Dalton High student José Beltran, 16, puts up a shot from the “college graduate” line during a basketball exercise during “Reality Check” at the school Thursday. Students were grouped into college graduate, high school graduate and high school dropout categories and allowed to shoot from closer distances to the hoop depending on their levels of education with the baskets representing quality, high-paying jobs. Reality Check allows Dalton High freshmen to learn about real costs of living and experience what it’s like to pay bills and make financial decisions.
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(Misty Watson) For the past five years, Whitfield County middle schools, including Eastbrook and Westside, left, have competed in a league that doesn’t include Dalton. North Georgia Middle School Athletic League president Stan Stewart, Westside’s principal, believes it has resulted in a more even playing field for the league, which also includes Murray County’s Bagley and Gladden. But Dalton Middle officials say the situation has created lots of challenges for their school’s athletic teams, which must travel farther for away games, resulting in logistical, financial and academic difficulties. Both sides met last fall to discuss possible changes to the league.
On fall Friday nights, some of the area’s most anticipated high school football matchups occur when Dalton High takes on its rivals from another school system, Whitfield County’s Northwest and Southeast.
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But Dalton Middle athletes haven’t had the same chance to compete against their counterparts from Whitfield County since 2007, when a split left the Cougars and Lady Cougars — and for a time, Murray County’s Bagley and Gladden — out of the North Georgia Middle School Athletic League. - Georgia School Boards Association elects new officers
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