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Yahoo
2 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Triad teachers, students preparing for once-in-a-lifetime trip abroad to learn about Holocaust
(WGHP) — By now, most teachers across the country have said goodbye to their students, turned out the lights in their classrooms and started a well-deserved summer vacation. But there are dozens of North Carolina public school teachers from the coast to the mountains preparing for what will likely be a once-in-a-lifetime experience abroad learning about the Holocaust. That includes Damian Adame, who just finished his fourth year teaching World History to ninth-grade and tenth-grade students at Page High School in Greensboro. 'It's a mixed bag. There are a lot of emotions that go into it,' Adame said. 'There's excitement because this is honestly something that I've wanted to do. But, at the same time, it's also a little daunting.' Adame is one of nearly 40 North Carolina public middle and high school educators selected to travel to Poland to learn about the Holocaust in the very places where much of it happened. Led by retired Greensboro Rabbi Fred Guttman, they'll spend eight days visiting death camps, ghettos, communities and museums and eventually bring it all home to their students. 'One of the cool things about this trip is it's not just a tour of the camps. It's not just a tour of these areas where the events occurred,' Adame said. 'It's a walking classroom. We're going to learn and take all these things and implement them in our classroom in a brand-new way.' The trip is funded by many organizations and private donors, including longtime Holocaust education advocates Zev and Bernice Harel of Greensboro. Zev is a Holocaust survivor who was sent to several death camps as a teen, including Auschwitz and Ebensee. He spent decades sharing his story all over the world. 'I felt comfortable doing that because the Holocaust was an experience that not too many survive,' Harel said. 'Each time [I was] speaking about human adaptation and what survivors did in order to make it possible to survive.' 'At some point, the survivors realized that if they didn't start talking, everything that happened and everything they witnessed would disappear with them eventually,' Bernice said. Now, at 95 years old, Zev isn't able to share his story like he used to. So in a lot of ways, this Holocaust education trip is picking up where survivors left off, ensuring stories such as Zev's continue to get told. 'Every person that goes on this trip is hopefully going to have a deeper understanding, but it's also going to give them a deeper connection,' Adame said. 'It's going to make us more motivated to give a better scope of what's going on with this event.' The teachers leave for Poland on Monday, and FOX8's Katie Nordeen and McKenzie Lewis have been invited to join them. You can expect their special stories on Teaching the Holocaust in September. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
12-02-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Guilford County students, staff concerned about remote learning days
GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — Students, parents and staff have endured a long winter of school closures and remote learning. 'I don't like how comfortable they are with being able to give remote learning days because remote learning is not fun,' said Maggie McNees, a senior at Page High School. On Tuesday, Guilford County Schools switched to virtual learning because of the weather. The winter weather advisory for the county prompted the GCS team to decide the risk was not worth it to have school in person for bus drivers, parents and everyone else who has to drive. Some students and staff want the district to find another solution for potential winter weather. Instead of in his classroom at Andrews High School, Jim McSorley worked at the Kathleen Clay Edwards Family Branch Library. 'Working on a desktop, I can work twice as fast as on a laptop … Remote learning is not my favorite. Let's just put it that way,' McSorley said. After the last stretch of remote days, the impact on the test scores was clear. 'Just being completely honest, my kids bombed the final exam compared to last semester when they had face-to-face time to review with teachers,' McSorley said. It is a critical time for seniors applying to college and scholarships. 'A lot of high school students are not going to get online,' McSorley said. Except for McNess. 'I already did my Spanish assignment … and I just turned in my history paper,' McNess said. On Tuesday, she sat at her dining room table at home. 'It is back-to-back calls that are 25 minutes,' McNess said. McNess says it is not always valuable depending on the teacher and wants the district to look at other solutions to deal with the weather. 'There needs to be some more permanent solution because calling online school on a random day … harms most of the high school versus those few people you need to be finding a solution for,' McNess said. Everyone understands the safety concern. 'One bus crash is too many, and the superintendent, they have to take that into account,' McSorley said. But he doesn't want the entire student body to be impacted every time. 'I don't know if there is just same way that it could be by principal's decision or by geographic decision,' McSorley said. The district still has about three days to use before they have to make up days. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
