Opinion
Thanks for the hard work
Several weeks ago my granddaughter asked if I could proctor at her school for the MCT (Mississippi Curriculum Test). I retired from the Meridian Public System and Anna knew if I could help out, I would.
The teacher of the class was absolutely wonderful. Before the students even picked up a pencil to start taking the test, you knew the teacher loved her students. Ms. Taylor said to her students that she had tried her best to teach them from August until now, things they needed to know that may be on the test, and that this test was very important. That was not all she said to them, she said “I love each of you so much, do your best class, that’s all I can ask of you." I think she was saying ‘the ball is in your court, it’s up to you now.' Ms Cynthia Taylor, I certainly hope I have not embarrassed you, but I want others to know the kind of teacher you are in the classroom. I’m sure the Meridian public school system knows, and now others will know what a good teacher you are.
I could not believe what I read about a teacher at Meridian High School was accused of violating standardized testing procedures. This is absolutely unacceptable.
Thanks, Ann Aycock Mims (my granddaughter), Ms Haley Shirley and Ms Cynthia Pouncy for asking me to proctor at Magnolia School. I am looking forward to next year.
Myrna F Crane
Retired Meridian Public School System
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Super Saints
Hell has frozen over. Pigs are flying, and when the sun rose over Bourbon Street this morning, it came up out of the west. An entire city called in sick because the party is still going on. The Saints are in the Superbowl.
I have been a Saints fan all of my life. I have been a Saints season ticket holder for years. Many years. I’ve stuck by them through thick and thin, through one-win seasons, through last minute fumbles and interceptions, through ill-advised trades, and through amazingly poor draft decisions. All the while I’ve kept the hope alive while watching a professional football franchise display every conceivable way a game can be lost. I never wore a bag, but I have hung in there for years, many years. That is, except this year. -
State tax hike waits at the end of the standoff
While the state budget standoff continues, the fact remains that regardless who "wins" the current argument it's clear that special funds or "one-time money" and existing revenues sources won't be sufficient to carry Mississippi through the next three years of fiscal woes.
House Speaker Billy McCoy and the Democratic leadership of the House, Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant and the Republican leadership in the Senate and Gov. Haley Barbour are all on the record as seeing any new tax revenue as a political non-starter this session.
Given that fact, the options left to state government are pretty slim. Cutting spending is already on the table as Barbour has whacked some $437 million from the original 2010 fiscal year budget. - Sumrall's situation is a shame
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East Central Mississippi belongs on the Civil War map
Re-enactors will be fighting the war between the states all over again during the Civil War Sesquicentennial 2011-2015.
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