The Carolina Journal: Like many other New Hanover County citizens, I was blindsided when New Hanover County Schools Superintendent Dr. Charles Foust and his administrative staff made a sudden announcement immediately after last Thanksgiving that the Career Readiness Academy at Mosley is being closed and the students enrolled there will be forced to transfer to other schools throughout the county.
At a joint meeting between the New Hanover County Commission and the NHC Board of Education, Dr. Foust acknowledged, after I asked him, that one of the possibilities following Mosley's closure would be to replace it with a "Newcomers school." I want to make it very clear, as a New Hanover County commissioner, that I want no part of either proposal.
Mosley is a one-of-a-kind public school in New Hanover County that offers custom-tailored education to local students who require special learning.
Newcomers schools may be called schools, but they are more akin to migrant resettlement and assimilation facilities.
New Hanover County Schools should prioritize one thing above all: the students who live in New Hanover County and attend our schools.
The undeniable truth is that a newcomers school is outside the purview of our education system and would rapidly become a magnet to migrant families from outside of the county.
The students of James Madison High School in Brooklyn were forced to learn from home today after a last-minute decision to allow the migrants - from the southern border - to sleep inside the school because of harsh weather conditions outside.
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