April 28, 2023

Charter School Vote Response

Charter Vote Response

Thanks to all who reached out to me after Tuesday’s vote. Last year, the board got to ask questions after the district recommendation; however, this year, it was arbitrarily changed without our consent. Last Tuesday, when I started asking the questions (which I had already submitted) to get them on the public record, the board voted to shut down my …

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April 26, 2023

Charter School Vote

Board Meeting

Last night with the vote for charter schools here in Clarksville-Montgomery County. The American Classical Academy Clarksville-Montgomery charter school applicant was voted down 6-1 (I was the one vote for the charter school applicant). Before this actual vote, there was an interesting turn of events during the board discussion, the entire board voted 6-1 for the discussion to cease and …

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April 13, 2023

Point of Pride awards for wrestling

Lady Cats Wrestling

Tuesday the CMCSS School Board recognized several students during the April 11 meeting. My daughter is on the Clarksville High School team and I am a Rossview High School alumnus and member of the first wrestling team at Rossview so I am so proud of the accomplishments of both these teams! Students from Clarksville High School and Rossview High School …

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April 6, 2023

900 Tennis Ball Donation to Kirkwood Middle School

Kirkwood Tennis Balls

I visited Kirkwood Middle School two weeks ago and during the visit, the principal, Mrs. Laura Boss, mentioned casually that she needed 900 tennis balls. Why? Well, this is the only two-story middle school in our district and the students upstairs are on a different schedule than the students downstairs. Every time the students upstairs change classes or even get …

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April 5, 2023

Attending a Kirkwood High School staff planning and training meeting

Kirkwood High School training

I want to give a big thank you to Mrs. Jessica Peppard – the new principal of Kirkwood High School – for inviting Mrs. Carol Berry (School Board – District 1 – we share this school) and me to one of the first staff planning and training meetings for the upcoming high school. There was a representative from Jostens who …

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