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	<title>Chatham County School Daze</title>
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	<description>School Information &#038; Analysis by Gerald Totten</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Safe and Caring schools - truth or fiction??</title>
		<link>http://chathamnc.net/tottenblog/2007/08/14/safe-and-caring-schools-truth-or-fiction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following posts are extracted from the Chatham County Online Bulletin Board:
Are our kids safe in Chatham County schools?
By Gerald Totten
Posted Saturday, August 11, 2007
chathamjournal.com/weekly
This article is also in the current print issue of the Chatham Journal newspaper
Chatham County, NC - Much has been said about one of the Chatham County School’s strategic plan goals, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School Renovation discussion</title>
		<link>http://chathamnc.net/tottenblog/2007/07/10/school-renovation-discussion/</link>
		<comments>http://chathamnc.net/tottenblog/2007/07/10/school-renovation-discussion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a hiatus because of a serious family illness, I hope to be back with some regularity beginning now.
Yesterday&#8217;s Board of Education meeting was a long one but one which was again overdue.  The rumor about the Board of Commissioners giving the school system another $6 million was squelched.  Simply stated there has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report of weekly events (14-21 May)</title>
		<link>http://chathamnc.net/tottenblog/2007/05/22/report-of-weekly-events-14-21-may/</link>
		<comments>http://chathamnc.net/tottenblog/2007/05/22/report-of-weekly-events-14-21-may/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2007 00:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Post 24 gives a report of my activities for the week primarily concerning events and time spent on school matters.  This post will have some of the meat of what took place in those events.
The high school tour on Thursday was designed to inform the Board of Commissioners of the condition of the schools [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A week of a board member</title>
		<link>http://chathamnc.net/tottenblog/2007/05/22/a-week-of-a-board-member/</link>
		<comments>http://chathamnc.net/tottenblog/2007/05/22/a-week-of-a-board-member/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2007 00:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of posts on the Chatham Journal&#8217;s Bulletin Board chide Board of Education members for sitting on their posteriors and not doing anything about the schools.  The following is just my events as a board member beginning 14 May and ending at 6 p.m. yesterday.  
14 May - Board of Education meeting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Board of Education meeting, 14 May 2007</title>
		<link>http://chathamnc.net/tottenblog/2007/05/15/board-of-education-meeting-14-may-2007/</link>
		<comments>http://chathamnc.net/tottenblog/2007/05/15/board-of-education-meeting-14-may-2007/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2007 14:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night&#8217;s meeting was largely taken up with the first reading of new and revised personnel policies.  The length of time taken to discuss the policies may have caused some visitors to leave but those revisions and confirmations were way overdue and long awaited for clarification purposes.  This series was probably the largest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Board of Education called meeting, 8 May</title>
		<link>http://chathamnc.net/tottenblog/2007/05/09/board-of-education-called-meeting-8-may/</link>
		<comments>http://chathamnc.net/tottenblog/2007/05/09/board-of-education-called-meeting-8-may/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2007 00:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After excellent presentations by the contracted architects and the soil and wetlands survey professionals, the Board of Education voted unanimously to procede with the next step in developing the Jack Bennett Road property for a new high school.  Several questions remain such as a wider entrance into the property, a professional survey and siting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North Chatham School PTSA meeting</title>
		<link>http://chathamnc.net/tottenblog/2007/05/09/north-chatham-school-ptsa-meeting/</link>
		<comments>http://chathamnc.net/tottenblog/2007/05/09/north-chatham-school-ptsa-meeting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2007 11:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a pleasure to attend a Parent-Teacher-Student Association meeting last night with every chair filled!  I didn&#8217;t count the attendees but the multi-purpose room was packed, a fact I&#8217;d like to see at every PTSA meeting I attend.  Only through such well-conducted meetings and participation by the members and guests can sincere, effective [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Northwood&#8217;s Site Based Committee meeting</title>
		<link>http://chathamnc.net/tottenblog/2007/04/06/northwoods-site-based-committee-meeting/</link>
		<comments>http://chathamnc.net/tottenblog/2007/04/06/northwoods-site-based-committee-meeting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 3 April Northwood High School&#8217;s Site Based Committee held a meeting to discuss concerns of teachers, students and parents about the environment there.  Invited were members of the Board of Education (BOEd) and three of us were able to attend.
The major concerns were safety, class size and space.  Nothing new to some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Northwood High Security and Maintenance Issues</title>
		<link>http://chathamnc.net/tottenblog/2007/04/03/northwood-high-security-and-maintenance-issues/</link>
		<comments>http://chathamnc.net/tottenblog/2007/04/03/northwood-high-security-and-maintenance-issues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pittsboro, NC - Facility concerns of Northwood High School as reported in last weekâ€™s edition of the Chatham News and Record were fairly reported last week. What is somewhat ludicrous was the spin doctorâ€™s comments attributed to the spokesperson for the schoolâ€™s central office.
That POD (a unit comprised of several trailers joined to provide classroom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Board of Education meeting, 26 March 2007</title>
		<link>http://chathamnc.net/tottenblog/2007/04/02/board-of-education-meeting-26-march-2007/</link>
		<comments>http://chathamnc.net/tottenblog/2007/04/02/board-of-education-meeting-26-march-2007/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2007 01:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interested crowd of spectators and contributors which added dimension to the meeting.  
Major points covered were a suggestion Chatham County abolish paddling as discipline, a presentation refining Board suggestions for some improvements to Northwood and adoption of the proposed budget to be presented to the Chatham County Commissioners.
Questions were raised about the security and [...]]]></description>
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