A good Sunday story appeared in yesterday's News & Record, spotlighting the GCS Newcomers School, and the success story that is brewing over there in West Greensboro.See this short excerpt:
In each classroom at Newcomers School you’ll see large cards taped to everything. Phone. Computer. Teacher’s desk. Pencil sharpener. Anything commonly used in a classroom.
Students practice the words over and over. After brief lectures, they take turns quizzing each other on the material.
“What did the pilgrims eat for dinner?” one girl asked.
“The pilgrims eat …” another girl answered slowly, unsure of herself.
“Ate,” the teacher interjected.
“The pilgrims ate turkey for dinner,” the girl said, her eyes greeted with a smile of approval from her teacher.
Teachers say this methodical process helps students speak sooner and perform better than similar students who go directly into traditional schools.
But for many of these students, the struggle goes beyond learning a new language. Brought here by one of four refugee relocation organizations with headquarters in Guilford County, many are haunted by horrors they survived in their homelands.
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Seems to be that this school is a success story in the making.
And yet after reading the story and viewing the slideshow, it is almost horrifying that only days ago, Central Office just yanked away hundreds of thousands of dollars in supply funding to this school in the form of "Budget Cuts."
But that's how they roll downtown. This is how we treat success stories in Guilford County.
E.C. :)
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