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Aidan Pollard Dec 15, 2020 Old Rochester Regional High School students were able to convince the ORR School Committee to let their dual enrollment classes count toward grade point averages at a Dec. 9 meeting.  Dual enrollment classes count toward a student’s transcript, but are take at community colleges rather than with teachers from ORR. Before the motion passed, the courses counted neither toward students’ GPAs nor class rank. Students, supported by Principal Michael Devoll, said that wasn’t fair when dual enrollment can be just as rigorous as an Advanced Placement cour...

Old Rochester Regional School District officials addressed a racist instagram account featuring the district’s bulldog mascot. Old Rochester Regional School District administration addressed racist posts from the now-defunct Instagram account @republicanatorr at a Dec. 9 ORR School Committee meeting.  Writing in the posts from the account included racist overtones and allusions to slavery, according to a press release from Superintendent Michael Nelson.  One post from the account that was shared to the Facebook group “Tri-Town Against Racism” featured the ORR Bulldog mascot wearing a...