Parents, Students Attend Orientation for Bibb Alternative School

MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Students who will be attending the Bibb County Academy of Excellence, or alternative program, this fall, along with their parents, attended orientation on Thursday night at the school district’s Welcome Center on Riverside Drive.

The director of the program, Alisha Allen-Carter, introduced the school’s new staff to the parents and students and went over student expectations.

The biggest question parents had was how the students will be transported to and from the alternative schools at Barden and Bloomfield Elementary and Hutchings Career Center.

“Our students will report to their home school,” says Allen-Carter.  “They will take their normal bus to their home school.  Each school will have a designated person and area that will receive our students and those students will then be picked up and shuttled from their home school to the Barton, Bloomfield, or Hutchings location.”

Also discussed at the orientation was the academy’s uniform policy.

All three academy sites will maintain the same policy.  Students must wear: khaki pants or skirt (no short pants are allowed); white, yellow, or gold polo shirt or button-front/button-up shirt; black, white, or brown belt (a belt must be worn with pants or a skirt that has belt loops); all black or all white tennis shoes (no colored laces, stripes, or emblems are allowed); white or black socks.  The uniform policy will be strictly enforced.

The district’s convocation will be held Friday morning at 8 a.m.  All Bibb County students will return to the classroom on Monday.