The program is designed to meet each child’s individual needs through the computer-based curriculum of N.C. Virtual Public High School. Three teachers from Trask and one from Topsail High School facilitate the sessions. Part of the program’s focus is helping these students reconnect to school.

“Part of the reason they dropped out was not feeling connected,” said Jeremiah Johnson, assistant principal at Cape Fear Elementary School and an alternative programs coordinator for the district. “It helps to form a relationship with someone in the school building, and that’s the counselor’s job.”

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Along with the possible consolidation of schools, Burke County Public Schools will more than likely see foreign language programs cut from middle and high schools.

Rexanna Lowman, the director of secondary education, said the high schools would revert to two foreign languages, Spanish and French, while the middle schools would lose all foreign language programs.

Freedom High School would retain one German class, Lowman said. But the remaining high schools would lose their German programs and East Burke and Draughn also will lose their Latin programs.

Lowman cited the schools’ $12 million budget deficit and smaller high school populations as reasons for the cuts.

“None of this is good. None of it is anything that the system wants to do but, because of our budget shortfalls we’ve got to do something,” Lowman said.

Lowman said students could still take foreign language classes, including in languages not offered in the county such as Mandarin Chinese, online through North Carolina Virtual Public High School.

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