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Bean’s election predictions “This time next week, Stacey Campfield’s going to be cleaning out his Nashville office. He and Steve “Extra Crispy” Hall can discuss their future plans on the way back to Knoxville because Hall’s going to lose his primary, too.” Ouch! Betty Bean’s not mincing words with her predictions for Aug. 7.
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A-B-C’s of politics Have you got what it takes to run for office? Larry Van Guilder tells you the A-B-C’s: “For your supporters: Always Bring Cash. “Let’s recap. Be a man, raise the voting bar, get a family, off with their heads, guard the border and cash is king. See you in Nashville!
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Andrew Fritts, left, and Carter Sams show their “alien” Lego creations to Robin Marsh, co-owner of Beyond a Brick.
By Nancy Anderson
Interns finish Shopper-News interns finished the summer with a picnic at Oakes Daylilies. They will start high school next week, but on this day they were still kids.
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Food fight rages August is a good month on the Cumberland Avenue Strip. Anticipation of the influx of student consumers that fall semester at the University of Tennessee will bring starts to build and hits a high point with the first home football game (this year, Aug. 31). But as the Shopper-News reported last week, the runup to the new school year is off to something less than a Big Orange high note for 10 Cumberland District business owners and managers.
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Meet Brian Hann As the new chair of the Knoxville Greenways Commission, Brian Hann sees connections as top priority. “There are just a lot of missing links, and I think it behooves us as a city to connect those missing links and allow for more mobility,” says Hann, known for his achievements as president of the Appalachian Mountain Bike Club. “Reaching from the center city outward is where I would like to see the focus and just start moving with the connections that are missing from the center out.”
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Robin Marsh faced approximately 150 children and adults at the Karns branch library without a plan. She passed out no blueprints, no follow-the-numbers guides and only a basic three words of instructions: “Build something amazing!” Marsh then dumped a huge pile of Legos on the library floor and got out of the way. Marsh is co-owner with Paula Suchomski of Beyond a Brick, a STEM-based educational program
By Cindy Taylor Four Northwest Knox County schools will be among 52 schools countywide to serve free breakfast and lunch to all students this year. One principal estimated a savings of $720 per child per year to families who buy both meals each day.
Community Eligibility Provision will eliminate the need for schools to collect paper applications. There are no qualifiers for students who attend a qualified school regardless of income. “CEP is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which provides criteria to assess which
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schools qualify,” said Jon Dickl, executive director of school nutrition for Knox County Schools. “Through this federally funded program, all students in the qualifying schools receive meals at no charge.” To take advantage of the breakfast, students will need to be in
their seats no later than 7:30 a.m. as the meal will be served in the classrooms. Lunch will be served in the cafeteria as usual. Knox County qualified schools include Northwest Middle, Norwood Elementary, Pleasant Ridge and Ridgedale.
Reinstated teacher hopes for new beginning By Betty Bean They called him “Big Rich” when he was an All-American basketball player at Maryville College, and Richard Suttle, who stands 6-7, remembers those years as the happiest of his life. Now that he’s won back his job with Knox County Schools, he’s ready to turn the page on his worst year and is looking forward to going back to simply being called “teacher.” Suttle believes he has been publicly labeled a bad teacher, despite hearing officer H. Scott Ream’s reversal of Superintendent James McIntyre’s decision to fire him. Ream was scathing in his criticism of the McIntyre administration for pursuing a tenure revocation and made a point of complimenting Suttle’s ability to explain basic algebra in a way math-phobic students could understand. Last week, he got his first paycheck in 10 months – a year’s salary minus a 90-day suspension without pay (a punishment he doesn’t believe is deserved),
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Ambrose Shelton, 11, says the very best and most versatile Lego piece is the plate because it opens up creative possibilities and makes large structures more stable. Ambrose was making good use of his creativity at the Lego Build at the Karns library last week. Photos by Nancy Anderson
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in Knoxville, and is director of the Lego competition at the Tennessee Valley Fair. The Lego Build at the library on Tuesday, July 29, was designed for fun and to help promote and educate interested kids about the Lego competitions held annually at the fair. Marsh gave tips and tricks to the build-happy kids and encouraged them to simply “be creative.” She hopes by visiting area libraries as part of the summer reading
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bubbled in answers in haphazard fashion, just to get through them. Administrators argue that these are the students with the potential to show the most improvement, which Suttle says ignores the realities of kids who may be dealing with family crises, financial, health or relationship trouble, or simply the frustration of not “getting” math anymore. “I was told by my numeracy coach, ‘If you have a class of 20, and three of them don’t try and Richard Suttle breaks down TVAAS just ‘Christmas tree’ the answer sheet, there’s no way to recover Photo by Betty Bean from that,’ ” Suttle said. Simply put, Suttle’s argument is and he is relieved to end a year of a direct challenge to the system of stress and financial hardship. But here is some of what he be- teacher evaluation now in use. lieves has been lost in the discussion: He taught repeaters at Gibbs The early years High School – sophomores, juniors Suttle was a member of Farraand even seniors who had failed gut High School’s class of 1976, the freshman algebra, sometimes last graduating class at the “old” more than once. Often, these stu- high school. He didn’t play team dents became so frustrated with sports but always loved basketball standardized tests that they gave and played recreationally every up trying to answer questions and chance he got, especially after he
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went on to the University of Tennessee. He was playing a pickup game when he caught the eye of coach Tom Deaton during the summer after his freshman year. Deaton, who coached at Bearden High School and also assisted UT coach Don DeVoe, offered Suttle the opportunity to walk on at UT, but before he made a decision, he heard from Maryville College head basketball coach Rick Byrd (now at Belmont), who invited him out to the school and offered him a place on the team. By fall, he was enrolled at Maryville College, majoring in physical education, minoring in math and thriving on the basketball court. He got his degree in 1981; his first job out of college was teaching math and P.E at St. Joseph School. One of his classes was algebra-readiness for 8th-graders. Two years later, Suttle moved on to South Middle School, and two years after that to South-Young High School, teaching math. To page A-3
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