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I was invited to speak at the Association of School Boards Michigan (MASB) 2008 Annual Fall Conference Traverse City, Michigan. I am a member of the Veteran school board author of several books on leadership and governance of the school, and was a columnist and chief editor of the American School Board Journal. He mentioned Art of school management and my presentations were well received.

I was born in South Georgia and I spent my whole life there. I have no drawl, but I have a slight accent, light at home, may be more pronounced (in comparison) in Michigan. After my presentation, I was failing in his wanderings through Store the station. He had an outstanding selection of Life is good merchandise and some of them even went on sale. He enjoyed sailing and replied: "No, thanks" to their offer of help. Apart from these three words all that I said was: "Yes, I need an XL "and" Thank you for your help, "until I started dating.

She said: "You a charming accent. "

"I focus on a house in the South."

She laughed and asked, "Are you the Tidewater?

Recounting the conversation later, back home in Georgia, the son of my university junior acres offered wise my accent was "Okefenokee in Tidewater. "is not intended as a compliment.

My ancestors were among the first English settlers in the Tidewater region in Virginia, but anxious because they were moved south and west long ago. To the ear of Michigan, I think the southern accent it resembles another. For Southerners, however, "flagman" and "mountain" are similar and are not an accent with which one wishes to speak.

The accents are different, but the problems faced by school districts are very similar. Georgia and Michigan have a mixture of large districts, cities (Detroit and the metropolitan region of Atlanta) and rural districts. In both states, large districts, urban areas receive the most attention (And funding). The rural school districts are struggling across America. Our politicians do not students in rural areas of neglect is not trivial, generations of poverty prevention. Although none of our leaders have verbalized a malicious intent, his actions always articulated, "These children do not matter."

They are important. Their children and grandchildren about. However, we unaccountably after a journey that will create Snopes today Benseys and Walden. (These are "white trash Southerners, contained in Snuff Erskine Caldwell Road) We can do better, and we must.
The limits of one or our most neglected regions have changed over the years. This region aristide blue, and the principle referred to almost all of southern Georgia, a large part of southeast Alabama and Florida Panhandle. Some now consider only a handful of counties in the south of our state and others in Alabama and Florida. lines of demarcation that will satisfy the most from the starting just below Macon, Georgia, following the Fall Line in west Montgomery, Alabama, south of the enclave, then east to Lake City, Florida. Here the boundary turns north, running in the general area of the Suwannee River and the border Western Okefenokee Swamp. At one point on the Okefenokee wave, the boundary looks the leaders of North and West toward Macon.

The region contains large cities, but the major population centers include Dothan, Enterprise and Troy, Alabama; Albany, Americus, Thomasville, Tifton, Valdosta, and Vidalia, Georgia, and Marianna and Tallahassee Florida. All products – and everything else – have extremely high rates of poverty. Today, as in many history of Georgia, the region is undoubtedly a place aristide bluish relative isolation that lack of economic opportunity, particularly in relation to "The other Georgia" Atlanta – Metro and the northern counties.

Aristida stricta, a native grass that has been for millennia coverage rattlesnakes and quail, the shields of children abandoned at the sight of politicians in Atlanta. Its relative invisibility makes these vulnerable children and easy to ignore. Even in the unlikely event that all parents, grandparents and others has been the election day, their representation can not approach the typical child of a northern Georgia. Just as a regressive tax or fixed is heavier for the poor, the Georgia "austerity cuts" are poorly rural systems are much richer than their counterparts in northern Georgia. And nobody no one cares.

Maybe I should become a non-profit and commercial air Like other parts of the Third World? With images candy to children with big eyes and legends that read: "For just a dollar a day can help a child Aristide blue" or "Request Great instead This morning a Venti, and use the difference to help educate a child in the region aristide blue. I guarantee you would have more chance to get closer politicians. With increasing impunity because they have absconded with it, have consistently moved much of the Constitution of the State obligation educate their students to local taxpayers. They have turned a deaf ear to constituents and has ignored the plight of Georgia's most vulnerable citizens.

Never saw my state of cruel or insensitive, but I'm at a loss for any other explanation. How else can we explain the willful neglect – Particularly when the consequences of this neglect are deeper than they've ever been? Our actions (or inactions) today have deep implications for the future.

Similar situations exist in our country. What our students speak of Tidewater, Okefenokee, Yat, Boontling, Appalachian English, Florida Cracker, Wawarsing, Yooper, or one of dozens of regional dialects, funding for public education has come a critical point. We must speak with one voice – a wonderful mixture of dialects – and demand our politicians to fulfill their moral obligations and Constitutional educating our children.