Congratulations to Grayson High School state champion Rams Football Team. They were recognized by the school board for their accomplishment!

Congratulations Ms. Radloff. I'm sure you will do your usual excellent job as Chairman.

Mr. Burns and Ms. Putnam,
I find it strange that you made "a Berkeley Lake woman has said she will run for the seat held by Murphy" into a hyperlink without even giving her name.The Berkeley Lake woman has a name...it’s Jen Falk. She is a leader focused on transparency, accountability and equity for all children in Gwinnett County.

Thanks for the comment. However, our stories and links have to appeal to a wide constituency, and that particular name might not be recognizable to people outside her home area.

Mr. Burns,
I appreciate you taking the time to reply. However, since this is the Peachtree Corners-Berkeley Lake Patch and Ms. Falk has lived in Berkeley Lake for 15 years, I believe this IS her "home area" and you could have at least printed her name. Thanks!

Thanks again. I am editor of Suwanee Patch. This story was shared with Peachtree Corners-Berkeley Lake Patch. I will leave it for Ms. Putnam to handle that site.

The Gwinnett County School Board desperately needs an overhaul. The Board, as currently constituted, does not look like the students in the system. The Board's members need to be diverse and younger.

Gwinnett's school doesn't need the kind of diversity games used in such "successful" school boards as Atlanta, DeKalb and Clayton, all seriously less successful than the Gwinnett board. The only issue is whether the board is doing a good job, and by any fair standard they have been doing a great job, dealing successfully with expansion of the system and a great many changes, including diversity. The correct approach is to change the current board slowly so as not to trifle with our current success. The correct approach to diversity is not to force it for its own sake, but rather to let the board become more diverse over time as it will as diverse people become more established in the community.

Wilbanks runs the county. The BOE has no power b/c they are mindless twits.

Courtney, you cite no facts to support your mere assertions about the BOE and Mr. Wilbanks.

I support him is that he is home grown, so perhaps really understands the system. Contrast this with such "successful" school systems as Atlanta and DeKalb and the increasingly troubled Cobb. All use the much touted "natIonwide search" approach for a superintendent (which really abdicates board responsibility to a search firm), and nowhere are the results as good as in Gwinnett.

The reason is that this search is merely a clever way for whatever mafia - school superintendent, business executive, police chief, ad nauseam to promote the interests of its members over those of society, often with disastrous results. in order to maximize its members' contracts via a supposed "usual" benefit level.

It's a species of the "management is management" approach which has ruined this country by, inter alia, preferring the inexperienced twit out of some graduate school to the experienced person who knows the business, not the norm in the countries which are eating our lunch. Happily, in Mr. Wilbanks we have a superintendent who "knows the business" of the Gwinnett schools. He is not young, and when he leaves you should hope the BOE has the wisdom to take the same approach instead of the toxic "nationwide search" approach. People are coming here because we are an educational oasis in the desert around us, and for this you can thank Wilbanks and the BOE's leadership role..

Sure Gwinnett is great, but the BOE, is not fair. The checks and balancing systems is out of control just like DeKalb and Cobb. There is massive cheating just like Fulton. The teachers and administrators are not as qualified as we are led to believe.
My son attended Parkview High, for four years I complained that he was not learning. I contacted Ms. Radloff over 15 times, I sent over 50 letters to various departments. He graduated anyway. When he took the entrance exam for Gwinnett Tech, he failed, He is currently in a remedial program. Don't believe the hype. If you can't teach your child at home, or can't afford a tutor, pray.
All schools are just like any other business machine; it's just about money.
Mr. Wilbanks enjoys being a millionaire. Wouldn't you keep up a lie if you were
being paid like he is? He runs this county. Please dump this entire board when we get a chance. It is time for change. Maybe we can find someone who can work for less.

Ann, you make conflicting statements. You first say Gwinnett is great and then you say don't send your kids there??? Which one is it? And what proof do you have of massive cheating? What proof do you have that show the teachers and administrators aren't qualified?

Just curious...

Ann Henry, if you expect your accusations to have any weight they need to be supported by facts, if any.