School systems can exhaust their resources until their bank accounts run dry, but, local school leaders say, until the community raises its expectations for students, consistently high success rates, across the board, are harder to reach. “One of the things I’ve found out is we will never have all the resources to do all that we need to do and as hard as we try, there will still be components that are missing,” Chairman Willie Mitchell said at the Gainesville City School Board of Education retreat on Thursday. “The majority of the time, I’ve found out, when the community support is there things shape up.”
School board: Students need support from the community
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