Barrow County begins school year with $2M security upgrade

Barrow County begins school year with $2M security upgrade

Students return back to Barrow County schools with the echoes of a mass school shooting at Apalachee High School and increased security.

First Day of School, but the Real Problem Remains

It’s August 1st, and kids in Barrow County, Georgia, are already heading back to school, which is ridiculous. Not just because it’s still summer by any rational standard, but because it’s Southern summer. Triple-digit heat indexes, sweat-soaked backpacks, and buses without AC. What a great way to kick off another year of “normal” in America. But nothing has been normal in Barrow County since last September. That’s when 14-year-old Colt Gray open…