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Schools bursting at the seams.
Byline: Beverly A. Carroll
Aug. 18--At Rhea Central Elementary School, lunch lasts three hours. In Athens City Schools, students attend classes in the former faculty lounge, and at Meigs North Elementary School, all four sixth-grade classes are full and one exceeds the state maximum of 20 students.
All three of the Southeast Tennessee schools are bursting at the seams and struggling with money problems. All three are in line to receive some of the estimated 600-plus children of laborers coming to finish Unit 2 reactor at Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, according to a TVA study. Increasing demand for electricity in the Tennessee Valley has spurred TVA directors to finish the reactor in Rhea County.
"We were in pretty good shape for space until we added two new pre-k programs this year," Meigs County Schools Director Don Roberts…
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