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- Always continue learning.
- Be nice to others, you don't know their struggles.
- Don't try to define yourself by your possessions.
- Accept constructive criticism.
- Say you're sorry and admit your mistakes.
- Never go to bed angry with your spouse.
- Don't take anything for granted.
- Work at being healthy, it doesn't just show up on your doorstep.
- People who judge others do so out of their own insecurities.
- Some people are simply not nice, forget them and move on.
- The car one drives is not necessarily a symbol of his success.
- If you suspect a health issue, see a doctor before it's too late.
- Say "I love you" more often, you never know when it will be the last time.
- Some people in the world are more successful, richer, more intelligent, thinner, more attractive than you. An equal amount of people in the world are less successful, poorer, less intelligent, heavier, less attractive than you. Be happy with yourself.
- Be proud of your accomplishments.
- Don't be too proud you dismiss others' ideas or comments.
- Choose your words carefully.
- Think before you react...especially using the written word.
- Try new things.
- Don't be afraid of failure, for it is just a mere stepping stone on the path of self-discovery.
- Save for retirement & your kids' college....
- Cherish your family & friends.
- If you cannot buy an item outright, you cannot afford it (a home and car excluded). Credit isn't free money.
- Understand politics. It's your life, your tax money, your freedoms, your rights, your children's futures...you have a vested interest, so get involved....or at least vote.
- Be able to answer the question "what was the last book you read."
- Surround yourself with people who make you happy and feel good.
- Help others in distress.
- Donate items, most especially if you have the financial means to do so.
- Open a bank account for your kids, and teach them about money from a young age.
- Beware of giving advice when it's not wanted.
- Sometimes it's best to keep your mouth shut.
- Braggarts can be spotted a mile away.
- If you look good, you feel good.
- Confidence comes from within.
- Be humble, be kind, give, smile, love and relish your birthday.
35 Lessons From My 35 Years
32 comments:
- Golden Butterflyz said...
Happy Birthday to you! I am nearly there myself. This is a very thoughtful list. It is hard to narrow down the favorites. My favorites are not going to bed angry, saying I love you often, teaching kids the value of money and understanding politics. Great to visit you via VB!
- September 08, 2011 10:57 PM
- MsAngelStarr said...
Excellent list! I make it a point to learn something new every day, even if it's just a word. I'm always trying new things and confidence definitely does come from within!!
I'm a new follower coming by from Voiceboks! Looking forward to reading more!
Angela @ First Comes Baby... - September 08, 2011 11:09 PM
- Kim Bee said...
2 and 26 stand out to me. I love the idea of a list like this. It helps your readers know you better. Which is always a good thing. Happy Birthday!
- September 09, 2011 12:19 AM
- Emily said...
Happy Birthday to you! I am enjoying my last few days of being 35 myself. What an adventure!
New follower from the hop, hope to see you on my blog soon!
Emily from Nap Time Is My Time - September 09, 2011 5:06 AM
- Kathy said...
Happy Birthday!! What a great way to mark your special day and milestone birthday! I loved your whole list and agree with every one. Today the ones that stand out for me is 2, 20 and 26. I was always so afraid to try new things in case I "failed" I have learned in my 45 years that I have learned so much from my "mistakes", I am who I am becasue of all that I have gone through. I hope you have a wonderful day celbrating!!! Thanks for a really great post!!
- September 09, 2011 8:47 AM
- Tracy said...
Thanks for the birthday wishes everyone! The realization has hit that I am no longer in the 25-34 category, but in the 35-44 category. OH well. I'm enjoying reading all your thoughts on my list. Have a wonderful weekend.
- September 09, 2011 9:19 AM
- Christie said...
Happy Birthday!!!
Following you from the Finding New Friends Bloghop
chorzcorner.blogspot.com - September 09, 2011 11:13 AM
- Katy said...
Happy Birthday, Tracy! You still look like the 20 year old girl I met. No one would believe you're 35, which is still young. I related to your whole list, but as life changes, the two most important to me are 22 & 35. The ones I wish people realized are so important are: 2,5,7,8,9,10,13,16,17,18,24,26,27,28,31 & 34. Life is difficult especially when there's no one to count on. Your blog is excellent because it is honest & for the good of the people.
- September 09, 2011 2:35 PM
- coronaryrn said...
Happy Birthday! I am trying to catch up on my Thursday Blog Hops! Love your list! I may borrow the idea one of these days if that is ok! Follow back @ http://www.pargasjunkyard.wordpress.com and / or on facebook @ http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pargas-Junkyard/259287017434763
- September 09, 2011 3:41 PM
- Michael Ann said...
Happy Birthday! Stopping by from VB. I LOVE this life! I am going to print it up for myself and i love the idea of making a list on your birthday like this. Mine will have to be quite a big longer though... :-)
http://thinkinginmyheadma.blogspot.com - September 09, 2011 6:29 PM
- Laura said...
That's a great list. In 2 years, I might write the 50 lessons I've learned. OMG! I can't believe I'm getting old!
Well back to you...Happy Birthday Young Chick!
I know I'm a little late, but stopping by from Members to Remember! - September 09, 2011 7:24 PM
First, might I say that I love when my email dings in the 5 o'clock hour, as it is usually an update from your blog. I love to read what you have to say. <3
Second, Happy Birthday, my dear friend. Welcome to the next age group. We'll share one for a short time. :)
Lastly, I love many of your points above: Particularly fond of 2 (be nice), 7 (take nothing for granted) and 13/22 (cherish your friends/family while saying I love you more.) All very goods lessons for daily life.
I trust this will be a delightful year for you.
<3 K - September 09, 2011 7:28 PM
- Little Lilly Polka Dot Bedtime Blog said...
I like the CONFIDENCE COMES WITHIN IN one. SO very true!!
I am following you from the Blog Hop! Could you kindly follow mine? www.littlelillypolkadotbedtimeblog.blogspot.com
THANKS! :) - September 09, 2011 9:24 PM
- Keesha said...
Happy Birthday! What a wonderful idea to celebrate your years - to acknowledge them and be proud. Every one of these lessons we should try to not merely follow, but to inhabit. They are simple, but not easy, to live by, especially in our often materialistic, rich and famous worshipping, tear-down others to make ourselves feel better culture. My faves were 3, 4 and 14. Admitting mistakes/accepting constructive criticism (3,4) are so vital to our personal growth. And of course, accepting ourselves while striving to be the best we can be is what I take from 14.
- September 09, 2011 9:39 PM
- Rosann said...
Happy Birthday and what a fabulous list! My favorites are:
Say "I love you" more often, you never know when it will be the last time.
Understand politics. It's your life, your tax money, your freedoms, your rights, your children's futures...you have a vested interest, so get involved....or at least vote.
Open a bank account for your kids, and teach them about money from a young age.
**I'm personally really bad about the politics one. If it weren't for my husband pushing his political passion on me (almost everyday! LOL!) I'd be clueless about what's going on in our world.
Rosann - September 10, 2011 7:13 AM
- Mommy LaDy Club said...
Happy Birthday! Looking through your list, I think mine is almost identical. The one that stood out, because I'm the oldest girl in our family with 2 younger brothers and sisters...I tend to offer them advice probably a lot more than they want to hear it;) I have to watch that!
- September 10, 2011 12:11 PM
- Ashleigh/Merely Momma said...
Love this post (and blog)! Found you via vB ... definitely following you!
- September 11, 2011 9:38 AM
- GJT said...
Happy Birthday, fellow Virgo! What a great list. I think #31 is the hardest, yet most true. This goes for all folks, including my kids. Sometimes I want to just keep explainin' and explainin', and sometimes it might be better if I just shut up!
Gina from vB
www.totallyfullofit.com - September 11, 2011 9:59 AM
- jenni863 said...
Happy Birthday! Im a little late lol, But I hope you had a wonderful one!!
Stopping by from the Grow your GFC blog hop, already a follower, so im following Via FB.
I would love to invite you to follow me if you havent already :), J'S REVIEWS AND GIVEAWAYS
Thanks so much! have a great day! - September 11, 2011 2:13 PM
- Tracy said...
Thank you for all the birthday wishes! Also, thanks for all your comments, I really enjoyed reading your opinions. After a very busy weekend, I need to play catch up, and I stop by and say hi to each of you in the next couple of days!
- September 11, 2011 9:36 PM
- Sarah said...
Happy birthday! This is a very inspirational post and I agree it helps us readers understand the woman behind the blog better! I think the message about being more involved with politics is important and not one that we hear enough. We hear a lot of complaining about the government, but too few people working to change it!
- September 12, 2011 12:12 PM
- Judy Haughton-James said...
Happy Belated Birthday greetings coming all the way from Jamaica to you! Love this post! Very important points made. Take care and all the best to you.
Judy - September 13, 2011 2:10 PM
- Tracy said...
Wow, I truly enjoyed reading everyone's comments! I believe I am all caught up now...I commented if I could, but my google acct. is acting up on my pc so I wasn't always able to :(.
- September 13, 2011 9:28 PM
- Great Beauty Buys said...
Happy Birthday - I love your list - I'm going to share it with my 15 year old. I'm following from VB Friends to Remember. Hope you are having a great week.
Dayna - September 14, 2011 9:58 AM
- Tracy said...
Wow, I'm touched you want to show my list to your 15 year old. She probably thinks 35 is really old! Reminds me of how when I was younger I shrugged off my mom's advice, then years later I told her "Mom, I opened my mouth & there you were." Moms' words do stay with us. - September 14, 2011 10:11 AM
- Spilled Milkshake said...
Happy belated birthday!! I really love this list, you've learned some awesome things. My favorites are 7, 13, and 31.
Visiting from voiceBoks Members to Remember!
Christina - September 14, 2011 10:17 AM
- Becky Jane said...
Happy 35th birthday! Your list has a lot of good things learned...I especially like #5 and #14.
Visiting from voiceBoks
Thanks, Becky Jane
http://riseaboveyourlimits.blogspot.com/ - September 14, 2011 10:27 AM
- GIna @mommyposh.com said...
Happy birthday! what a great list....
Following your from BV!
www.mommyposh.com - September 14, 2011 12:00 PM
- Shannon Milholland said...
Happy, happy Birthday! This a fantastic list of wisdom. Think I'll make it required reading for my kids... ;)
- September 14, 2011 3:11 PM
- Michelle said...
Happy (late) Birthday! This is a great list!
Stopping in from vB members to remember!! - September 14, 2011 5:15 PM
- Lisa said...
Happy belated birthday! I love your list....and I can't pick a favorite. They're all good and true. I think this would be a great tradition every birthday!! Stopping by from vB, so glad to have found you.
- September 14, 2011 7:36 PM
- Jansen Family said...
Happy Birthday!! This is a wonderful list...I really like all of them! I think 1,2, and 8 might be my favorites!
Carla @ Jansen Family Adventures - September 17, 2011 10:40 AM


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I love kedgeree, but rarely make it, because the 'smoked haddock' that we get here in South Africa is awful. In fact, it's not haddock at all, but hake-with-a-fake-tan. Incredibly, it's perfectly legal for South African manufacturers to pass off dyed hake as smoked haddock.
An excellent alternative to haddock in a kedgeree is smoked snoek. Snoek, a time-honoured staple of Cape cuisine, is delicious when properly smoked; it's inexpensive, sustainable and has an agreeable flaky texture. Curiously, despite its abundance, snoek isn't something you often see featured on Cape restaurant menus: in this interesting article about snoek, Hilary Prendini-Toffoli explains why (and at the end of the article, you'll find four excellent snoek recipes from two of South Africa's best-loved cookery writers, Carmen Niehaus and the late Lannice Snyman).
Living next to Hout Bay harbour as I do, all I need do is nip down to Mariner's Wharf for a pack of their famous oak-smoked snoek, but you might struggle to find it if you live upcountry. It's available in some of the bigger supermarkets, and you can also ask your local fishmonger to order it for you.
My kedgeree contains just a hint of curry powder (Rajah Medium Curry powder has the right, generic taste) . Don't be tempted to add more spice, or you'll overwhelm the delicious parsley-egg-rice flavours. I use plain old Tastic rice, for its bland, milky flavour. Don't skimp on the cream.
Snoek Kedgeree
2 cups (500 ml) uncooked rice
6 cups (1.5 l) water
1 t (5 ml) salt
6 eggs
3 T (45 ml) butter
a large onion, finely chopped
2 tsp (10 ml) medium curry powder
60 ml water
400 ml pouring cream
300 g smoked snoek, bones removed, and flaked
1 t (5 ml) finely grated lemon zest
½ cup (125 ml) finely chopped fresh parsley
4 t (20 ml) lemon juice
salt and milled black pepper
a pinch of cayenne pepper
Put the rice, water and salt in a pan and switch on the heat. Cook for 20-25 minutes, over a high flame, or until the rice is cooked. Drain and set aside. Boil the eggs for 8-9 minutes, or until the yolks are just cooked. Run cold water over the eggs, peel, and chop into little cubes. Set aside.
Heat the butter in a large saucepan, add the onions and a pinch of salt and cook gently for four to five minutes, or until soft and translucent. Stir in the curry powder and cook for another minute. Now add 60 ml water, turn up the heat, and allow to bubble for another two minutes. Turn down the heat. Tip the cooked rice into the pan and add the cream, flaked snoek and lemon zest, stirring well to combine. When the mixture has gently heated through, add the parsley, chopped egg and lemon juice and season well with salt and pepper. Serve immediately, with a dusting of cayenne pepper.
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There's a trend going on to incorporate a wide variety of smart technologies into labels and packaging. An example of this is supermarket chain Marks & Spencer. Earlier this year they introduced a new packaging for their strawberry in the UK. They started using their It's Fresh! technology in the packaging which increases shelf life.
Eef de Ferrante, director of the recently launched Active and Intelligent Packaging Industry Association AIPIA, said that it seems that all sectors decided that the time is right to start looking into commercial applications for active and intelligent packaging.
AIPIA, the Dutch company that launched in February, already signed up over 40 blue chip companies from different sectors like the food sector, pharmaceutical and logistics industries. These companies want to drive new technologies out of R&D and into commercial use. AIPIA wants to have a look at the entire supply chain to develop standards, implementation processes and communication platforms which will link production, packaging and logistics to the retailer. Some of their member today include Bayer, Motorola, Dow Performance Packaging, DSM, NXP and Avery Dennison RFID and also some logistics companies like UPS and retailers like Marks & Spencer.
De Ferrante said that AIPIA, together with their members, is now developing a wide range of intelligent technologies like RFID, Track & Trace, gas scavengers, sensors and more. Together with developments in nano-technology, NFC and mobile commerce, AIPIA now has the ability to bring all these technologies to a huge market.
One of the applications that AIPIA is offering is a mobile technology. Consumers can use their mobiles or smartphones to communicate with products in supermarket shelves, and this is achieved through technologies on the packaging. Also applications like scanning products with your phone to get a discounts, join loyalty programs and go online to websites catalogues aren't possibilities anymore, these applications have become reality. But to provide these hi-tech solutions, there is a need for a bread industry network, and AIPIA offers this network.
Amina AITai, founding partner and marketing director at brand innovation lab Immagemme, said that brands need to reevaluate their design process and how they engage with their consumers on packages. Up to now, communication through packaging with consumers has always been one-way and focused on product information. Now brands need to create a two-way dialogue using smart technologies. This is because consumers nowadays want to be involved in the brand, the want to co-create and they can start doing this virtually.
AITai predicts that NFC will become more important, especially RFID, which allows smart phones to engage with tags embedded in packaging. Consumers need to get an authentic and controlled brand experience while in their local supermarket for example. QR codes were popular the last year but they have some shortcoming which RFID can answer to. For example they often need dedicated apps or they are ineffectively implemented. With NFC technologies like RFID, consumers can access information faster and more seamlessly.
But the problem is that NFC tags are expensive. QR codes can just be printed on the labels or packages without a significant impact on the price, but more expense is added to the production process when you want to add tags on the package. AITai said that it will probably be a challenge to smoothly incorporate NFC into the design of packages. It's up to the packaging designers to strike a balance between being on-brand while also being commercial enough for consumer to benefit from the added value of the NFC.
It's important to realize that the look and feel of a package will always be important because our brains respond to visuals and colors before they decipher words. But this isn't enough anymore. Modern consumers need an evolved experience, they need to be engaged in an on-going dialogue. So brands need to create an in-store brand experience and increase the brand communication. And one of the ways to do this is the NFC that was just discussed. It can be used to provide additional content and interactive ways to engage the consumer.
Madelyn Postman, from brand design agency Grain Creative, doesn't believe that there is no future for QR codes. She said that labels and packages lend themselves to the use of QR codes and they provide an opportunity for consumers to engage. An intriguing application of QR codes are the virtual stores. Images of products are displayed on a screen and clients can scan a products QR code to purchase or reserve the item. Tesco created a virtual store at a train station in South Korea, UK retailer Argos ran a similar campaign at London's Paddington station in the run up to Christmas 2011 and also Chicago will have its own virtual store soon. But it is true that it takes time to open the app needed to read the QR code and scan the code. And this might be one of the reasons that people are losing interest in QR codes.


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It's been clear for months that the Guilford County Board of Education's $80 million, deceptively named airport area high school has been all but dead. Supporters of High Point Central High School on Wednesday, Nov. 28 merely took it off life support.
Having been blocked by
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incompetence, bad planning, corruption and bad management at every turn in its four-year effort to build one of the most expensive, and least necessary, high schools ever built in North Carolina, the school board tried one last gambit: holding two barely advertised public forums nobody would attend so the school board could claim that, despite the lack of support for the high school, there was no support for not building it.
The gambit worked at Page High School on Nov. 5, where only a handful of people showed up to comment on the two remaining issues: whether the school board should build the airport area high school at all, and if not, how it should spend the $69 million left over from the project.
Of the $80 million budgeted for the school, $8 million was for an autism wing that was moved elsewhere, leaving $72 million, and
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managed to spend $3 million on not building the high school, for which it never found land, largely because of looking for it in all the wrong places.
The gambit failed drastically at High Point Central, where a small meeting Nov. 15 brought to light numerous problems with the condition of the historic Collegiate Gothic-style school, built in 1926, which is the High Point equivalent of Greensboro's Grimsley High School, formerly Greensboro High School.
High Point Central alumni are a seriously school-spirited bunch and not just recent alumni. At High Point Central, several generations of Bisons filled the auditorium to near capacity, joined by a large cohort from Western Guilford High School.
The organized, passionate crowd answered the two questions clearly: don't build the airport area high school, and use the money to repair and expand existing schools, including High Point Central, that have severe space and maintenance problems.
The forum was remarkable because of the number of parents, students, retired teachers and principals and even current High Point Central teachers who were willing to stand up and publicly complain about the condition of the high school.
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employees, who fear retribution, rarely speak out about problems at their schools, and even parents and students are often cowed by
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has been allowed to get too big and too powerful for its own good, and thinks and acts like a private corporation, rather than a taxpayer-funded government agency designed to serve citizens. But the High Pointers at High Point Central, frustrated by what they said is 20 years of getting the short stick in the consolidated school system, used the public forum to rage against the machine.
English teacher Nancy Spurgeon, who has taught at High Point Central since 1973, was a notable example. Spurgeon, whose deceased husband was also a teacher at High Point Central for 17 years ("I married the teacher across the hall."), held up a large plastic bag full of crumbled paint and plaster.
"I've brought a part of my wall," Spurgeon said to a roar of laughter from the crowd. "And that's because, as a teacher, I know how valuable visual aids are."
Spurgeon, who teaches in room 305 at High Point Central, told the school board she made the mistake of trying to mount things on the wall space between the windows in her classroom only to find that there was no wall.
"There's no plaster under there," she said. "It's got a plastic cover over it to make it look like plaster, but if you knock on it, there's nothing there."
Spurgeon also said in a complaint heard frequently throughout the night that High Point Central's bathrooms were a crawling horror. She said she stopped in the girls' bathroom on the way to the forum and found only five of 10 stalls in functioning condition. She said many had no doors, massive holes in the doors, no toilet paper holders and other problems that ensured that no woman would use them.
"They're just not going to do it," she said. "I'm telling you, men, they're just not going to do it."
Spurgeon said High Point Central has only two copy machines, neither of which had been working since Nov. 7.
After the forum, Spurgeon bravely posed for a picture holding up her bag of classroom.
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Western Region Superintendent Angelo Kidd, who is at the top of his profession and makes $146,000 a year, was talking to Spurgeon before the picture was taken, but tried to dive out of the frame before he could be captured on film even appearing to condone criticism of the school board.
Shamed by the photographer before his braver underling, he sheepishly crawled back into the picture and managed a grimace of a false smile.
School board Chairman Alan Duncan and school board members Ed Price, Carlvena Foster, Nancy Routh, Sandra Alexander, Jeff Belton, Darlene Garrett and Deena Hayes attended the forum, along with Guilford County School Superintendent Mo Green and a small army of
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administrators. High Point had definitely gotten the school system's attention.
Price and Foster represent High Point. Routh and Alexander are at-large members of the school board and can't win reelection without High Point votes. That's four members of the school board off the top who now know that they can vote for the proposed airport area high school only at their peril. Price has already come out against it, and was the first school board member to publicly question the need for it, although school board member Amos Quick says he has done so privately.
The airport area high school was proposed as part of the $457 million school construction program funded by school bonds Guilford County voters approved in May 2008. Price said he wished that High Point had organized similarly large protests during the negotiations over the $1 billion in school bonds approved since 2000.
"I'm a High Pointer, and I've never seen a turnout like this for any school in High Point," Price said. "This is a tremendous turnout for High Point Central. I wish this had happened in 2000, 2003 and 2008. Some of our needs should have been included in some of those bond things."
Speaker after speaker stood up to detail those needs: crowded classrooms, an unusable cafeteria with a capacity of 150 for a school with 1,424 students, an impossibly tiny library, terrifying bathrooms, a lack of work space for teachers, "floating teachers" who have no assigned classrooms and, above all, the presence of The Academy at Central, which occupies the Tomlinson building on the High Point Central campus, and which High Point Central supporters said should be returned to the school.
High Point Central supporter Brian Hall asked everyone in the auditorium who was a student, employee or alumnus of High Point Central to stand. Almost all of the audience stood.
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has had a total net growth of 356 students, 186 of which were added at High Point Central. He said, "Exactly half of that growth came from High Point Central."
Hall told the school board members, "I'm going to make it real simple."
Real simple meant that High Point Central has 16 teachers with no classrooms who trundle large carts from room to room all day; that the cafeteria was pointless ("Do the math," he said. "There's no way to get those students through the cafeteria."); the library wouldn't hold even a full class of students; and High Point Central needed a massive overhaul to make it fit for human habitation.
"It's time that High Point Central become one of the haves," Hall said. "We are, we feel, one of the have-nots. We are not a proponent of the school at the airport. We would rather see that money spent on existing schools." Huge applause and cheering erupted throughout the auditorium.
Ah, that applause. It was like cool water on parched earth. Duncan doesn't usually allow the audience at school board meetings to clap, cheer or talk. Instead, he makes the citizens paying for the school system do the "school board waggle" a perverse, spastic vertical hand-wave Duncan claims will save time at school board meetings and forums. It was in dramatic evidence at High Point Central you've never seen it done right until you've seen it done in a packed high school auditorium but even Duncan's schoolmarm chiding couldn't keep this crowd quiet.
Here's hoping that the next school board chairman drops that obscene restriction. A school board that tolerates two-hour staff presentations at its meetings has a lot of gall trying to prevent the public from engaging in 30 seconds of applause.
Not even Duncan's habitual civility can take the sting out of telling taxpayers, in essence, to sit down and shut up.
Retired High Point Central teacher and coach Andrea Cozart gave the school board a scalding description of the way
Guilford County Schools
has allowed the school to deteriorate since its glory days, her speech punctuated by a word that was on the lips of nearly every speaker: "deplorable." She capped off her speech with a rousing call for the school board to return the Tomlinson building, with its 12 classrooms, to High Point Central.
"You can relieve the floating teacher situation tonight if you restore Tomlinson building to High Point Central," she said. "That academy is not a High Point Central entity. It is a Guilford County entity that could be put anyplace."
One thing that enraged the High Point Central supporters more than anything else is that, anticipating the airport area high school project being shot down, the
Guilford County Schools
Facilities Department came up with a $76 million list of upgrade and maintenance projects for schools and High Point Central, which has more maintenance and space problems than most, is not on the list.
Cozart said she had seen a separate maintenance priority list for High Point Central, which was nonsensical.
"You have paving the parking lot as the number one priority," she said. "That is absolutely incredible."
Several High Point Central students spoke eloquently about the condition of the school even though they will have long graduated by the time it is remedied.
High Point Central Student Body President Thomas Jarrell said, with admirable understatement, that students at the school have become used to conditions that are "less than ideal."
Jarrell said there are no doors on the boys' bathroom stalls. He said, "In fact, there are a few missing toilet seats on the toilets." He called the cafeteria "a serious problem that needs to be addressed," and said that classrooms are crowded and textbooks in incredibly short supply. "I've only been given one textbook this year in my eight classes," he said.
Jarrell said, "I urge you to use the funds to upgrade our schools."
A repeated complaint from parents was that the High Point Central cafeteria leaves poor students stuck on campus with no lunch 60 percent of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price lunches and creates a dangerous situation daily as students with cars rush off campus to try to get lunch. Some parents said their children call them to come home for lunch, or even to use the bathroom.
One mother of a High Point Central student said her son had been in an accident only three weeks before. She said he was hit by a trash truck while rushing off campus for lunch.
The list of speakers was long, and the list of horror stories longer. Enough said.
The school board members, who saved their comments for the end of the forum, varied in their responses, but the overall tone was of a school board backing away from the airport area high school project so quickly it was in more danger of an accident than a hungry Central student.
The school board members tripped over themselves to deplore the deplorably deplorable conditions at High Point Central, which most claimed never to have noticed. The school board has a massive, 1,424 student high school, occupying a large property in the middle of High Point, and whose enrollment is projected to increase to 1,641 by 2,021 but it had apparently never noticed it before.
Belton said it was disturbing "to hear these reports" as if High Point were Mars, and the news of the maintenance problems had just been relayed from a NASA Mars lander.
Foster said her husband, Otis, is a High Point Central graduate who bleeds blue blood the school's color.
"We are committed to doing better at High Point Central," she said. "These conditions are unacceptable and deplorable. I will not support building another school without addressing the needs of High Point Central."
Scratch one vote for the airport area high school.
Alexander said a previous school board voted for the airport area high school, and that the school board members could have simply accepted the vote of that school board, but that a few heroic school board members had implored Duncan to take the issue back to the people.
"That's what we've one here tonight," Alexander said. "We have heard you loud and clear ... we will not let you down."
Alexander's statement was laughable on so many levels that it was hard to know when to start laughing.
The school board pursued the imaginary Taj Mahal airport area high school with relentless idiocy for four years, backed off the plan only after forced to by a lack of land, and was forced to go back to "the people" after four years only because the airport area high school plan had collapsed utterly and it suddenly wanted support for it or else support from the public to pressure the Guilford County Board of Commissioners to sell the school bonds intended for the proposed school to use elsewhere.
Alexander and most of the members of the school board were ignorant of the disasters along the way until they were reported in closed session after the fact, or until they read about them. Duncan and a few cronies controlled the entire building program, and the other school board members closed their eyes and rubber-stamped it heedlessly until forced to deal with the results of their lack of oversight.
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The commissioners come into play because they are the only ones who can approve the issuance of school bonds, which despite the name, are issued by Guilford County, not the school system.
Most of the rest of the school board members urged the audience to pressure the commissioners to sell the bonds, even though the airport area high school won't be built.
"We are the only elected body in Guilford County that can't raise money for ourselves," Belton complained. "I'm thrilled by this turnout ... but I'm always puzzled that the turnout doesn't transfer to our funding body."
With the fight over the airport area high school over, attention will turn to the commissioners. If they sell the bonds, attention will turn to the fight over the spoils, which is likely to get ugly.
After the failure to find land for the proposed schools, the
Guilford County Schools
Facilities Department came up with the $76 maintenance list but only 91 of the school system's 124 schools are on it.
Price gave the audience the cell phone numbers of County Commissioners Bill Bencini, Bruce Davis and Commissioner-elect Hank Henning.
Price said, "Those men aren't in bed until twelve at night, and they love hearing from their constituents."
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NW High
December 10, 2012 | 02:38 PM
I understand the plight of HPC, however they are not the only over crowded school. NW High consistently is in the top two list in test scores, SAT, college scholarships, etc. At the same time the front of the school is barely visible behind the trailer park of mobile classrooms.
Richard Sumner
HP Central
December 12, 2012 | 08:59 AM
If the district lines stay the way they are, my son will be a Freshman in 2018 at HP Central. I am afraid of what that school may be like by then.
I would like to suggest that there are ZERO upgrades or maintenance items taken care of at the District offices until our SCHOOLS are brought up to date.
That of course will never happen...
Wally the Engineer
Wally's World
December 13, 2012 | 06:54 AM
Wally is right on HP Central; the big wheels come first, teachers second and students dead last.
Having kin retired from GCS central office, we have too many folks making too much money trying to justify their way too underworked jobs.
December 18, 2012 | 04:49 AM
School Board: Message from the army: Get your head out of the sand!!
High Point Central Conditions
December 19, 2012 | 08:55 AM
Our daughters graduated from HPC and some of their friends now teach there. How in the world they manage to teach anything in these deplorable conditions is to be commended. Please keep up the pressure on the school board and the country commissioners. DO NOT LET HIGH POINT continue to be the Red Headed Stepchild of Guilford County.
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