On Tuesday, the Troup County Republican Party brought together a panel to discuss some recent educational legislative changes in Georgia, specifically about literacy.
Request for 8th Graders to march with band deniedNews
May 25, 2021
, by Lonnie Adams
EAST ELLIJAY, Ga. – In March 2021, the latest revisions to Board Policy IDE(3) were made for Competitive Interscholastic Activities. This month, Band Director David Wiebers submitted a request to allow a waiver to the policy for the band.
That waiver would allow a small number of students in the 8th grade to march with the high school band. Wiebers told the board that the waiver would help the band as it has had middle schoolers march before. With stated benefits to the students, retention rate, the high school band, and the middle school band, the request would allow the continuation of the practice in spite of the policy.