JCMS celebrates Education Week

JCMS sixth-grade student, Will Griffin, right, enjoys his mother, Stephanie Griffin, becoming a student again. Also pictured, right to left, are Taniqua McNeely and Jenny Taylor with her father Butch Taylor. (Photos contributed)

American Education Week was celebrated nationwide and at Jenkins County Middle School Nov. 16-22. This annual event honors teachers, education support professionals, parents, community members and substitute teachers for their commitment to providing a quality education to children.

Jenkins County Middle School celebrated each day with a poem read aloud over the public announcement system dedicated to a different group of individuals mentioned above as well as to students. Each grade also produced a quilt which represented the students’ lives, ambitions, goals, dreams and successes. The week ended on Friday with parents being invited to come to school with their children and take tests, participate in class and be students again.

The Jenkins County Middle School seventhgrade quilt created for American Education Week by Mr. John Paul Hearn’s social studies classes.