Enough! No More!

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Enough! Not again.

The healing that the Virginia Tech community keeps having to jump start has been disturbed once again. 2 students were found shot in the Jefferson National Forest. The bodies of Heidi Lynn Childs, 18, and David Lee Metzler, 19, both of the Lynchburg area, were found in the parking area of Caldwell Fields by a passerby. The campgrounds are about 15 miles north of the VT campus.

Both were good students, athletic, and highly thought of. Both students lived off campus. Ms. Childs father is with the Virginia State Police.

How much more tragedy is Tech going to have to endure? The state university was the site of a horrible massacre in April, 2007. Last January, one student beheaded another at a coffee shop on campus. Now both of these young people were found dead at a campsite popular with VT students. When is enough enough?

Full story: Manassas News and Messenger

Trailer Request Brings Out County Micro-management Team

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10 Prince William County schools will get 35 trailers. Trailers absorb student overflow when there aren’t enough classrooms for the given amount of kids. This practice has gone on for years in Prince William County.

Prince William County will soon have 400,000 residents so the need for additional school space comes as no surprise. What does cause surprise is the fact that several members of the planning commission of Prince William County took it upon themselves to admonish the school system for not holding public hearings over putting in classroom trailers.

HUH?

Either a school has enough classroom space or they don’t. If they don’t, and all closets and cubby holes have been filled with desks/kids/teachers, then trailers go in. Shouldn’t the planning commission be planning and not overstepping its bounds with the school system? Here is the first affrontery as printed in Manassas News and Messenger:

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I think the schools would do itself a favor to solicit and encourage as much public input as possible, so those decisions are made with the highest level and highest degree of public information,” said chairman Gary Friedman, who was the lone dissenter on the 10-trailer request for Glenkirk Elementary School.

“Citizen input is an invaluable part of this process,” said Brentsville District commissioner Ronald K. Burgess. “I have seen this commission turn on a dime as a result of citizen input.

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