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Franklin and Brentwood city, Williamson County and state offices will be closed Monday for Martin Luther King Jr. Day as will Williamson County and Franklin Special School District schools.
In Observance of Martin Luther King Day, all facilities of Williamson County Parks and Recreation The schedule for Franklin trash collection services this week: MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY (Monday Holiday) Large Brush and Bulky Items/White Goods WILL NOT be collected during this holiday week. Brown Bags and Blue Bags WILL be collected.
will be closed on Monday, January 16.
Facilities will reopen at their regularly scheduled times on Tuesday, January 17.
Williamson County, Centennial High School- home of the Cougars - has joined the Healthy Vending Revolution! Christy Sykes, owner of Healthy Vending Tennessee, has been installing Fresh Healthy Vending machines in local schools and businesses in Williamson County and Nashville. Centennial High School is the first Williamson County School to join the revolution. Sykes say "kids are more aware of healthier food options that ever before" and she wants to make those options available in and out of school. Sykes has children in Williamson County Schools and she feels the best place to start change is at home. The machines contain all-natural and organic options of drinks and snacks - and with over 500 items to choose from there is a machine to fit any locations needs.
Thanks to the Centennial High basketball cheerleaders for the photo!
The Tennessee Highway Patrol will assist local law enforcement efforts with a “Back to School” enforcement and education campaign of their own, focusing on traffic safety in and around the school zones. State Troopers will target traffic violators, specifically those who speed in school zones and pass stopped school buses, as well as raise awareness on school safety in Tennessee.
Newsweek magazine changed the way it calculates its annual list of the nation's top high schools, shuffling the Tennessee schools who made it.Perennial top winner Martin Luther King Jr. Academic High in Nashville is nowhere to be found on the list released today. But Hume Fogg Academic High, another list favorite, came in at 33rd in the nation.
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Williamson County school officials are alarmed to find in a 2008-2009 survey that nearly a third of high school juniors at that time- 32.2 percent- said they had used marijuana in the previous year.
That's this year's senior class, using drugs, alcohol and tobacco more than any other class in the past ten years.
Williamson County Director of Schools Mike Looney said, "The national trend is that drug use is going up, and the surprising part is that in Williamson County, 9th and 11th grades appeared to have exceeded the national average."
Looney said it's the first time that 9th and 11th graders have exceeded the national average when it comes to drinking alcohol, and juniors have exceeded the average in both smoking cigarettes and marijuana.
"The most likely place for them to use drugs is away from school," Looney said, "so parents need to know that when their children are at their friend's house, that is the place with the highest probability is for them to engage in those kinds of activities."
School is the least likely place students say they've used drugs or alcohol, because the risk, they say, is too great.
Looney said, "They know police officers are at school, they know we have random drug searchers, we had one at one of our high schools yesterday, so kids understand that there's a lot of risk in bringing that kind of thing to school."
Overall, many students don't feel they're taking much of a risk.
Less than half of the students surveyed said their parents would disapprove of their drug use.
"Probably is indicative of the changes in our culture," Looney said, "If you look at TV today, if you look [at] what's in the media, print, it just seems more widely accepted than it has been in the past."
School officials will use the survey to get a better handle on how drug prevention programs are working.
