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Vol 38 Issue 10
BHS rifle team ranks 6th at Nationals
The Brunswick High School NJROTC (Navy Junior Reserve Officer Training Candidate)
Rifle Team placed sixth at the Navy National NJROTC Competition held recently at
Camp Perry in Ohio. The four cadets, (left to right) junior Andrew Parker, junior Andrea
Abel, senior Ilya Rogers and senior Bobby Evans, competed against teams from 46
other schools from throughout the country. Hosted by the Civilian Marksmanship Pro
gram (CMP), the event determines the Navy National Champion and the Navy's rifle
team representatives at the All Services JROTC Nationals. Placing sixth, the Pirates
missed making the All Service JROTC Nationals as a Navy rifle team representative by
one place. Lt. Cmdr. Robert Spencer directs the NJROTC program at BHS. The BHS rifle
team was honored by the Glynn County Board of Education during their meeting last
week. Lt. Cmdr. Spencer told the board that 642 NJROTC teams started the shooting
season and 46 of them made it to the National competition.
Photo courtesy of Jim Weidhaas, APR Public Relations Director Glynn County Schools
Rentz to replace Kemp as Assistant Superintendent
for Student Achievement
School board
says ‘No’ to tasers
By Matthew J. Permar
After much discussion and
controversy, the Glynn Comi
ty Board of Education (BOE)
decided against issuing elec
tronic stem devices called Tas
ers to their school resource
officers.
Over the last several
months the BOE heard repeat
ed requests from parents and
various local organizations to
reject the suggestion to issue
the Tasers.
The BOE concurred and
voted 6-1 against the Tasers
last week during their Tues
day, March 23 meeting.
BOE member John Madala,
who chairs the school board
safety and discipline commit
tee, took the lead last week
saying the Tasers had been
a “hot topic” longer than he’d
been on the board.
Giving background on the
issue, Madala said the board
had seen a demonstration
of the Tasers before he took
office.
Then, six months after
Madala took office the SROs
(school resource officers), who
are certified police officers,
asked to be issued the Tasers.
Madala said his committee
was meeting to discuss and
gather information on the Tas
ers when a December 15, 2009
newspaper article reported
comments by head SRO Ron
Lee about the Tasers.
Madala said the article was
correct, but public interpreta
tion got skewed by a comment
in the article about Tasers and
crowd control by County Police
Chief Matt Doering.
Doering said Tasers are not
an effective device for crowd
control. He said they are effec
tive in one on one situations
with a subject who is actively
assaulting another person.
Madala said the BOE was
not talking about using Tasers
for crowd control.
Continuing, Madala also
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Tasers rejected
Glynn County Schools
Superintendent Howard Mann
has announced the appoint
ment of Richard D. "Ricky"
Rentz as assistant superin
tendent for student achieve
ment. The appointment was
approved by the Glynn Coun
ty Board of Education at its
March 23 meeting.
Rentz, who has 31 years of
experience in education, cur
rently serves as principal at
Glynn Middle School. He came
to Glynn County in 2002 as
principal at Needwood Middle
School before being transferred
to Glynn Middle in 2006. Prior
to moving to Glynn County, he
was principal for 12 years at
Lumpkin County (Ga. ) Middle
School. He has also served as a
high school assistant principal
and as a classroom teacher.
Rentz earned a bachelor of
science degree in social studies
from Presbyterian College in
Clinton, S.C. He also earned a
master's degree and an educa
tion specialist degree in lead-
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Rentz
Richard 'Ricky' Rentz
Southern Soul
Barbeque burns
• Owner plans to rebuild
Matthew J. Permar
Being one who prefers
the extra sleep in the morn
ing, I usually don't eat a big
breakfast. But last Saturday I
decided to treat myself to the
full meal deal at the Huddle
House.
When I came through the
Demere-Frederica roundabout,
sometime between 10:30 and
11 a.m., everything was fine,
a normal springtime Saturday
morning on St. Simons Island.
Sitting in a booth armed
with a newspaper, drinking
coffee and waiting for my eggs,
grits, bacon and toast, I noticed,
with only mild curiosity, a fire
truck headed south through
the traffic light on Frederica
Rd.
Within minutes my cell
phone started to fire off with
messages from friends tipping
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Southern Soul burns
School board still
concerned about
Standards based
report cards
By Matthew J. Permar
The Glynn County Board
of Education has expressed
concerns about the new ‘Stan-
dards-based report cards’ that
students in some grades have
been taking home the last two
years.
According to a brief defini
tion, Standards-based report
cards (SBRC) list the most
important skills students
should learn in each subject at
a particular grade level.
And instead of traditional
letter grades, students receive
marks that show how well they
have mastered the skills.
Replacing the letter grades
are four "levels of proficien
cy" which include: 'exceeds,'
'meets,' 'in progress' and 'not
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SBRCs
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