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WS/FCS student walkouts over job cuts continue for a third week

Students march along the track at Hanes Magnet School in Winston-Salem.
Amy Diaz
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WFDD
Students marched along the track at Hanes Magnet School in Winston-Salem on Tuesday afternoon in protest of recent job cuts.

Student walkouts continued for the third week in a row in Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools on Tuesday over recent job cuts.

Hundreds of Konnoak Middle School students marched around the track and through the front parking lot, chanting “Save our teachers.”

They’re referring to the district’s recent decision to cut more than 300 positions in order to balance this year’s budget.

The cuts mainly impacted Exceptional Children teachers, non-instructional support staff and assistant principals.

At another walkout held at Hanes Magnet School just an hour later, students chanted “Save Ms. Scott,” referring to their Assistant Principal Jerrica Scott, who was among those who lost their jobs.

These demonstrations follow others over the last two weeks, mostly at the high school level.

Amy Diaz began covering education in North Carolina’s Piedmont region and High Country for WFDD in partnership with Report For America in 2022. Before entering the world of public radio, she worked as a local government reporter in Flint, Mich. where she was named the 2021 Rookie Writer of the Year by the Michigan Press Association. Diaz is originally from Florida, where she interned at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and freelanced for the Tampa Bay Times. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of South Florida, but truly got her start in the field in elementary school writing scripts for the morning news. You can follow her on Twitter at @amydiaze.

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