Article Category: School

Tucker Turns Out to Roll Up Its Sleeves Eighteen-year-old Victoria Smash is at a stage in life where her social calendar should be fairly full. Between friends and prom and all the other demands of senior year, she should be in a constant state of busyness. But, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Tucker High…

On April 20, the Tucker Cluster Council (TCC) held its final meeting of the school year. During that meeting, several members of the DeKalb County School District leadership team provided updates to the group on how things are going in the District on a number of fronts.  Allyson GevertzSchool Board Member The plan is to…

Coaching changes are pretty rare when you’re talking about the Tucker High School football team. So, when head coach Bryan Lamar left earlier this year to pursue a new opportunity, a lot of people were interested to see who would be selected as his successor. For a program that has multiple state championships and is…

Students, Parents, Teachers Bracing for a Return to Face-to-Face Learning For months, the issue of reopening schools was very much a partisan one. As cases of coronavirus have roller coastered up, then down, then to a holiday surge, and now back down again, the tide has started to turn in the debate over face-to-face learning.…

Young Women’s Efforts Assisting People at Home and Abroad Most high schoolers are doing well to find ways to make a difference in their community. But can you imagine a young teenager making an actual impact on a global scale? That’s what’s happening at Tucker High School, where a group of young ladies in 2019…

School Set to Open to Students for 2021-’22 Academic Year With the scientific community coalescing around the notion that in-person learning is, in fact, the best and safest option for children, students across the DeKalb County School District are headed back to class later this month. It’s a relief to many parents, who had been…

DeKalb Schools Taking Precautions to Ensure Safe Sports Seasons Tens of thousands of students and parents across the DeKalb County School District have nearly completed their fall semester of virtual learning. That means hundreds of Zoom calls, virtual projects, tech help and messages to teachers. Needless to say, it’s been a stressful time for all…

Virtual Learning Academies Popping Up to Give Working Parents a Choice Pick up and drop off are a little bit busier these days at Rehoboth Baptist Church. The church, which opened a very popular preschool in 2018, recently made the decision to start a new venture this school year: a virtual learning academy. “It started…

Idlewood Teacher Using Photography to Enhance Global Perspective Photographer Steve McCurry traverses the globe documenting people from all walks of life. His work, captured in peacetime and wartime, has appeared on magazine covers and garnered multiple awards for its stark honesty and daring transparency. That photography is resonating especially within the halls of Tucker’s Idlewood Elementary School.…

Smoke Rise Prep Executing Hybrid Ed Strategy During COVID Outbreak Sometimes being small can have its advantages. Just ask the administration of Smoke Rise Prep, a private K-8 school on Hugh Howell Road here in Tucker. On August 19, thanks to its small class sizes and modest student enrollment, the school was able to open…

This summer, I interned for the City of Tucker working directly for Assistant City Manager John McHenry and assisting other departments. This opportunity was especially important to me because I live and grew up in this area and have so many good memories associated with it. Over the past few weeks, I have gotten to…

New DeKalb School Superintendent Brings Big Ideas from the Big Apple  The search for a new superintendent of DeKalb County schools was a longer process than the Board of Education might have expected. But when the dust cleared, there was one woman standing from that nationwide search. Now, the Board is banking on veteran educator…