New Hanover County Schools votes to move middle and high schools to Plan A
NHC School Board voted to return middle and high schoolers to full-time instruction By WECT Staff | March 16, 2021 at 7:29 PM EDT - Updated March 16 at 11:54 PM
NEW HANOVER COUNTY, N.C. (WECT) - The New Hanover County School Board voted 5-2 to allow in-person instruction five days a week for grades 6-12 starting April 12th at an meeting Tuesday.
Judy Justice and Stephanie Walker cast the dissenting votes.
All students can continue to choose full-time remote learning, an AA/BB schedule, or return to daily in-person classes.
More than 40 years ago, when I helped manage the US libraries in Johannesburg and Soweto, we tried hard to have a good, albeit limited, mix of important US works of fiction, volumes on current, even contentious, non-fiction topics, crucial reference works, and a wide variety of major US periodicals. All of this, of course, was decades before the internet, and printed material was king. But one thing we also subscribed to was a uniquely South African periodical, the lugubrious title of which was usually shortened to
Jacobsen’s Index.
This publication listed everything the censors of the old apartheid regime believed to be anathema to its puritanical, strict, racially segregated society. In it one would find every book, magazine, T-shirt, car bumper sticker, record album, film, poster, and anything else deemed a violation of the censors’ overzealous attention. To possess such materials, once listed, became an actionable offence.
New research is suggesting that even if there’s high spread of the coronavirus in the community, that doesn’t translate into increased cases in schools.
NHCS expands sexual assault training for students and teachers, hires investigator
NHCS expands sexual assault training for students and teachers, hires investigator By Ann McAdams | January 21, 2021 at 3:03 PM EST - Updated January 21 at 4:25 PM
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - New Hanover County Schools (NHCS) has come a long way in its efforts to effectively deal with sexual assault, and itâs letting the public know about it.
NHCS formed a Title IX committee in the Spring of 2019, in the wake of public outcry over the sexual assault of students by their teachers that spanned over the course of decades. Parents and victims complained of systemic issues that allowed the abuse to continue for years after they say it could have and should have been stopped.