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Clay County North Carolina a small

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town with a whole lot of charm where Majestic

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mountains breathtaking views for

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steamed water and friendly small town living are

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simply whether you're a part

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of a family who called this place home for dinner age

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one thing is

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for sure we are all passionate about something at the

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heart of our County and that is our amazing

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schools for the mission is for

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all of our students to graduate on time with

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the skills they need and

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plan for what's next of their choice now

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what we want to do what they want to do cuz that's when

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they get excited as when they can focus on what they went

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I've

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been wanting to go to Princeton since I was a freshman

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and I got it and I'm really excited about that

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and I think a lot of that is due

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to the teachers and the support system here to counselors

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I had people write amazing recommendation

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letters for me and it really

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guided me through the process of how to

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get how to get there you know even

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though I would work here if this was the oldest

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building on campus I do have the Privileges

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of working in the newest facility on campus

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it is amazing we have

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space to grow its unique

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everything is contained here we have our own cafeteria

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we have our own gym the

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safety is unparalleled because we are in a

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single facility that has

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only designated entry point

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my most favorite thing about

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it wasn't all of our kids enter through this one door and

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so I think that that is great because

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I can stand at the door and greet every soon as I walk in the door

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and I know who they are and so because we split

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into two smaller schools we have about 250-260

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kids and we know it

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and tell each morning have an opportunity

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to greet them and check in with them every morning is one of my favorite

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things about Hazel Elementary we

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were unique situation where our kids were

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adopted coming from different countries

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different backgrounds and experiences

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but what we look back on now

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and are so grateful for is that we had a faculty

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or staff that went out of their way to make sure that

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our students were made to feel like they were just part

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of the family they were just part of the community and from

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the beginning our Park

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is it only felt like this was their school their

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place to be in law

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so at a larger School your classes

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are broken down into certain medium so you

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might not get to take

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in class or you might not get to take a clay class

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where is it Hayesville we cover all kinds

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of different mediums in the class

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at the end of each semester

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I have an arch

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that's open to the public where we display all

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the students individual art and we have

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all kinds of local artists and teachers from

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Young Harris college the folks School

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everyone comes out to celebrate the wonderful

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art that students create your ideas for high school

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we have gear up which is

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a great stem Grant initiatives

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that we've been working on to really push them into

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our schools global

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yes it is we have working here on our campus as well

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we have teachers that they're going to Zimbabwe

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we have teachers going to Australia so

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we are Global even though we we sit here

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in Hayesville North Carolina the fifth school

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that I've been an administrator at

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which is

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the connection between the school and the

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parents and the community has come together here

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at the

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high school

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is that the our school partners with the low

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Community College and so that the students

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have an opportunity they can go to Early

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College there on the community college

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campus or they can take classes remotely

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and work towards their associate's degree so

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my daughter decided to do that and got her

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associate Sam and now has transition to

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Loyola in New Orleans and has

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been able to transfer those credits to that college

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program on our campus right now we

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have for Jim's we also have

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access to our rec department we have

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multiple facilities for practice for baseball football

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soccer which that enables

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to have easier practice times here

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at Clay County schools be

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level

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we're very proud of that I should have something here forever

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we have success in most all of those Sports

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we have highly qualified coaches coach any

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sports we're very proud of their progress

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and the way they maintain the tradition to Hayesville High School

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our

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motto for our district all students learning

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at high levels that was here when I got here and

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I thought it was the best motto we could ever have. I told

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everybody I wouldn't change that for anything because each

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individual student at whatever they

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used to do we want them to learn in high levels everyday

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what we've got here in Clay

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County is something special these are exciting

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times for our schools for the future is bright

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and Endless Possibilities await