My experience

“Yesterday I was riding down Hopewell Church Road. A van full of what appeared to be migrant workers were right on my bumper. The van was weaving a lot so I’m just guessing what that meant. I kept tapping my break to make them back off. They didn’t.

“I slowed down to the point that they went around me and they almost ran off the road when they came back in the lane. I should have gotten a tag number but I was concentrating on self-preservation at the moment. So I wonder how many of the wrecks we read about have events such as this tied to them?”

Prehistory

“I’m not sure what digging up a prehistoric creature means to us today. Maybe that time could be better spent.”

Resources issue

“As long as funding the staff and programs for GEAR takes resources from my child’s school, I cannot support it. The superintendent is not honoring the promise that services would remain the same at the other elementary schools.

“This is just one more of his efforts to appeal to a group he believes to be influential. He does not consider the needs of all of our students or financial responsibility.”

In response

“Dear Colquitt County, dream! Invest! Diversify! This is neither the moment in time to engage in internal squabbles, nor to sit back and allow Moultrie to survive by assimilating our smaller towns.

“If in-ground trash cans get your shorts in a wad or you’re jealous about GEAR or you’re too selfish to want our children to have a playground, then shame on you.

“How petty. In contrast, if you are willing to fight for education, justice, and growth, don’t sit back. Document and expose.

“Forget about attracting intelligent, successful people to our county if the best we can do is entice them with falsehoods about our ‘excellent’ school system and community organizations.

“Let’s stop fighting each other, or worse, being silently complicit cowards, and instead let’s light a torch to make this A County Worth Choosing.”

Common sense

“I heard this many years ago, and it stuck with me. ‘It’s not the leader or educator who uses the longest, fanciest words, but the one with lots of common sense and logic who will get the most results and impress the most people.’”

Makes me sick

“It makes me sick to my stomach to read Rant & Rave each day. We live in a great community, and we have awesome schools.

“Why can’t people address their issues with the appropriate people instead of blasting them in the newspaper?

“If you’re upset with a principal, did you call him? Did you call the superintendent? Have you been to a BOE meeting?

“Complaining in Rant & Rave or on Facebook solves nothing.”