Save Tucker!

Here are just a few highlights of this investigative piece that was reported by Jeff Chirico, CBS Atlanta. Marshall Orson, a seated board member in DeKalb County, has to answer to some angry parents about his emails with supporters for "Together in Atlanta," a group pushing for annexation into the city of Atlanta. The annexation would take a DeKalb icon, the Druid Hills High School, and at least two elementary schools into the city limits of Atlanta, while still the residents would still technically reside in DeKalb County.  The Fernbank Science Center and Museum, Callenwalde Fine Arts Center and other parts of DeKalb County would also become new residents of "Atlanta in DeKalb."   State Rep. Karla Drenner (D - Avondale Estates) says she is shocked to learn that a school board member would seemingly favor something that could 'decimate' the school system. Annexation opponent Dawn Forman said Orson, as an elected board member, should be opposed t...

From the first meeting until today, the Lakeside Alliance and its various named groups along with the Tucker 2015 and its various named groups have refused to talk about their plans for the school system.  In fact, they both repeatedly have stated that their fight for a city "has nothing to do with the schools."  Well, now it does.  Funny, now they aren't saying anything.  From WABE Atlanta: Druid Hills Annexation: Do Schools Stay or Go? By   ELLY YU Parents raised concerns at the Druid Hills High School PTSA meeting about a proposal to annex the school from DeKalb County into Atlanta Public Schools. Credit Elly Yu / WABE If a neighborhood gets annexed into another city, do schools go with it?  That was the question on many minds at the Druid Hills High PTSA meeting Thursday night. A crowd of about 300 hundred people met about a proposal to move the school out of DeKalb County Schools into the Atlanta Public Schools syste...