Schools need improvement
So I was sitting in The Brick the other day with my friend Molly, and we were talking about the people of Milledgeville, or as many of the people who go to school here call them, “mocals” (Milledgeville locals).
Molly has worked at Buffington’s Burger Lounge for years now, and she has noticed that there are a lot of higher income people that go out to eat at the downtown restaurants. I have worked in various places in Milledgeville since I turned 15 (yes, I am a “mocal”) including Chick-fil-A, Quiznos and Applebee’s. At my time served in those various places, most of our clientele was lower income.
Living in this town for as long as I have (since I was 12) and working in this town for as long as I have and now going to college in this same town, I have noticed something about it, which is a major problem throughout the state, but Milledgeville is hit hard especially. I think it took me going to school here to be able to step outside of the city, because the college is a little city in itself.
The state of public education in Baldwin County is deplorable, and until there is a major overhaul, or a charter school, or something done about it, it will never get better.
If your family has any money in this town then you don’t send your kids to public school, more than likely. With John Milledge Academy and Georgia Military Prep School as other options, there is no reason to subject your kids to the state of public schools in Baldwin County if you don’t have too. This doesn’t help the problem.
The people who have no choice but to send their kids to public school are going to see the lack of taxpayer money that’s being spent on them compared to the private schools, they are just going to get frustrated and stop caring. The teachers who work there are going to more than likely get fed up with the parents and students not caring, and not care themselves. This just sends the public education system into a never-ending cycle, in which it never gets better. Many people will point to the student to teacher ratio as the problem in situations like this, but according to SchoolDigger, JMA has an approximate ration of 14 to 6, while BHS is about 13 to 1 and Georgia Military has the highest at 20 to 1.
I don’t have the answer to fix the problem, but something needs to be done. Someone needs to step up with an answer. Otherwise this never-ending cycle will continue and the state of public education will continue to decline.
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