting date so it won't con
R ti
The holiest time in Christianity will be
celebrated Sunday morning as Chattooga County
churches recall the resurrection of Christ almost
2,000 years ago.
Several local governmental offices will be closed
Friday or Monday in observance of the special time
and sunrise services have been scheduled for Sun
day morning by a number of local churches.
The Summerville, Trion, Menlo and Bethel
United Methodist Churches will hold sunrise ser
vices at 7 a.m. Sunday at Camp Hamby. The Rev.
Harvey Boyd will preach and special music will be
provided. Directions to the Chattooga camp are
available from area Methodist pastors.
ALPINE SERVICE
Historic Alpine Community Church will hold
sunrise services at 6:30 a.m. followed by breakfast
afterward. The Rev. Tommy Pledger, pastor, will
speak. The 130-year-old building is located south of
Menlo on Highway 337 on Alpine Road.
Beersheba Presbyterian Church, Teloga, will
sponsor sunrise services at 6:30 a.m. Sunday at
historic Macedonia Cemetery, Highway 337.
Summerville First United Methodist Church and
Summerville Presbyterian Church, West
Washington Avenue, will hold joint Maundy Thurs
day services at 7 p.m. today at the Presbyterian
Church. A joint Good Friday service will ge held at
7 p.m. at the Methodist Church.
A hol;ll\lweek revival service will conclude Friday
night at New Hope United Methodist Church in
Summerville. The Rev. Marcie King is pastor.
see RESURRECTION, page 17-A
PRICE 25°
Summerville News shortly
before the walkout, Catrett
repeated what he said in the
note. ‘1 just want everythin%
to kind of quiet down and coo
off. We've got two months and
two weeks to go.”” Catrett also
see WALKOUT, page 16-A
E Parker seemed to favor the use
| of a software tax record pro
gram being developed by the
state, two of the board’s three
members appeared to be lean
ing toward a commercial com
| puter program. Parker had
| noted E)hat the state system
i would be provided free or at
l nominal cost to the county.
The commercial program was
1 estimated to cost between
$16,000 and $20,000.
Parker also said the count
could purchase computer harg,-
ware through a state contract.
| see EVALUATION, page 11-A
flict with meetings of the Chat
tooga County Board of
Education.
CHANGE DATE?
Strange who, along with his
wife, Pat Horton Strange, have
attended a number of council
meetings and sought informa
tion from the city under the
state's open records act, said
the county school board
wouldn't change its meeting
night. He askeg the council to
change its meeting date to
allow people to attend sessions
see KLAN, page 9-A