Catherine Truitt, North Carolina’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, announced the 48 members of a new Parent Advisory Committee on Tuesday, June 14.
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Conover homeschooling mom, Jessica Frierson, remembers last July 4 weekend well. That was when two of her daughters started to complain their throats hurt. Frierson thought it was just the dry air.
“One by one, the other children started getting it,” she says. It turned out to be COVID-19. “My 4-year-old and my 8-year-old were pitiful, they would lie on the floor and cry, just sob
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Soon, all six children got the virus. Then her husband was admitted to the hospital with double pneumonia after he tested positive. Frierson took care of everyone … until one day last August.
Frierson says she felt like she’d been hit by a train. “It was the flu times 10.” She had difficulty breathing. She felt like there was a heavy weight on her chest; she thought she might die.