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2 THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5,2012 Community Cooper named Teacher of the Year at PCMS By CATHY WILSON Staff Writer This year’s Teacher of the Year (TOY) at Per quimans County Middle School became a teacher and a mother on the very same day. Sandra Cooper, a lan guage arts teacher for the past six years, gave birth to a premature baby 38 years ago. Complications from being a preemie left the child deaf. She began teaching her son in an ef fort to help him be happy as a child and grow into an independent and produc tive young man. As she watched him grow and become educat ed in a school that special izes in teaching the deaf, she realized that helping the men tally or physically challenged would be her chosen path. “Life (my per sonal ex Cooper periences of raising a deaf child) put teaching in my path, love put teach ing in my heart,” wrote Cooper in her TOY appli cation. “I feel my greatest contributions and accom plishments in education have been affording each student the opportunity to experience success and in spiring them to always try to give and do their best in all they do. For the ability to succeed is locked deep inside each of them, how ever, it is not always easy to bring it to the surface-to say the least. My job, my success comes in know ing that they too realize the greatness that lies in side of them; and the fact is that they can achieve if they only believe and add a little effort.” The 24-year education veteran taught English and History for 16 years at Perquimans County High School before transferring to PCMS. Prior to that, she was a teacher’s assistant for two years at Sheep Har vey Elementary School in Elizabeth City where she resides. She is a graduate of Elizabeth City State Uni versity. “I believe education is the nucleus from which one builds a solid founda tion to become a produc tive contributor to society,” Cooper noted. “It is my be lief that each institution of learning starting at home, then school and the community should serve as a magnetic field which attracts and cultivates the minds of all children to strive for excellence.” “I believe that the mind of each and every child is like a field waiting to be cultivated to plant seeds of knowledge to keep our world free, honest and pro ductive for generations to come,” she added. “When I hear a child say ‘I’ll do my best’, and they do it-T’ll try’ and they do it-’I have it now’ and they prove it, my heart overflows with joy” Cooper believes that educating children takes a collaborative effort shared by parents, teachers and the community. She also believes that the major issue facing public educa tion today is the lack of fi nancial assistance to sup port vocational programs that would help prepare students to be career ready after high school. “Not every student will or will want to go to a four-year university or a two-year college,” Coo per stressed. “We need a vocational program in high school offering such courses as auto mechan ics, brick masonry, cos metology, industrial arts, woodworks, certified nurs ing assistant which would allow students to not only be qualified but certified at the end of their senior year.” “These programs bridge high school and real world life together for that child that is not college mate rial at graduation from high school,” she contin ued. “With this type of program in place, it would decrease the drop out rate, eliminate behavior issues, and increase business and job rates. Education should not be a one size fits all; all children wear shoes, however, they all wear different sizes. That is why I believe vocational program offerings in high school would promote self esteem, high school gradu ation rates, and improve society’s overall economic growth.” Read Perquimans news stories online at www.DailyAdvance.com Bonus well. The special leave days must be taken by June 30, amount of leave. Perma nent part-time state em ployees will also receive the time off for school employees because the county provides a local YIPING FANG,DDS Family, Cosmetic & General Dentistry Emergencies - Same Day • New Extended Hours to accommodate patients. Visa/MC & Care Credit Accepted Office Hours: Monday & Tuesday: 8-5 • Wednesday: 8-4 • Thursday: 7-4 1st Friday of each month: 8-12 New Patients Welcome 212 Ainsley Avenue, Hertford, NC 252-426-5585 FORTUNE 500' COMPANY HOW TIIE DIRT UNDER OUR NAILS PLATE MILL WIELD, The secret to our success is hard work. Roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty kind of work. 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The special vacation days are provided to eli gible full-time employees employed with the state as of July 1,2012. Employees who work less than 12 months a year will receive a pro-rata OPEN NOW Past Times 1 Sweepstakes ! 141 Ocean Hwy. ITS, Hertford, NC Food • Drawings Daily Promotions 10am - 10pm 426-9100 a pro-rata amount of the five special days. School personnel are not the only local state employees who will re ceive the additional week of vacation time this year. Perquimans Extension Director Lewis Smith notified county commis sioners last month that the state has provided the special days to their eli gible employees as well. Commissioners agreed to the provision since the county shares extension’s salary with the state. Commissioners were not required to approve Grant Continued from Page 1 software needed for student experiments, and the rest on supplies and overhead. “School districts were innovative and creative in their applications,” said Deborah Patterson, the Monsanto Fund president. “We are really looking for ward to seeing the propos- supplement for teacher salaries which are paid through the state salary schedule, noted Frank Heath, county manager. In other school mat ters recently, members of the Perquimans Board of Education approved re placing aging cameras in yellow school buses and adding security cameras to the school system’s activity buses this school year. Fortress Systems In ternational will do the contract work on 38 buses for $53,846. The project is expected to take one-two weeks to complete. als come to fruition and learning how the students benefit from them.” Besides Perquimans, oth er North Carolina districts to get money were in Cra ven, Beaufort and Rowan counties. 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