Youth

Tommy Acklin, a teacher at the Education Center at Cropper, was discussing unjust laws with Deon Doleman when a classmate added to the conversation, “I heard about somewhere that was taking away people’s religious rights.” Acklin used the example of Deon not being able to vote simply because he had on a gray hooded sweatshirt. Segregation topics then entered the conversation and how African-Americans couldn’t attend school or use the swimming pool with whites.

Emma Garner was reading The Storm by figuring out some of the words “by looking at the pictures,” pointing with her finger to lightning. There was finally the rain, and then she figured out “thunder” because the people had their hands covering their ears. “Every storm has to have thunder.” She also made the prediction before reaching the final page, “There will be a sun….There is!” She is in a kindergarten/first grade class taught by Michele Hiatt at Simpsonville Elementary.

Bradley named to Kansas honor roll

Ben Bradley of Shelbyville was named to the honor roll for the School of Pharmacy at the University of Campus for the fall semester.

Shelby students accepted to Sullivan

Shelby County Public Schools

Saturday – U of L Engineering Expo for talented and gifted students from Collins High and Shelby County High. Theywill be entering the Rocketry contests and the Rube Goldberg machine contest as well as taking part in various hands-on activities at U of L Speed School of Engineering.