I read all of the comments and it really all boils down to a racial thing! The black people took over and turned Clayton Co into a giant PIT! No one can sell a house since people are scared to live in the nasty place! When are you black people gonna start acting like humans and clean up!

I cannot believe some of these comments. You all are so miss-informed! First, CC had until the end of the school year to be re-instated and none of this will even matter. If they are re-instated their accreditation will be back and no one will be affected. Second, seniors that are graduating this year will have come from an accreditation high school because the decision does not go into affect until the end of the school year. Third, the hope scholarship will still be in effect for the junior ans sophomore students until 2011! Fourth, CC can become accreditatied by anoth accreditation divison, SACS CASI is not the only one! And who's to say that CC wont get their act together before the end of the school year! You all need to stop all of this bashing and make sure you do your part in helping all these poor 50,000 student you keep talking about!

"He sure does be spending alot of time on here writing comments under fictional names. Whose doing his show today?" Nice grammar- must be a CC grad.

I am adding to another’s post here about black culture and whether it improved socially or economically. The fact is that there has never been a black culture of any great historical importance, period. That is not to say that there are no wonderfully small and laid back black cultures, but as a whole; there has never been one that added a great wonder to the world or even built a great society at all.

There are those that would argue that the blacks built the pyramids and I have heard the arguments and seen the revisionist posters regarding this. I can not begin to explain how low it is for one, or a group of people, to steal another’s culture. That is despicable and lends credence that blacks are thieves. It is a well known fact that the Arabs, Egyptians, and possibly Jewish slaves, built the pyramids. I know that they haven’t quite laid out the how it was done, but the fact is blacks did not build the pyramids.

I was told that white people burned their great library at Alexandria (Cairo) after stealing the black’s knowledge, made them ignorant to keep them in slavery…. This is not only incorrect but totally absurd! This “activist” does not even know history. The library was built by Alexander (a whitey) and the library was destroyed about four times (research it yourself) with the last destruction at the hands of the Muslims. You know them….those peace loving practitioners of a violent religion!

Regarding the slavery issue we all have been brainwashed into believing it as being caused by the white man, the American white man… well the truth is black slavery was started by blacks in Africa because of their own tribal warfare, sold them to Arabs, who traded them to Portuguese thereby introducing it in to Europeans who made it a profitable venture.

Well what about now? Well you can expect more of them same incompetence with black leaders. Don’t believe me? Look around the metro area. Why did Sandy Springs become a city? Why is Dunwoody seeking city status? What about the Nichols courthouse shooting? I have a friend who told the Chief Deputy at the time about the lax security at the courthouse back in 1993. The warning and advice went in one ear and out the other. In a nut shell, the cause of that incident rests upon political correctness. Hiring those who were welfare recipients and had no skills but dropping French fries. Then there are the overweight deputies who get winded walking down the hall, just dripping in sweat from the exertion of the steps to get from point A to point B.

But I digress for a moment; the true cause of this school issue rests with CARELESSNESS, PRIDE, and ENVY. The voters elected incompetent leaders, doing so because of race, and got what they paid for. And in the end no one thought about the children; the ones who actually suffered the most.

I live and work for Clayton County BOE, although this is very sad day! I truely, THANK YOU, SACS, for not looking the other way, I pray the focus will truely be on the education for our CHILDREN and community in which we live, and should be able to be PROUD of! THANK YOU!!

As a 27-year resident of Clayton County and former teacher in the school system, I see the need to point something out to those folks trying to make a racial issue out of this debacle.

Even when CC had a majority white population and whites ran the schools, this system was nothing to brag about. Its students generally posted the lowest average test scores in the metro area and only a handful went on to finish college.

Some of these posts make it sound as though CC schools went from being the best in the state to the worst in the nation. Even though it has produced a few outstanding graduates, the CC school system has never risen above medicority. Its decline, while sad, has not been precipitous.

I have been working in CC for over two years now. I have coworkers who grew up here, and they describe the area as a place that was "once a great place to live". It obviously is no longer such.

The mindset of the urban Black community is to blame for this situation. T-shirts proudly proclaiming "we took Clayton" are a fine example of this line of thinking. Yes, you certainly did overtake Clayton...and how has the area been improved by this accomplishment?

Higher crime rates, lower property values, deteriorating school systems, increased gang activity and drug use...these are the hallmarks of a region which has been overtaken by the Black community. When your children idolize thugs, pimps, drug dealers, and murderers...when they are taught they do not have to conform to civilized standards of behavior...when they have been led to believe the government and society at large owes them something because of the color of their skin...when it becomes acceptable to play the 'race card' whenever you are asked to be accountable for your actions...these are the things that erode the Black community, and cause the end result we are seeing now in Clayton.

Are all Blacks this way? Absolutely not. I know and have worked with many fine people who I respect and trust, and they are Black. They are also hard working, honest people who believe it is their own responsibility to provide for the well being of their family. It's simply too bad they aren't the majority in their own racial demographic.

As a Clayton County resident for over 36 years, I must applaud our governor for ordering those four defiant board members out of office! This is a giant step to repairing the damage to our school system. I also think that SACS has been more than generous to Clayton County in its accreditation evaluation! However, my heart breaks for our children.

Ms. Judy

Who are you talking about when you say "they"? Don't be a coward. Say what you mean and don't beat around the bush!

Name one program the goverment does right.....and you people send your kids to the government to be educated! Most of you probably think government schools are free.

CLAYTON COUNTY WELCOME TO THE NEW AMERICA! This school system is only a micro-cosmism of what is in store for this country and her people! Those being removed were incompetent to begin with and were voted in only because their race. I used to live in Clayton County and it has become a third world region.

There is an oligarchy running this country, Bush is a puppet, WHO MUST DESTROY AMERICA to gain the world! They are winning with their many ways to divide her with; brainwashing us with their brand of social equality, fairness, race issues, divorce, diversity, etc. All the while they encourage illegal immigration from our southern boarder AND WE DO NOTHING!

It is known that to destroy America, you must destroy the middle class. It is the central core of her values, skills, and economy... HER STRENGTH! The root word for "Diversity" is "Divide" which our pledge of allegiance warned would make us fall! How many elections have been stolen from the actual citizens by voter fraud?

There is no more patriotism, poorly taught US history, no sense of a unified people, drugged and medicated kids, and women with some social evil to vanquish. Divorce is all too common - which destroys the family; the foundation block for any society. Destroy the family; the rest will follow. How do you destroy the family? The battle of the sexes! How do you destroy the next generation of men? Have insecure, self indulgent women who believe that little boys, who are being boys, must have something wrong with them and give them a pill. It was ADD then ADHD, now it is Autism.

If “others” are to be “empowered” that, by inverse logic, dictates that someone must be "disempowered". Who is it that going to be? I saw a report that states that we will no longer be the majority by 2042! I can't believe that we are allowing ourselves to be disenfranchised, thinned down, and bred out from our land, with illegal immigration and the importation of every ethnicity from around the world; and you wonder why there is a problem. We still cling to this false sense that we can have the life our parents and grandparents had. Our children WILL NOT!

This generation is so self-indulgent, it will not think of the next generation which is the point of having kids; but why worry about that when you can just have them ripped out of the womb and be flat on your back by the end of the week. If you can't support your society because your population is in decline... IMPORT!

WE DID THIS TO OURSELVES BY ALLOWING IT TO HAPPEN!

LIBERALISM IS A MENTAL DISORDER

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. --Thomas Jefferson

Fundamental Principle of Justice: Do not make equal what is unequal! -- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal." Nietzsche
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I am reading the other comments and have come to the conclusion that most of the writers are graduates of the Clayton County school system.

I am so GLAD this happened!!! I am a resident of the county and this is exactly what we deserve. It seems thaty when something goes wrong they put the race card in play. Well this time it is totally correct. We put them in office and look what happened. We cannot blame anyone but ourselves. We did not got to the polls to vote for the right reason. We voted for the color not the qualifications. Well Clayton look what you finally did!. property values are dead in the water for at least 2 years and we have the highest forclousures in the state. I guess this is what we have to live with. The high school kids of CC will have a BLACK mark on their records for the mess we created by voting BLACK. How ironic, don't you think. Well maybe this is a blessing, as the element that was dumped here and the element that will hopefully be leaving will soon see the light and go away. Clayton County is a good county but as we all know, when the property values go south the the smart poeple come back to buy cheap and the better way of life and continue. You know what I mean too!!

That just my thoughts!!!

This entire debacle is a management issue. It is the mishandling and mismanagement from the top officials at the school board that cost this systemm its accreditation. I am sure that the kids get just as mediocre an education as other school systems around the state. Just look at the test scores...not the best, but not the worst either. As soon as people realize that "education" is not what schools do, they will realize that true education comes from living and upbringing. Schools train people. The same way a trade school trains one for a particular job, so does public grade school. It trains students to be just good enough to be a contributing member of society, i.e., taxpayer. With goals that low, it is easy to see how students in all systems fall by the wayside.

Yes the Governor and City of Atlanta sent folks to this county to "clean up for the olympic games" and now this is what we have. Why dosen't the Governor and Legislature disolve the clayton county government and give the area back to Fayette and Henry where it came from?

This is not the only county that is providing inferior education. Home schoolers are exploding in numbers. It is our responsibility to educate our kids. Don't turn them over to the government for their education.

Shame on you Clayton School Board Members!

Dekalb County this is your probable future.

Hope this can serve as a lesson for school systems across the country. The real losers in this are 50,000 innocent kids. Their elders LET THEM DOWN for not getting involved and voting for COMPETENT SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS; DID NOT HOLD THE BOARD TO ACCOUNT; DID NOT CHECK OUT THEIR CREDENTIALS PRIOR TO VOTING FOR SELF SERVING INCOMPETENTS; and sadly, ONLY HAVE THEMSELVES TO BLAME!

Learning and education are not easy. Parents have to be involved; discipline has to be applied; and individual support has to be given to that child.

Now -- as a result of the voter's lack of action, property values will plummet; businesses will no doubt look elsewhere to set up shop; and thousands of kids are going to be in limbo!

Where are your school board members now? What did they do for your child?

Maybe it is now time for parents to seriously consider home schooling, and school choice.

Clayton Counties lost is a poor reflection not only on the county but the state as a whole. It is a national embarrasment. Now What? for the 50,000 students.

Poor kids!!!
Just think of all the juniors and seniors, who counted on some type of scholarship to go to college!

Pray for those kids.

Who is really at fault here, after all it was the voters of Clayton County who elected the present school board. They got what they voted for, the problem is the children suffer and they had nothing to do with it.

We need SAC's to oversea our politicians in DC and give recommendations. I am proud someone stood up for what is right

Complete Incompetence at its finest, too bad the kids have to pay for it.

Let the governor get involve to remove the maneuvers and replace it with flowers. Clayton education board is holing the students’ hostage.

It is my humble opinion that the school board should be removed and a special election held with former Board members barred from running. It is pathetic that these kids will suffer because the School Board chooses to act like children themselves. The taxpayers and parents of Clayton County students should be marching on the School Board office with torches and pitchforks. How bad does the performance of elected officials have to get before the Governor steps in? Isn't it about time that we, as citizens, start demanding a higher level of performance from our employees? As high and mighty at these folks at the Clayton County School Board think that they are, they are merely employees of the citizens of Clayton County. Fire them all and start over. You couldn't possibly do any worse!!

I truly feel sorry for the students and residents of Clayton county. Sorry that they have a complete set of bumbling idiots on their school board. And to think that members of the board had the nerve to argue against their removal, saying that "they didn't know what they did wrong". Idiots. Complete idiots. Remove them, then prosecute them for willful misconduct and mismanagement of the school system. Then let's see if they can actually hold on to a job in the private sector. In the mean time, get rid of the superintendent. You know, the one that SACS specifically said was not qualified.

Way to GO!!