Word: gwinnett
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CYNTHIA MCKINNEY (D) District 4 (Atlanta suburbs--most of De Kalb County; part of Gwinnett County...
...DARE, what? Before DARE, says David Seibles, a 10-year veteran with the Gwinnett County police department in Georgia, "it used to be that you'd come in once a year and say, 'Don't do drugs,' and by the time you'd get to the front door, the kids had forgotten everything you said." Says Debbie Allred, principal of Cedar Hill Elementary School in Gwinnett County: "If we didn't have DARE, we'd miss it tremendously. It would be a great loss...
...high school teacher in Snellville, Georgia, was suspended and could be fired because he wouldn't observe a new state law requiring schools to hold a moment of silence each day. Instead, on South Gwinnett High School's opening day yesterday, American government teacher Brian Bown filled the minute with a discussion of the new law. Although the law's language says it isn't meant to impose school prayer, Bown and others contend that's the real intent. It's the kind of constitutional issue that could make its way to the Supreme Court...
...publicize the Forum's wider agenda. Opponents of OBE have managed to galvanize concern to the point that parents in suburban Atlanta stick leaflets on car windshields denouncing the "dumbing down" of classes and the substitution of "psychotherapy" for the three Rs. Debi Schwier, an anti-OBE organizer in Gwinnett County, denounces such reforms as "one of the most blatant shifts in the history of the U.S. from what they call the Judeo-Christian ethic to an atheistic, humanistic ethic." She fears that the schools may tamper with her daughter's parent-instilled understanding of God. "Their goal seems...
Ironically, suburbanites who bristle at the thought of federal or state dollars going to support inner cities can spend like liberals on a spree when their own communities stand to benefit. In recent years the voters of Georgia's Gwinnett County, a mostly white, Republican enclave outside Atlanta, have approved road and library bond issues, as well as a special recreation tax and a 1% local sales tax to finance roads, a new courthouse and a jail...