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Volume 128, No. 45
2 Sect! one
16 Pages
Wednesday,
Nov. 10, 1999
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Middle School PTO
meets Nov. 15
Members of the Perry
Middle School PTO will
meet Nov. 15 at 7 p.m.
The sixth grade band
will present a concert.
The January Open
House will be the main
topic of the evening.
All parents of Perry
Middle School students
are encouraged to
attend. Following the
PTO meeting, Band
Boosters will meet.
Book week celebration
planned Nov. 15-19
Children's Book Week
will be celebrated Nov.
15-19 at the Perry Pub
lic Library. Storytimes
and Toddler Times will
be held all week.
Evening Story Time
will be held at 7 p.m. on
Tuesday and Movies will
be shown at 4 p.m. on
Tuesday. For more
information, call 987-
3050.
Royal roundtable set at
Matt Arthur School
Matt Arthur Elemen
tary’s Royal Roundtable
will host the Disco
Knights. Nov. 11, 6-8
p.m.
Admission is $.50.
Food and drinks will be
available for purchase.
Matt Arthur parent
night is Nov. 16
Matt Arthur will have
a Parent Night Nov. 16,
until 7 p.m. This is in
conjunction with the
Nov. 15, 8-4 p.m. Book
Fair.
Students will be able
to buy books for them
selves and for their
classrooms. Books can
be donated to the new
library in honor or
memory of someone.
Lunches for Houston
County Schools
Milk is served with
every meal. Breakfast
features fresh fruit or
fruit juice; cereal and
toast are a daily break
fast choice. Lunches
offer a variety of fruits
and vegetables daily.
Peanut butter and jelly
sandwiches are always
on the menu.
Nov. 11- Breakfast-
Pigs in a Blanket.
Lunch- Cheeseburger or
Southern Chicken
w/roll or sub-munch
able. Manager’s Choice
dessert.
Nov. 12- Breakfast-
Manager’s choice.
Lunch- Chicken fried
steak w/gravy and roll
or pizza. Apple sauce
cake.
(See FOOD, Page SA)
Houston
Contact:
the
Home
Journal
Contact the Houston Home journal:
Voice (912)987-1823
Fax (912) ‘>BB-1181
email
Mail PO. Drawer M,
Perry, 31069
Street 807 Carroll St.,
Perry, 31069
Veterans salute
Letter includes poem saluting
all veterans for their efforts to
preserve American way of
life.
Editorial, Page 4A
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Official Legal Organ for Houston County, the City of Perry and the State of Georgia
BOE says students fighting at public
schools face risk of police fines
By Torey Jolley
Home Jourwai. State
lighting in school has always
been against the rules, but now it
can cost a student more than just
detention.
Members of the Houston Coun
ty Board of Education passed a
new policy concerning fighting in
schools during the Nov. 9 meet
ing.
According to the new policy,
students who fight in school, on
the way to or from school, or at
school sponsored functions, will
find themselves with a citation
from the appropriate local law
enforcement agency.
To prepare for this policy
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THE NEW QUEEN Cody Giles smiles as she wears
the crown oj the Westfield Homecoming Queen. Giles, a
senior, was introduced during halftime festivities at the
Nov. 5 Westfield football game.
Veterans’ Day celebration
at Rozar Park Nov. 11
Veterans’ Day will be observed
in Perry at 10:45 a.m., Nov. 11, at
the Rozar Park Recreation Center.
Col. Duane A. Jones, comman
der of the 93 Logistics Group. 93
Air Control Wing at Robins Air
Force Base, will be the guest
speaker.
Barnes to cut city birthday cake
From Staff Reports
uov. koy A. Barnes will be on
hand for the celebration of Perry’s
175th Birthday Nov. 19.
According to Mayor Jim Wor
rall, the governor will give a brief
talk and will cut the birthday
cake.
The Perry High School Band
will provide the music.
On the program for the special
event, which will begin at 2 p.m.
at City Hall, will be Councilman
Bobby Glover, Mayor Worrall and
Rep. Larry Walker.
The Old Reliable, Serving Houston County Since Dec, 17, 1870
change, a new definition of fight
ing was approved by the Board.
It reads, “Fighting is defined as a
physical struggle or a physical
anu confrontation wherein blows
ot the list, arms, legs or feet are
intended to hit or do in fact hit
any other student or any other
person while a student is going to
or from school, during the school
day. or at any school related
function.”
The policy further states any
student in grades 6-12 who is
engaged in a fight shall be report
ed to the appropriate law enforce
ment officer or agency.
Houston County Board of Edu
cation attorney Billy Jerles said.
The Perry High School Band
will play. Hayley Greene and
Christie Hawley will sing, and the
colors will be presented by the
Perry High J.R.O.T.C. Color
Guard.
Rozar Park is at 1060 Keith
Drive in Perry.
The Houston Home Journal is
preparing a souvenir publication
for the event, which will include
highlights of Perry's history and
reminiscences about past times.
This 175th birthday publication
will be included in the Nov. 17
issue of the paper, and will also be
available at the program.
Members of the Perry City
Council are serving as hosts for
the occasion. A large sheet cake is
being prepared for the occasion.
The ceremony will be held out
side. Worrall reported.
County champs!
Perry Middle School Seventh
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Houston County public schools earn
good scores in ‘report card’ ranking
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By Jj JOHNSON
Home Journal Editor
Houston County public schools fared
well in a report of the Georgia school sys
tem released Nov. 9.
The rating of the school systems and
individual schools was sponsored through
the Georgia Public Policy Foundation.
Among elementary schools in the state,
Houston County schools ranked as high as
174 (Perdue Elementary) and as low as 934
(Lindsey Elementary).Some 1,065 Georgia
elementary schools were assessed.
Of the 410 middle schools given a grade,
Houston County schools ranged from 25th
in the state by Feagin Mill Middle School to
as low as 257 by Tabor Middle School.
Scores attained by students taking the
lowa Test of Basic Skills during 1998 were
used to rank elementary and middle
schools. Scores in two basic areas, reading
and math, were used for the evaluation.
Houston County high schools ranged from
42nd for Houston County High to 105 for
Perry High, (see county scores on page S A)
A different test, the Georgia High School
Graduation Test, was used for ranking the
319 high schools in Georgia.
Students are required to pass the Grad
uation Test as part of the requirements for
"Fighting will be reported to law
enforcement and it will be han
dled like it would be at any other
place.”
The courts have indicated that
students found guilty of fighting
and/or disorderly conduct will
receive a citation. This would cost
students, or their parents, SSO
for the first offense and SIOO for
the second. The fine would be
payable to the court, not the
School Board.
The policy change states, “On
appeal, the Houston County
Board of Education shall only
review the record and shall ren-
See FIGHTING. Page 5A
Home Journal photo by Jj John
son
LETTING HER HAIR
FLY This majorette
in the Perry High
School Pride of the
Crossroads band lets
her hair fly during the
halftime peiformance
at the Panther Pit Nov.
5. After using the con
test show as the main
halftime show during
the first seven PHS
games, band director
Joe Hutcheson provid
ed a completely new
show for band mem
bers.
Day at Tucker
Take a look at a fall festival at
school
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Defi ni t ion of
Fighting
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Fighting is defined as a
physical struggle or a
physical and confronta
tion wherein blows of the
fist, arms, legs or feet
are intended to hit or do
in fact hit any other stu
dent or any other person
while a student is going
to or from school, during
the school day, or at any
school related function.
a diploma. The test evaluates basic skills in
several academic areas.
Also factored in for the ranking were the
average 1999 Scholastic Aptitude Test
scores among students enrolled in a college
prep program and the school graduation
rate.
By way of comparison, Houston County
and Feagin Mill recorded the highest scores
among midstate schools in their respective
divisions of ranking.
All Houston County high schools fin
ished among the top one-third in the state.
The test scores are useful to school
administrators in comparing various
schools against others around the state.
For parents, the scores indicate the type
of education available in the schools to
which their children are assigned.
There are several organizations which
rank public schools in Georgia. Some
include other criteria such as the number
of students at the poverty level in making
the ranking. This ranking does not com
pensate for high poverty rates.
Georgia Public Policy Foundation is a
non-profit, non-partisan organization in
the state. The organization also tracks pub
lic opinion and information concerning
other government issues in the state.
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