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Not a big surprise but it looks like opposition is mounting against a proposed ABC store next door to the SCALE Academy. As an olive branch, the Greensboro ABC board has offered to give the school a surveillance camera to monitor students outside. They are also proposing placing their store entrance on the north side of their building; the school’s main entrance is on the south side. And the ABC folks say they’ll do extra alcohol awareness training at the school.

So my question to you is obvious: Should the ABC board be allowed to build the new liquor store next to SCALE? Does it represent a real threat to kids in general and specifically kids already labeled at-risk by the system? Or is this all a bunch of holier-than-thou hooey demonizing a responsible business?

As many of you Chalkboard devotees may know Morgan Josey Glover is tackling the green movement. She’ll be blogging about environmental issues impacting our community so check it out, lots of interesting stuff going on.

I’ll be your new K-12 reporter. A little bit about me; I’m a UNCG graduate and taught remedial reading and creative writing for a year at High Point Central High School and then literature at Oak Ridge Military Academy. I later reported north of here in Rockingham County for over three years before joining the team here at the N&R in February, reporting on higher education.

I’ll do my best to keep the blog updated with new info on what’s going on in our schools and what our elected officials are doing.

Now that you know a little about me tell me about you. Let’s start off with a simple question, what would you like to read about more regarding K-12?

I apologize for the sparse postings over the past few weeks; my daughter has been hospitalized since Aug. 1 so I have been in and out of the office. Hope everyone's first week of school went well.

You may be aware that the News & Record is switching its online publishing system to Drupal. I'm not the best person to detail the benefits of this new system, but I wanted to advise you of the following: only online stories as of December 2007 will be relinked on news-record.com. Visitors to the main site may not care about this, but I understand that any previous stories linked on this blog will be inaccessible. I will try to keep this in mind as I write future posts that include references to past stories or historical data. I might have to re-upload documents on my hard drive that were given URLs, but I will deal with that on a case by case basis. Thanks.