Visit your schools

Students in the Rowan-Salisbury Schools want to tell you about their schools.

Our community is encouraged and invited to come and see the transformations taking place in our schools. Each Wednesday during the school year (except for holidays) a school in the district opens its doors and welcomes the community to “come on in” and visit. And who better to be in charge of leading these visits than our children. Principals provide a brief overview; light refreshments are served and the rest of the visits are lead by our extraordinary students. You can be in and out in an hour. But, wow,what an hour.

Transformation: Gone are the days of straight rows, worksheets and compliant students. Today, you will see bright, colorful, collaborative spaces with students learning in teams on group projects — students talking, reading and writing about their work. We are transforming, we are changing — we are excited!

Student leaders: Student ambassadors lead tours, answer questions and showcase their schools. While each school provides the excellence to educating our children, each school takes on its own identity. Each school is unique and each school serves unique students that are eager to show you and tell you all about their schools.

Everyone is invited: So come on, senior citizens, parents, business and church communities, for-profits, non-profits, taxpayers, non-taxpayers, elected officials, retirees, college students – if you live and breathe in Rowan County, you are invited. Our public schools are your schools and we want you here.

Mark your calendar: South Rowan High School kicks off this year’s community school visits on Wednesday, Sept. 16 at 8:30 a.m.

School visit schedule: The complete School Visit schedule is found on the district’s website at: http://www.rss.k12.nc.us/school-visits. For more information, contact the public information office at 704-630-6103.

— Dr. Lynn Moody

Moody is superintendent of the Rowan-Salisbury Schools.

Unfair coverage

Livingstone won its game Saturday, yet Catawba got the color photos on the front and inside the sports section, and they lost. Not one photo of any play, coach, only an insert photo of the quarterback for Livingstone.

Fast forward to a “disturbance” on the Catawba campus and Livingstone is immediately presumed to be the culprit, say “published reports.” Who published what? To assume and accuse anyone without cause in this case, is racism at its worse. For a newspaper to print (without investigation) is worse than the Jim Crow era. I continue to see the obvious racism in reporting and the letters to the editor in the Post.

Wake up, people, smell the coffee.

Finially, Scott Teamer, pay close attention or resign.

— Kathryn Wiggins

Salisbury

Editor’s note: The Livingstone game was in Columbia, S.C. Catawba was playing at home in Salisbury.