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EXCELLENCE WITHIN THE DISTRICT — The Montgomery County School System celebrat
ed excellence within the district at its annual Teacher of the Year Breakfast on No
vember 1. This year, the celebration included the inaugural Support Person of fhe Year
Awards for each building of the District. L to R: Patricia Osting, Kaneesha Love, Phyllis
Morris, Olga Kirolos, Kerri Anderson, and Abril Mills.
Kerri Anderson Named MoCo
Schools Teacher of the Year
By Makaylee Randolph
Staff Writer
mrandolphadvance@gmail.com
Montgomery County
High School math teacher
Kerri Anderson was named
the Montgomery County
Schools District Teacher
of the Year at the annual
award breakfast on Tues
day November 1.
Anderson has worked
at the school since her col
lege graduation, and also
serves as the high school
Beta Club Sponsor and
Girls Soccer Coach.
“I have been able to
watch Ms. Anderson trans
form from being a teacher
just out of school to the
teacher she is now, and
every year, she grows and
gets better,” Montgomery
County High School Prin
cipal Scott Barrow com
mented. “One thing that
stands out about Ms. An
derson is her relationship
with students. Every morn
ing, there are usually 15-20
kids in her classroom, just
hanging out and visiting.
They all want to be around
her.”
Anderson will now go
on to compete for the state
Teacher of the Year title,
which would allow her to
take the year off and travel
across the state to discuss
education with teachers
and other stakeholders.
Other TOTY
MCES
Montgomery Coun
ty Elementary School
(MCES) Teacher of the
Year was awarded to Re
sponse to Intervention
(RTI) Teacher Kaneesha
Love. “Mrs. Love, if there
was one word to describe
you, to me, it would be
‘personal,’” MCES Princi
pal Eric Burns remarked.
“You make all of your stu
dents personal; regardless
if they are the lowest level
learners or the highest level
learners, they become per
sonal to you.”
He added, “You want
your students to succeed;
you want your students to
grow. There is no student
that steps foot in your class
room that you do not put
your all into helping.”
MCMS
Montgomery County
Middle School (MCMS)
8th Grade Math Teacher
Abril Mills accepted the
Teacher of the Year Award
for the middle school.
Mills has been teaching at
MCMS for many years, and
also serves as the middle
school Beta Club sponsor.
“The continuous growth
each and every year in Mrs.
Mills is incredible,” said Dr,
Barrow, who is also MCMS
principal. “She has actually
grown so much that she has
added on additional roles
as the Junior Beta Club
sponsor and the sponsor
for our entire 8th grade. We
are so grateful for all she
does.”
SPOTY
This year was the
school’s inaugural year for
the issuance of the Support
Person of the Year (SPO
TY) award, which cele
brates a classified employee
from each school building.
MCES
The MCES SPOTY
Award was issued to Para-
professional Olga Kiro
los. “If there is one thing
that definitely stands out
about this lady, it is that
she is definitely an encour-
ager,” MCES Principal Eric
Bums shared. “One of the
first things that Mrs. Olga
came up to me and said
when I stepped up as prin
cipal was that she was pray
ing for me. She cares about
her kids; I hear often about
what is going on in her life.
More so, she cares about
the kids that are not her
biological kids.”
He continued, “Those
students are her students,
they are her children. She
has impacted so many of
our current and past stu
dents, and she continues
to let her love and support
overflow everywhere she
goes.”
MCMS/MCHS
The SPOTY Award for
the Montgomery County
Middle/High School was
presented to Paraprofes-
sional Phyllis Morris,
who floats throughout the
building to perform any
task necessary. “She has
the chance to work with all
different grade levels and
make impacts on numer
ous students,” Dr. Barrow
commented. “She works
a lot one-on-one with stu
dents to make those im
pacts one conversation at a
time, one student at a time,
to build those relationships
with students.”
Board Office
The Montgomery
County Board Office SPO
TY Award was presented
to Data Collections Man
ager Patricia Osting. “She is
so good about making you
feel like the only person in
the room when you need
her help,” Assistant Su
perintendent Dr. Beverly
Faircloth commented. “She
stops what she is doing and
focuses all of her energy on
assisting you with whatever
you need.”
HAPPY
BIRTHDAY
To one of our
youngest reader!
Italy
Thornton
- From the staff at The Advance
RETIRING THE BADGE — Friends, family, and coworkers of the late Stacy Fowler gath
ered as her badge was formally retired in a ceremony at Corner Market Antiques
and Gifts in Mount Vernon on October 27. L to R: Captain Elizabeth Scott, Opal Dean
Fowler, Durward Fowler, Warden Tamela Brown.
Late Corrections
Officer’s Badge Retired
By Makaylee Randolph
Staff Writer
mrandolphadvance@gmail.com
Friends, family, and
coworkers of the late Sta
cy Fowler gathered at the
Corner Market Antiques
and Gifts in Mount Vernon
for the retirement ceremo
ny of Fowler’s badge on
October 27.
As attendees gathered
at the shop, owned by
Fowler’s brother, stories
filled the room of memo
ries with the officer. “The
corrections officers you
see here are all officers who
worked shifts with Stacy,”
Captain Elizabeth Scott
told the Fowler family. “We
promised you at the funer
al that we would always be
here and would always be a
family, so here we are.”
“On behalf of Mont
gomery State Prison, we
have retired Stacy’s badge,
and want to give you this,”
Warden Tamela Brown told
Fowler’s parents, handing
them a framed memorabil
ia of Fowler’s badge. “We
sure do miss her.”
Fowler’s parents com
mented on the emotional
occasion. “We appreciate
all of you, and we love this
so much,” her mother Opal
Dean Fowler said.
The corrections of
ficer was killed in a tragic
car accident this past May.
Since her death, the prison
employees say she has been
thoroughly missed by all,
including inmates.
Lowry
continued from page 7A
cratic Congress again that
the first bill he’d pursue is
... a radical pro-abortion
law.
In short, democracy is
not on the ballot, and not
even Democrats are acting
like it is. That doesn’t
mean that the “Stop the
Steal” candidates don’t
present potential prob
lems, or that election de
nial as such isn’t corrosive.
But Democrats are fooling
themselves if they think
they’d accept a clear
Trump victory in 2024 as
legitimate any more than
they did in 2016.
If there were a literal
referendum on democ
racy, it’d pass handily. As it
is, though, no one is going
to be convinced to vote
for down-the-line Biden-
supporting progressives,
with all their fevered ob
sessions, because hypo
critical, self-interested
partisans say it’s what we
owe to our republic.
Rich Lowry is editor of the
National Review.
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