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Parents, kids flock to school open houses
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Mattie Lively Elementary School principal Todd Williford, right, catches up with fifth grader Kyle Hendry, 10, and grandparents Marcia and Chris Parkerson during Tuesday's open house. While Hendry is a returning Mattie Lively student, Williford was his principal when previously a student at Sallie Zetterower.
Thousands of Bulloch County children were back in school Tuesday, but not yet for classes. With the start of the 2013-14 school year still two days away, parents and students throughout the district flocked to open house events, which allow teachers and administrators a chance to meet with parents and inform them on what to expect during the upcoming academic year. Open houses also give parents the chance to see the classrooms in which their children will spend the better part of the next nine months.
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Bulloch County teens elected as state and region leaders
Two local high school students to represent Georgia FCCLA in leadership roles
Eden Chavers
Eden Chavers

Two Bulloch County students were elected recently to serve as state and region officers for the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America’s (FCCLA) Georgia chapter. 

Kamryn Williams and Eden Chavers are members of their respective high schools' FCCLA chapters, a national career technical student organization that now boasts 250,000 members nationwide and more than 24,000 members in Georgia. 

Kamryn Williams
Kamryn Williams

Williams is a tenth-grader at Southeast Bulloch High. She has been elected to serve as a state officer, vice president of Membership, for Georgia FCCLA.

Chavers, a twelfth-grader at Statesboro High, will serve as a Region 9 officer for Georgia FCCLA.

Both are students in Bulloch County Schools’ Early Childhood Education career pathway. FCCLA is a student technical organization that is connected to the pathway and provides leadership, networking, skills building opportunities and competitions.

FCCLA is one of six student technical organizations within the school district’s Career Technical & Agricultural Education program. Their faculty advisors are Charity Masters at SEB and Rosanna Ward, Jackie Merrill and Callie Lauder of Statesboro High.

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