ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR 5-7TH GRADE GIRLS

SAVE THE DATE!

Southern Partners Fund  (SPF)

REGIONAL GRANTEE GATHERING - Atlanta, GA

DATES: 

Sept. 15th-17th, 2022

VOTING RIGHTS IN THE RURAL SOUTH: LEVERAGING RESOURCES FOR CHANGE

For more information, please visit website: 

www.southernpartnersfund.org

Phone: (404) 541-9091

2022-2023:   BACK TO SCHOOL REGISTRATION

Williams-Sullivan Middle School

14494 Hwy 51

Durant, MS 39063

DATE:  July 20th-27th

TIME:  8:00am - 4:00pm 

For more information please contact: 

662-653-6262

GET READY FOR A WONDERFUL DURANT AUGUST NIGHT OUT!

Celebrate the opening of school with family, friends, neighbors.

School Supplies, music, food, vendors, games. 

WHEN:  Wednesday, August 3, 2022              

WHERE:  Depot Street in Durant

TIME:  6:00pm until Dark

JOIN US FOR A BACK TO SCHOOL OPEN HOUSE

Come meet your Teachers and see your Classroom

WHEN:  Thursday,

August 4, 2022

WHERE:  Williams-Sullivan Middle School

14494 Hwy 51

Durant, MS

TIME:  5:00-7:00pm

For info: 662-653-6262

Student schedule can be picked up at 4:30pm

Dignity in Schools Campaign (DSC) COVID, TECHNOLOGY and EDUCATION COMMUNITY PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH 

 (DSC CTED CPAR)

This project engages students and parents in designing an carrying out research on the use of technology during COVID-19 pandemic and its ongoing impacts on public education, school climate, discipline and criminalization.

Parents and Students are asked to participate in completing an online survey. For participating, your name will be entered into a drawing for a $25 gift card.

Here are the links:

Student: 

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TYTVXYJ   

Parent:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TYMLWX3

"CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IS VIOLENCE":  BLACK COMMUNITIES VOW TO BAN SCHOOL PADDLING

By Laurie Udesky

May 1, 2022

https://mindsitenews.org/2022/05/01/corporal-punishment-is-violence-black-communities-vow-to-ban-school-paddlings/

MiindSite News - Shining a Light on Mental Health

Alabama elementary school principal accused of ‘excessive paddling’ of student. Principal on leave in Lawrence County.

Click to review video:

 Alabama elementary school principal accused of ‘excessive paddling’ of student (wnem.com) 

By Caroline Klapp and Andrew McMunn Published: Apr. 12, 2022 at 12:21 PM CDT

10TH ANNUAL NATIONAL WEEK OF ACTION AGAINST INCARCERATING YOUTH

                       May 15-21, 2022

        #noyouthinprison #savethekids

                         Agenda              

May 15: Counselors Not Cops

May 16: Keep Art & Musich in Schools

May 17: Brown v. Board of Education

May 18: Schools not Prisons

May 19: Malcolm X Birthday

May 20: Transformative Justice

May 21: Biggie's Birthday

Save the Kids (STK) founded in 2009 by four African-American youth incarcerated in a New York juvenile detention facility, is a national grass-roots fully-volunteer organization that advocates for alternatives to, and the end of, incarceration of all youth and the school to prison pipeline. 

315-657-2911 www.savethekidsgroup.org @stkgroup 

Please feel free to reach out to: National Week Coordinator, Hailey King, 936-203-4330, kinghaileynicole@gmail.com