Roane County School Growth

Have you ever planted new grass in your yard and covered it with straw? You watch day after day for the grass to grow and see no change. Then one day you look out and suddenly grass is growing everywhere. Our question is, can we use this same analogy for growth in our schools? Will we wake up one morning and find that we have overcrowding? The School Board has to seriously evaluate the

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