Schools Look To Get Back On Track After Tornadoes
Macon County Team Hopes Sports Lifts Area
POSTED: 5:53 pm CST February 11,
2008
UPDATED: 6:53 pm CST February 11,
2008
LAFAYETTE, Tenn. -- There was no school again on Monday in Macon and Trousdale counties to allow for more helping hands in the massive recovery effort.
Video: Basketball Player Has Home Destroyed But schools are set to resume this week for Trousdale County and next week for Macon County."We've got a lot of kids that were without power for three to five days, and we have some kids that lost everything,” said principal Toby Woodmore.
Trousdale County is one of two midstate school systems that have been closed since the tornadoes hit last week. The closings affect about 1,200 students in Trousdale County, and they head back to school on Wednesday."I think it’s really important that we get them back and out of houses, out of the homes where all the disasters happened. And of course in a small community, even if you had zero problems, you know everybody that did,” Woodmore said.Macon County students won’t return until next Tuesday. But the basketball teams are trying to get back to normal. The team’s senior night was on the road last Friday and junior Brent Davis’ home was destroyed."I just like playing, and as long as none of us are hurt in our family, then it will be fine," he said."We have 175 homes destroyed so we have a vast number of our student population as well as faculty and staff who’ve been affected,” said Stephanie Meador, a teacher at Macon County High School.Your coach just handed you this money from around the area, different coaches and stuff. What does that mean to you?” reporter Aaron Solomon asked Davis."It means a lot,” Davis said. “It means people actually care and they’re very nice people.""Here, we want to represent our community, and hopefully our community can look in the paper, look on TV or wherever, radio, and see that we’re playing and we’re doing, and maybe we can do good and they’ll be happy about that. At this point, we’re representing more than ourselves for sure," said Macon County Coach Jason Welch.Both schools basketball teams are in district tournament action this week.
Video: Basketball Player Has Home Destroyed But schools are set to resume this week for Trousdale County and next week for Macon County."We've got a lot of kids that were without power for three to five days, and we have some kids that lost everything,” said principal Toby Woodmore.|
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