Superintendent Chris Hon visited with the youth panel selected last month to participate in the 30th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebration at Wheatley School.

 

The students-from Junior and Senior High-provided "a look into the future," while keynote speaker Rev. Andrew Jefferson of Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church shared some history on Dr. King. The panel discussion was moderated by Kathern Harris, a retired educator.

 

Above: (From left) Shelby Jefferson, Adam Jefferson, Justine Miller, Kendrick Brown, Mr. Hon, Khelie Spence, Maliah Matthews and Alana McDonald.

On Friday, Feb. 12, Cora Thompson wrote on the Poplar Bluff Schools Facebook page:

 

"My husband and I were eating at Subway, Winona, around noon today when a Poplar Bluff school bus arrived. The approximately 20 students had been to Twin Pines Conservation Center this morning. We were so impressed with these kids. There was no loud conversation, no roughhousing, no 'me first' attitudes displayed in the long line or in the booths. In fact, they offered to let a state highway patrolman and his (mother) break into the line ahead of them, then made the same offer to an older couple later, postponing their own meals. Someone, at school or at home or both, has done one fine job of rearing these kids. Congratulations!"

 

Thanks for the incredible affirmation, Mrs. Thompson! That was instructor Kathryn Clark's conservation class participating in a forestry workshop (see above).