Nok Hun Kim is an anomaly. Unlike many in his elite group of peers who scored in the top 1 percent nationally on their PSATs, he doesn’t have his sights set on reaching a lofty ledge. Doctor, engineer, neurologist, astrophysicist or mathematician.He doesn’t know. He’s drifting.
Kristen Hsu
Green Valley High School
Genevieve Taylor
Green Valley High School
ADAM SIMS
DEL SOL
High School
DIANA IVEY
GREEN VALLEY HIGH School
Tackling the area’s toughest issues has long been the responsibility of the Las Vegas City Council. Now, kids are going to have a turn at it. The inaugural Ward 6 Youth Council, including students from Northwest Career and Technical Academy, Peterson Behavior Jr/Sr High School and Arbor View, Centennial and Shadow Ridge high schools, is scheduled to meet in January.
Students in the Clark County School District come into the lunchroom every day expecting a tasty meal, but few of them know the lengths that food service staff go through to feed all 309,000 of them. The staff at Kelly Elementary School near downtown Las Vegas, stands above the rest, having just received the district’s first Food Service Five Star Award for excellence in the areas of health, safety and attitude.
Any outcome in the pending arbitration between the Clark County School District and the Clark County Education Association could be devastating. If the district wins, teachers will have to pay back thousands in raises. If the teachers win, they keep the money, but the district warns that about 1,000 of them will need to be laid off.
The 58-year-old school floods when it rains, water gushing through storm drains.
Many schools in the Clark County School District go above and beyond traditional services to help their most needy students, offering meals, clothing, school and hygiene supplies and even dental care.
There is a table in the corner farthest from the door in Luanne Wagner’s classroom at Clark High School. On it is peanut butter and jelly. For several students, it is their breakfast, lunch and dinner. “Kids know they can come to me, and I’m here to help them,” Wagner said. “If you’re hungry, there’s food here.”
Turn to page eight of the December edition of The InvestiGator.
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