{"id":362,"date":"2016-08-29T17:23:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T21:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/sportsenterprise\/?p=362"},"modified":"2016-08-29T17:38:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T21:38:06","slug":"easley-high-school-archived-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/sportsenterprise\/easley-high-school-archived-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Easley High School archived story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finding archived stories about my high school in Easley, South Carolina, was a bit difficult. There’s plenty of news from recent years, but once I searched for news from 2009 or prior, the selection was scarce. I did find this story<\/a> about an Easley High School teacher who was charged with four counts of soliciting minors. Yes, it’s a very gloomy story. But it interested me because I had no clue. I was about to enter middle school\u00a0at the time this story was written, so it seems reasonable to think that I would have heard about this, but I don’t remember anything. I like looking back and thinking about how I consumed news at different ages. I feel like around this time, I definitely wasn’t consuming online news regularly. However, my mom also said she doesn’t remember this, so it might have been extremely under-covered.<\/p>\n

The story was published on GoUpstate.com in July of 2007. It reported that Curtis Ballard, who was a science teacher at Easley High School, was charged with soliciting sex through the Internet. He was caught by deputies posing as 13-year-old girls. He had been teaching at the school for over 20 years and taught biology, anatomy and physiology.\u00a0I also noticed the lack of coverage on this incident from other local news publications, which surprised me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finding archived stories about my high school in Easley, South Carolina, was a bit difficult. There’s plenty of news from recent years, but once I searched for news from 2009 or prior, the selection was scarce. I did find this story about an Easley High School teacher who was charged with four counts of soliciting … Continue reading Easley High School archived story<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,22],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coursework","category-module-2","tag-schooldays"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7MY21-5Q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":396,"url":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/sportsenterprise\/methods-for-gathering-information\/","url_meta":{"origin":362,"position":0},"title":"Methods for gathering information","author":"ebg308","date":"August 29, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I keep track of my notes and things I need for a story usually on a single Google doc. 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