Teacher adopts children from China

Brooke Pearson, DEC Crew
October 26, 2012
Filed under Features, Top Stories, Video

Many students only interact with teachers during class time or additional assistance before or after school, which leads students to become unaware with what goes on in teachers’ outside lives. French teacher Agnes Wells was absent for six weeks during the second semester of last year, traveling to... Read more »

Parker transitions from middle school to high school

Max Waterhouse, DEC crew
September 28, 2012
Filed under Features, Features, Video

Dr. Beth Parker has been a teacher for 23 years and has seen the differences between middle and high school. “I started my teaching career in high school,” Parker said. She taught for five years at Henry County High School. Parker was a teacher for seven years at Renfroe Middle school. She... Read more »

Failure: teachers discuss the many aspects of failing a class

Sumar Deen and Leela Goshorn, Carpe Diem staff
May 23, 2012
Filed under Features

John Hudson “Math is the one class that people get really emotional about. They have either a very good or a very bad feeling about it when they get out of school. I remember failing my first math test in college. I was probably like a lot of Decatur High students. I was pretty smart but I didn’t... Read more »

Teachers & babies

May 18, 2012
Filed under Features, Features, Multimedia, Top Stories, Video

Having children is both a challenge and a blessing, now imagine having the job if educating hundreds more. Jay Brown and Britt Pendergrast talked to some of the faculty's newest parents. [vimeo 42403736 nolink]

Teacher of the Year defines teaching as a hobby

Kelsey Martin, Carpe Diem staff
May 15, 2012
Filed under News

Basketball coach and ESS study skills and US History teacher Charles Copp (Charlie) was awarded the honor of being Teacher of the Year this past year. This is Copp’s fifth year teaching at Decatur High School, and first year receiving the award. The Teacher of the Year award is a yearly award given... Read more »

Decatur’s teachers show their ink

Summer O’Neill, DEC crew
May 1, 2012
Filed under Features, Features, Multimedia, Top Stories, Video

The city of Decatur is often labelled by residents and critics as an interesting, accepting city. So accepting, that in certain workplaces (like DHS), professionals are allowed to display their body modifications proudly. 3Ten got to talk to some inked teachers about their own tattoos, and what good... Read more »

Science teacher loses two toes in lawn mowing mishap

Charlie Shew, Carpe Diem staff
April 26, 2012
Filed under News

Dreams of June afternoons filled with wading in rivers and going fishing constantly come across science teacher David Schaar’s mind. This image is not kept from reality because of the temperature of the water or by the time of year; it’s kept from reality because Schaar will spend that time between... Read more »

Fresh-ior teachers

Henry Schunk, DEC Crew
March 29, 2012
Filed under News, Top Stories

Freshmen and seniors are at opposite ends of the classroom spectrum. At one end there are all freshmen classes and freshmen teachers, and at the other there are all senior classes with senior teachers. But what about those classes where the teachers teach both freshmen and seniors in the same subject?... Read more »

Our voice: Pay some respect

Colleen Suratt, Carpe Diem staff
December 19, 2011
Filed under Opinions

Hollywood tends to hyperbolize reality. No one becomes engaged after four dates, nor would anyone dare drive in the opposite direction on the highway. Paramount Pictures’ 2007 film “Freedom Writers,” however, was nearly spot on. It displayed the reality of some of our nation’s high schools –... Read more »

Omar Collinton leads way as teachers rout students

Sam Levy, Carpe Diem Staff
November 14, 2011
Filed under Sports

The crowd hushed. Tension was in the air. The first home basketball game of the 2011-2012 season was about to start. The players on the floor prepared themselves for the tip. But there was one thing missing – the standard blue and gold jerseys of the Bulldogs. All of the players on boys and girls basketball... Read more »