Page 3 - Jayenne Elementary News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

FAIRMONT — Fourteen students and one staff member at Jayenne Elementary have been honored by school officials for being ‘Pawsitive.’ At the school, whose mascot is the Jaguar, the paws

Photo by Sarah Marino FAIRMONT — A few years ago, Sonya Davis crocheted roses for the staff of Jayenne Elementary where she works as night custodian. When she set out to hand out the roses, a first grade students asked if she could give him one for his mother. “I said, ‘if I have enough,’ and I didn’t. That broke my heart, so as soon as I went home, I told my husband ‘I’ve got to make every kid in this school a rose,’” Davis said. She said some kids cannot afford to get their mothers anything for Mother’s Day or have anyone else who can take t...

RACHEL — A Jayenne Elementary School teacher told members of the Marion County Board of Education Monday that she was told to either sign her new contract or lose her job. “The board has decided to cut the second grade position that I currently hold,” said Stacy Patterson, second-grade teacher at Jayenne Elementary School. After Patterson and other concerned attendees spoke, the meeting fell into disorder and the board requested Patterson and two representatives from teachers’ unions join the board in an executive session behind closed doors. Approximately 40 people attend...

2 hrs ago The Marion County Board of Education heard pleas Monday night from teachers who asked their positions not be transferred to other departments. TWV FILE PHOTO RACHEL — A Jayenne Elementary School teacher told members of the Marion County Board of Education Monday that she was told to either sign the new contract or lose her job. "The board has decided to cut the second grade position that I currently hold," said Stacy Patterson, second-grade teacher at Jayenne Elementary School. After Patterson and other concerned attendees spoke, the meetin...