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Residents of Lookout Valley irked by elementary principal move

photo Rick Smith, Hamilton County schools superintendent, talks in this file photo.
photo Lookout Valley Elementary School principal Regina Brock, left, and Lookout Valley Middle/High School principal Rick Rushworth showcase the new mural in honor of the school mascot, the yellow jacket.

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The Lookout Valley Neighborhood Association is calling a meeting with school officials at 7 p.m. Thursday at the John A. Patten Recreation Center, 3202 Kelly’s Ferry Road, to try and keep Regina Brock as the principal of Lookout Valley Elementary School.

Jerry Walls says Lookout Valley Elementary regularly draws short straws from the school system, and he and other residents are tired of it.

Walls is president of the Lookout Valley Neighborhood Association, and the group plans to meet with Hamilton County Schools officials at 7 p.m. Thursday to try and keep Regina Brock at the elementary school’s helm.

Schools Superintendent Rick Smith announced in May that Brock was being moved to Thrasher Elementary on Signal Mountain. She was one of a dozen Hamilton County principals receiving new assignments.

Alison Taylor, assistant principal at Nolan Elementary, is scheduled to take over for Brock.