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Twelve-year-old Trey Perkins may be one of George County's newest political activists.
Since February, the sixth-grader at George County Middle School has been on a mission to show school district officials that many students and taxpayers are against a mandatory school-uniform policy put in place a few years ago.
He's hung up petitions all over the county, in stores and in restaurants, and so far he's collected 479 signatures from residents and students in support of abolishing the school-uniform requirement.
I wish you luck Trey and will be following your story with great interest. You can read the rest of the article in The Sun Herald.
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Mississippi School Creates Political Activist
Twelve-year-old Trey Perkins may be one of George County's newest political activists.
Since February, the sixth-grader at George County Middle School has been on a mission to show school district officials that many students and taxpayers are against a mandatory school-uniform policy put in place a few years ago.
He's hung up petitions all over the county, in stores and in restaurants, and so far he's collected 479 signatures from residents and students in support of abolishing the school-uniform requirement.
I wish you luck Trey and will be following your story with great interest. You can read the rest of the article in The Sun Herald.
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Home-Schooled Students Rise in Supply and Demand Do students need textbooks? The ever-growing number of tools and the increasing cost of textbooks are the reasons some high schools in South Mississippi have only one set of books in the classroom, and...
- Mandatory School Uniforms Abandoned
Back-to-school means new pencils and notebooks. For parents in the west Valley’s Dysart Unified School District, it also means shopping for school clothes that adhere to the district’s uniform dress code. Or it did until Wednesday. In a letter to...
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Language intended to clarify a state law designed to save low-income parents money has instead caused widespread confusion among school districts about who pays for school uniforms. Education officials are hoping to fix it - fast. If they don't,...
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Law and order, in the form of two new security resource officers, is coming to George County schools this year. In addition to patrolling the school campuses, maintaining order when fights between students break out and teaching classes on safety and...
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According to school officials in Flint while there's some confusion over whether the policy is mandatory, school officials said it's optional because students can't be forced to dress a certain way to get a public education. I wish someone...