House Represenative
Sheila Jones
I contacted my senate representative Horsenia Tate several times, in which I received no response. My house representative Mrs. Shelia Jones had a chance to interview at a meeting with the community she held at Word of God Ministries. She defined the problem as a wakeup call to Georgia policymakers, parents, students, teachers, and the community. Everyone begin to be alarmed how the changing percentage rate going from 80% to a diminishing 67%, this has been a problem but no one has addressed it with policy. House bill 19, main goal is to keep students in school longer so they can graduate. If more students continue to dropout at this rate, our communities are going to be full of those individuals who cannot get a job because they do not have the basic requirement of a high school diploma. In today’s society a high school diploma does not hold as much encumbrance as it used to when Mrs. Jones stated she graduated.
Mrs. Jones, community leaders, parents, and teachers describe the issue the same way, but there are some of her colleagues who feel that students should not be forced to stay in school to interrupt the students who want to be in attendance to get an education. When do we as adults give children a option if they want to go to school, it should not be a choice, but a priority. Mrs. Jones feels that it starts in the community it is the hub where children are the most outside of school, this is why she had the meeting a Word of God Ministries to speak on several issues within their district. The more parents in the community that care and push the issue of our children education the more change will come in district 53 (Jones, April 2013).
Mrs. Jones, community leaders, parents, and teachers describe the issue the same way, but there are some of her colleagues who feel that students should not be forced to stay in school to interrupt the students who want to be in attendance to get an education. When do we as adults give children a option if they want to go to school, it should not be a choice, but a priority. Mrs. Jones feels that it starts in the community it is the hub where children are the most outside of school, this is why she had the meeting a Word of God Ministries to speak on several issues within their district. The more parents in the community that care and push the issue of our children education the more change will come in district 53 (Jones, April 2013).