JUNE
17, 2014 – Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools
is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the consolidation of the city
and county school systems. As part of that, we’re recognizing people who are a
product of the school system who now work for the school system.
Melissa Edwards |
Melissa Edwards, who graduated from East Forsyth High School
in 1997, is a District Instructional Technologist.
Edwards went to Griffith Elementary
School through second grade and completed elementary school at Hall-Woodward.
She went to Philo Middle School. When she was a junior at East, she was
seriously injured when another car struck her car as she was leaving school. “I
had just made the varsity volleyball team,” Edward said.
She was unable to go to school for a
number of weeks. When she was able to return for the second semester, the
people in the school system arranged it so that she could spend her mornings at
Parkland High School, which had a block schedule that enabled her to take
classes she had missed, and her afternoons at East so that she could catch up
with her classes.
“I have a lot to be thankful for in
how they worked with us,” Edwards said.
She also worked hard to be ready to
try out for the volleyball team for her senior year. She made it. “That was one
of my goals,” Edward said.
Because of everything she had gone
through and how well she had succeeded, she was one of the students from
throughout the state invited to represent their school districts when Gov. Jim
Hunt was inaugurated.
Edwards joined the school system in
2007 as a teacher at Diggs Elementary School. She also taught at Forest Park
Elementary School before going to work out of Central Office. She likes working
for the school system.
“It’s a neat way to pay back everything that was done
for me,” Edwards said.
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