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Monday night, members from Decatur County Board of Education held an annual Family and Parent Engagement Event with Attapulgus residents at the Attapulgus community center. Art King, Attapulgus’ mayor, attended the event.  

DCBOE shared information to parents about the great things in Decatur County and the school system. They also informed parents about what they can do to get involved with their kids’ education. 

Christopher Bryant, the Bainbridge High School principal, spoke with parents about the new high school theater. David Kirkland, the Bainbridge Middle School Principal, talked about students moving to the new middle school, next to the high school, on Bearcat Boulevard at the beginning of the year. Michael Austin, Assistant Principal, presented information that Hutto Elementary School will have access to Media Hub. West Bainbridge also spoke about their work with students.

 Afterwards, there was a Q&A where parents engaged with the school system leaders; one parent raised concerns about their child not eating breakfast. Nita Floyd, Director of School Nutrition, explained that they cannot make a child take breakfast, but they can strongly encourage it. We try to encourage and tell parents please, because breakfast is one of the most important meals of the day. So, we want our kids to eat anyways as available to them.

After the event, parents were given educational material to help them get a head start of what’s to come for 2024-2025. They were given Parent Engagement calendars, Lead Poisoning Awareness flyers, Apex Counseling Pamphlets, and more informative material from different schools. Crycythnia Gardner states the material was to help keep parents informed because, “We want parents to remember that it takes all of us working together. Parents have to work, so they are entrusting us to take care of their children, and the same thing, when we give them a quality of education, because our curriculum department and district are working hard.”