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Hop on the bus, Gus, for the Winter Bus Tour of county schools
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Above, Vince Cardoso’s Spanish II class at Forsyth Central High School sang “Cielito
Lindo,” a traditional Spanish song that means “beautiful sky,” for the visitors. Below,
the new Sharon Elementary media center houses four books from the old Sharon
School, whose aged brick structure can still be seen across Old Atlanta Road from
the new school.
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By Nicole Green
Staff Writer
Members of the communi
ty rode a mile in someone
else’s seat on the Yellow”
as they participated in the
Winter Bus Tour of Forsyth
County Schools last week.
Two school buses were
filled with 53 Local School
Council members, educators,
school board members and
parents who toured Sharon
Elementary in south Forsyth,
the newest school in the coun
ty. and Forsyth Central High
School in Cumming, the old
est high school in the county.
“It’s great to get out and
see the schools,” said Brain
Conroy with Clark Patterson
Associates, which performs
architectural work for the
school system.
Sharon Elementary School
Principal Janet Reid literally
opened all her doors to visi
tors. The tour wound through
the castle-like building, the
first two-story school in
Forsyth County, and inspected
the usually “forbidden” areas
like the principal’s office and
the teacher break rooms. They
also visited classrooms on the
kindergarten hall.
Reid said she has a place to
go when the stress of the job
begins to bother her.
“I have two sanctuaries
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when I say 33 years [of teach
ing] is enough. One is my
office and one is this hall. I
come and play with the kids,”
Reid said.
At Forsyth Central High
School, principal Kenny Foxx
introduced visitors to the wide
variety of specialized classes
the high school offers.
They watched sophomores
and juniors in William
Schuyler’s advanced place
ment biology class isolate
DNA from their own cheek
cells as a lab experiment for
their genetics studies. The for
mer head of pulmonary
research at Emory University,
Schuyler pushes his students
on their quest for knowledge.
“I don’t coddle them,”
Schuyler said. “I tell them if
you’re used to getting an easy
A, you won’t get that here.”
Students in Terry Ellis’
anatomy class were dissecting
cats as visitors discovered
when they were knocked back
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a few steps by the stench of
formaldehyde. Ellis com
plained that the smell of the
lab clings to her clothes after
she leaves the classroom, “But
I love it,” she said, clearly
enthusiastic about her subject.
The students also appeared to
be totally at ease with the
scalpel.
The tour entered Heather
Gordy’s American government
class of seniors in the middle
of a political discussion.
Students were studying politi
cal parties in America and dis
covering how their own beliefs
aligned with the different
groups.
The Forsyth County
Schools annual bus tour began
10 years ago after
Superintendent Paula Gault
attended a state bus tour. Each
year since, the school system
has conducted at least one bus
tour each year. The next tour
will be in the spring, Gault
said.
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FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS —Wednesday, December 17,2003 I
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Above, the fifth
and sixth-grade
choirs, the Sharon
Singers, performed
a medieval carol, a
ragtime carol and
“We Wish You a
Merry Christmas”
for their visitors.
“We’re very proud
of the stage area,”
Sharon Elementary
principal Janet Reid
said. The stage was
built in the cafeteria
with steps that act
as risers. Left,
Forsyth Central
Principal Kenny
Foxx feigns nerv
ousness as Jessica
Lokay, 17, cuts his
hair. Foxx knows he
is in good hands,
as Lokay is a third
year cosmetology
student at Forsyth
Central.