Kudos to the PSRC School Board and Superintendent Hunt for listening to the parents, teachers, students and principals and re-storing the EOC schedule to normal.
In case you missed it, a poorly planned, last minute change to the schedule was implemented at the last board meeting in order to accommodate students interested in watching the inauguration.
The schedule change which would have moved testing up several days would have cost students and teachers valuable time to review.
I was one of the many parents who were upset by the board’s initial decision to move the first day of testing back. Via e-mail, texts and phone calls our board members and the superintendent listened to our concerns and took action.
A special thanks to chairman Robert Deese who accepted my phone call and listened to my comments and concerns. He was very understanding of the issue and assured me that the board and the central office would re-visit the schedule change.
I was very pleased to hear that by the afternoon our children had word that the schedule had been restored.
Our school board has pledged to put students first and this time they very much did. They put politics aside, listened, re-evaluated and made a decision that was right for the students.
Kathy Brediger Hansen
Lumberton
You are to be commended for your concerns for the students of the Public Schools of Robeson County. If your child wasn't prepared on Friday, I gurantee you that they wouldn't have been ready by Tuesday. An entire semester has been taught for our children to pass this test and they should have been prepared to take it. That's neither here nor there since the snow allowed children (hopefully yours too)to watch the Inauguration of America's first African American President. In the future, I am sure that is one question that the EOC will ask and all students will get it right. God Bless You and God Bless The United States of America.