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Bulldogs’ coach off limits to media this season
BY ELIOT DUKE
Staff Writer
Thomasville High School var
sity football coach AUen Brown
wiU not be talking to the media
this season.
Brown did not attend the Bull
dogs Media Day on Friday and
when reached by phone that af
ternoon, deferred aU questions
regarding the football program
to assistant coach Stan Bar-
onowski. Brown said he would
not be addressing the media
this season but did not give
any specifics.
Sources close
to the program
said that Brown
came to the de
cision because
he did not like
how the media
handled a situ
ation involving
his son, Benjie
Brown, earlier this year.
“Basically, he’s just not talk
ing to the media this year,”
THS Athletic Director Woody
Huneycutt said Monday of
AUen Brown’s
decision. “I am
pretty much go
ing to respect his
wishes when it
comes to that. As
long as he wUl
make somebody
available to talk,
and he makes his
players avaUable
to talk, the only thing that wUl
change is that he’s not going
to talk. Things may change as
the year goes on, but right now,
He is very adamant about not
Brown Huneycutt
doing it and If things get bad
enough he’U just — we’U just
get another coach,’ basicaUy.”
In January, Benjie Brown,
principal at Liberty Drive El
ementary, was charged with
assault and battery for aUeg-
edly striking ThomasviUe
Middle School teacher Luke
Starrett. The charges against
Benjie Brovim were dropped on
June 30, and ThomasviUe City
Schools Superintendent Keith
Tobin said disciplinary actions
See COACH, Page 12
'1 don't see him
changing his mind
right now, but he
may. I'm going to
stick by my coach.'
— Woody Huneycutt
Thomasviile High School
Athlete! Director
Name here
Teen faces
additional
larceny
charges
BY ELIOT DUKE
Staff Writer
Charges just keep com
ing in against a Thomas-
vUle teen suspected of
breaking into dozens of
vehicles
through
out the
Chair City.
Sincelast
Wednes
day, Ty
ler Adam
Robinette,
19, of 1109
Harvest
Drive, has been charged
with an additional 14
counts of breaking and ,
entering a motor vehicle,
11 counts of misdemean
or larceny, one count of
felony larceny, one count
of injury to personal
property and one count
of larceny of a firearm,
adding to his already
lengthy list of aUega-
tions. Between Thomas
viUe Police Department
and Davidson County
Sheriff’s Office, Robi
nette has been charged
more than 70 times in the
past month.
“He has been involved
in quite a few of these
type of B&E situations
around ThomasviUe,”
Sheriff David Grice said.
“More charges just keep
getting added as detec
tives gather more infor
mation for warrants”
According to warrants
obtained from the Da
vidson County Clerk of
Courts Office, TPD has
charged Robinette with
27 counts of breaking
and entering, 24 counts
of larceny, one count of
possessing stolen prop
erty, one count of felony
conspiracy and one count
of larceny of a firearm.
DCSO has charged Robi
nette with nine counts
of breaking and enter
ing, eight counts of mis
demeanor larceny, one
count of larceny of a flre-
See CHARGES, Page 6
Studying
Abroad
Lai Bano, Akua Achiaa
and Katyuska Blanco
make use of computers
in an English as a Sec
ond Language ciass at
Davidson County Com
munity College. The
students traveled to
the U.S. from their na
tive country to attend
classes are various col
leges — one of which
is DCCC. For full story,
see FOCUS, Page 4.
ABC scores high for county schools
BYERINWILTGEN
Staff Writer
Davidson County Schools
continues its trend of improve
ment.
With Adequate Yearly Prog
ress (AYP) scores already record
ing progress, the school system’s
ABC scores, reported m the be
ginning of August, also carry a
positive overtone.
Of the system’s 32 schools, 29
- or 90.6 percent - reached ex
pected or high growth and 20 - or
62.5 percent - achieved a perfor
mance composite of 80 percent
or higher.
“We are happy with that,” said
Assistant Superintendent Dr.
Sandi Lee. “Obviously, we’d like
to have 100 percent, but what
we’re happier with is the num
ber of schools that have 80 per
cent proficiency or higher.”
The ABC system, created m
1996 and expanded in 2002-03
'Obviously, we'd like to
have 100 percent, but
what we're happier
with is the number of
schools that have 90
percent proficiency or
higher.'
— Dr, Sandi Lee
DCS Asst. Superintendent
to meet No Child Left Behind
requirements, sets growth and
performance standards for ev
ery school m the state. Scores
take in growth, proficiency and
AYP status.
Growth looks at the rate stu
dents learn over an academic
year. Each student is given a
target score based on the end-of-
grade (EOG) tests of the previous
two years. Students are expected
to perform as well as or better.
In Davidson County, aU 14 of
the middle and high schools
made expected or high growth,
with 11 making high growth, and
15 of the 18 elementary schools
made expected or high growth,
with four making high growth.
Nineteen of 32 schools sys
tem-wide met the School of
Distinction or Honor School of
Excellence designation as op
posed to 13 in 2008-09, A School
of Distinction made at least ex
pected growth with an 80-89 per
cent proficiency, while an Honor
School of Excellence made at
least expected grovrth, A'YP and
90-100 percent proficiency
Proficiency measures the per
cent of students who scored at
or above grade level. Proficiency
measures the achievement of
a school. Growth measures a
student’s change in academic
achievement.
See SCORES, Page 6
Alcohpisales
at Farmer's
Market
approved
BYERINWILTGEN
Staff Writer
Thomasville City
Council voted to amend
the rules and contract for
rental of the Farmer’s
Market facility to allow
the sale and consumption
of alcohol at its meeting
Monday
Council members also
had to amend a city or
dinance prohibiting the
sale and consumption of
alcohol on city property
except for Finch Field
and Winding Creek Golf
Course. Both votes passed
6-1, with Council Member
Raleigh York Jr. opposing
each tune.
The amendments would
allow events at the new
PACE Park amphitheater
to have a beer garden of
sorts - a location where
people could buy and sell
alcohol in a controlled
setting while stiU main
taining a family-friendly
environment. Alcohol
would be served at events
using or adjacent to the
Farmer’s Market proji-
erty, not during normal
Farmers Market operat
ing hours.
“There are places all
over that have events and
have a controlled environ
ment with responsible
salesmen there to provide
alcohol,” said Council
See SALES, Page 6
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