If you visit the Thompsons house on Christmas Day, you will find a household packed with kids. Two of them are visitors exchange students from Italy and Germany studying this year at Nash Central High School.
According to authorities with Nash County Public Schools, the school s new metal detection systems flagged an object that looked like a gun just before 7 a.m. Wednesday. The systems were installed over the summer at various schools in the county.
School shutdowns during COVID-19 are partly to blame for a bus driver shortage that has some school districts requiring teacher assistants, janitors, and other school personnel to drive school buses.