The Escalating Costs of School
Legal Fees
A Recipe for Math by Hansen and Green
Pre-K: Jump Starts Georgia's 4-year-olds by Brown and Douglas
How Does Your Garden Grow? by Weber
Research in grades 5-8
Mentoring: Hope or Hype? by Sitterding
Research in grades 9-12
Are Floaters Belly Up? by Hughston
Voluntary Corporal Punishment Reduces
Suspension Rates by Yancey
Teacher Centered and Student Centered Approaches to Instruction in Social Studies by Hayes
Administrative policy
The newest course to be added to the standard school curriculum of reading, writing and arithmetic is Litigation 101. Rumors and threats of legal action, cases settled out of court, and those taken to court are an enormous drain on time and money. Money spent on legal fees could potentially be spent on hiring more teachers, providing better student services, and other more pleasant possibilities
This paper will examine the legal history of the Greene County School System from 1997 to 1999. During this time period, the school board dismissed one superintendent, hired two others, and became embroiled in complex, costly legal imbroglios. The aftermath of seemingly simple changes in personnel alerted local residents to the incredible cost of litigation.
Kaye Compton
Bachelor of Music Education-- University of Georgia
Masters of Secondary Education-- West Georgia College (University of West Georgia)
Education Specialist-- Berry College (Spring, 2000)
My teaching experience includes years at Cass High in Bartow County, Georgia and Lowndes High in Lowndes County. Courses taught range from music and English to biology and driver's ed. In 1978 I was chosen as the STAR teacher for Cass High and Bartow County. I have traveled extensively, chaperoning students in Canada, Mexico, Israel and Russia.