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These people have no shame.
Embarrassed again.

Wasn't Mr Green going to promote/teach character for the students? Where will they find the roll models?

Watch the propaganda machine/damage control ( Ms.
Carr ) spin this one.

As I stated on the front page article, this is a shock and it truly saddens me to lose such a great administrator. I hope that Mr Yeager will be proven innocent of any charges. This is a huge black eye on our school, but we have great teachers, staff, students and huge parental support. We will survive and hopefully go forward in a positive way.

I just went to the school WEB page.

No mention of this issue.

I wonder why?

I had heard that Northern were doing some funny things with their enrollments.

Naughty, naughty..

This is what you get. I think Mr Green has taught someone a lesson. Perhaps things ARE changing.

This is bringing to light a big problem, in my opinion, in the school system. Parents lie all the time about where they live so their child can go to a certain school. It doesn't just happen at Northern. The problem is that when it is discovered that they are lying, no one will do anything about it. If they yell and scream and make a big enough scene, downtown will back down.

I agree that parents lie about their official residence so their children can go to certain schools. I turned in several families that were illegally attending a school outside of their district but was ignored. Nothing was done; in fact, one family was bragging in the neighborhood that someone reported them but they just told them their kids were living with grandparents (who lived in the school district they wanted) and nothing else was done.

All:

If you know of violations of the districting rules or any other violations, and your complaints are not being taken seriously, contact a school board member. Maybe they can get to the bottom of it.

Paul Daniels

If Northern wants a better football team then it needs to have a different catchment area. Bus in some of the East Gso kids.

Lilly white middle class kids will never form a winning football team.

Northern cant have it all.

Really want to stop this.
Easy to do.

All coaches must be a teacher carrying a full load.

The problem will go away.

No investigations required.

No one checks student address against attendance zones in any structured or meaningful way in GCS. While my son was a student at Summerfield Elem. he attended a BDay party of a classmate and this child lived 40 minutes from our home! Hmmm. wonder if he lived in our school attendance zone? There is no meaningful attempt to make sure students are living in the attendance zone of any of our schools. We do not have that on our radar screen, but now we are going to punish Northern just to equalize some imaginary equation? I am shocked that Jeagar was involved in something that would cost him his job. There must be something more to the story...Could we not simply ask parents to provide a utility bill at the beginning of each school year? Not that big of a deal. We could do better if we wanted to...

I believe the coaches at Northern are teaching character and values. The Varsity BASKETBALL TEAM volunteers at Summerfield Elementary every Thursday morning. Roll model? Coach K VOLUNTEERS countless hours teaching basketball to the youth in our community. He also participated in the Big Brother/Big Sister program while he was in college.

It would be impossible to find enough teachers interested in or knowledgable enough in the NCAA rules/regulations/ policies/ eligibilty/ Clearinghouse/ contacts arenas to do double duty. Teachers don't get paid enough as it is! You think they are going to want to stay after school another 6 hours when they have papers to grade, and lessons to plan?

The community needs to rally around Northern. The county did a tremendous disservice to three wonderful, intelligent, caring men and they continue to drag TEENAGERS through the mud. If the county thinks they are going to get away with the way they treated Yeager, Force and Lawson easily they are crazy. Northern supporters should make a scene...and I'll be right there with them!

Dudley Dad said

“It would be impossible to find enough teachers interested in or knowledgeable enough in the NCAA rules/regulations/ policies/ eligibility/ Clearinghouse/ contacts arenas to do double duty. Teachers don't get paid enough as it is! You think they are going to want to stay after school another 6 hours when they have papers to grade, and lessons to plan?”

Come on. It does not have to be this way. This is basketball, football, etc. This is not particle physics or international law. If the coach and kids are really staying 5 or 6 hrs after school for this we are really crazy. No wonder few student athletes. Homework!

When I went to high school (Dark Ages), the football coach was the Physical Education instructor and Athletic Director. The basketball coach taught chemistry, the baseball coach taught physics, the track coach taught English etc. And by the way all of these people were Columbia graduates.

Before each season they posted try outs. Then the school also ran (Athletic Director), intramurals for those that could not make the teams. Every one had an opportunity to “play”. By 6:30 or sooner all was done.

We turned out some pretty good students for college. Two of our black track stars were
National honor society. One had a career as a prominent neurosurgeon surgeon the other a college engineering professor. Our basket ball center was of all things also the foot ball center and a baseball pitcher. He became an engineering executive with a world class company. Others became lawyers, teachers, Dr. Etc. Every one was a walk on.

It can work. We don’t want it too. We are too worried about winning.
Then, kids who played, all won in the end. Now many of the kids with the big athletic scholarships never graduate college.

We deserve the mess we are in. The parents have done it to themselves.

The other solution is anything goes. Stop worrying about.

I agree that if all coaches were also full-load teachers, that would make serious changes happen.

The whole thing reeks of the over-emphasis on sports in our society at the expense of real education.