What are local educators doing to keep students in school?
Recently elected at-large Dougherty County School Board member Anita Williams-Brown has been an educator for over thirty years and has observed the detrimental effects that students dropping out of high school create.
Dr. Brown says that in a lot of cases high school dropouts “end up stealing and robbing and doing some other things to make money and eventually end up in prison.” Cynthia Levatte, a graduation coach at Dougherty High School, says that some students are overwhelmed by the pressure of their home life and view attending school as a burden. Nevertheless Levatte says enormous progress has been made in the last two years in helping juniors pass the science and math portions of the Georgia High School Graduation Test.
Levatte says the implementation of “a third period for intervention and remediation is preparing students for the GHSGT” that has led to 21 percent increase in students passing all four core tests.
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