By Erinn Williams
Columnist
4 hrs ago
As a seventh grade student I walked into the band room at Williamsburg City School with my mind made up. I intended to join the marching âjacketâ band like my dad had in the late 70s. Dad had played the trumpet, my uncle Greg had played the drums, and my aunt Monica had played the clarinet and flute along with being a member of the color guard. My mother was on the rifle team while at Whitley County High School.
I had no idea how to play a woodwind let alone a brass instrument but I knew I wanted my picture framed in the hallway like all the rest. There was something special about those framed still shots of the band.
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The Cobb County School District shifted to remote learning the week of Jan. 18 due to COVID-19 conditions in the county. Two Cobb educators passed away from the illness the same week, which led some parents and teachers to urge district officials to stick with remote learning for the foreseeable future. However, the district will resume in-person classes the week of Jan. 25. Students who chose remote learning this semester will still be able to learn from home.
A group of Cobb parents and teachers protested the plan ahead of a school board meeting last Thursday. Several spoke at the meeting in hopes of influencing the board and Superintendent Chris Ragsdale.
Two teachers from the same Georgia school district die from COVID-19 within hours of each other three weeks after a beloved art educator from the area passed on Christmas Day
Both Dana Johnson and Cynthia Lindsey, educators at Cobb County Schools in the metro Atlanta area, died on Thursday
Johnson, a teacher at Kemp Elementary School, had pre-existing conditions
Lindsey was a paraprofessional at Sedalia Park Elementary
Patrick Key, a third educator from the county, died on Christmas Day from COVID-19 complications
Key was a beloved art teacher at Hendricks Elementary School in Powder Springs
Of the 760,000 people in the county, some 58,350 have tested positive with the virus and 688 people have died