May 18, 2001
Mr. Robert Clouatre
Ascension Parish School Board
38210 Highway 3089
Donaldsonville, La 70346-8586
Dear Sir:
I am again forced to bring to your attention the flagrant disregard for our student’s safety and well being at the Dutchtown Middle and Elementary schools.
I was appalled to see pedestrian traffic, students, on the Dutchtown Middle School Road. A road barely wide enough for two vehicles to pass safely has students walking on it to and from school. Students are being forced to stand in the drainage ditches when vehicles pass them by.
I was also dismayed to see that there is sometimes the absence of a school employee to monitor the discharge of middle school students from their vehicles in the morning, this morning being one such instance.
I would think after these many months, no years, of portraying you and your school board as a bunch of bungling bumpkins you would have come to the realization that there are safety issues that in some instances could cause serious injury or even death to our students. Yet you still persist on ignoring these issues.
I can only hope that when the time comes again to pick a superintendent that the powers that be see fit to remove you in favor of someone more attuned to student safety along with student excellence.
Chuck Le Mieux
Cc/Fax to:
Ms. Elizabeth Stafford Dutchtown Primary Principle
Ms. Cathy Meredith Dutchtown Middle Principle
Cc/email to:
Mr. Cecil Picard Louisiana Board of Education
Mr. George Valentine Ascension Parish School Board Member
Mr. Harold Marchand Ascension Parish President
Ms. Patricia Cook Ascension Parish Executive Secretary
Mr. R. Anderson Ascension Parish CAO
Mr. Alvin Thomas Ascension Parish Council District 1
Mr. Adrian Thompson Ascension Parish Council District 3
Mr. Dudley Brown Ascension Parish Council District 4
Mr. Donnell Nickens Ascension
Parish Council District 5
Mr. Shafter Kling Ascension Parish Council District 8
Mr. Jerry Savoy Ascension Parish Council District 9
Mr. Martin McConnell Ascension Parish Council District 10
Mr. Darnell Martinez Ascension Parish Council District 11
Ms. Jennifer Sheffield Channel 2 Education Reporter
Channel Two News Room
Mr. John MacMillan The Advocate’s River Parish Office
Mr. Steven Ward The Advocate’s River Parish Office
Mr. David Young The Gonzales Weekly
Mr. David Young The Community Mirror
Mr. David Young Ascension Parish TV
The Ascension Citizen
A copy of this letter has been published to the web site Inside Ascension Parish at http://www.inascension.com
