Keeping The Kitchen Open, To Graduate

Grant Blankenship, GPB News Reporter|October 5, 2020

Part of the culinary program at the Bibb County School District’s Hutchings Career Academy is a high end restaurant which students staff. If the restaurant isn’t making money, the students aren’t earning the credits to graduate. So what to do when COVID-19 hits pause on dining out? With the help of their instructor, the students have adapted.

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Siblings Quinyonna Tooks, right, and Charles Knott do their schoolwork in the Oglethorpe Library in Macon County. Charles is not a fan of remote learning. “I don't like it,” he said. “In school is better for me. I can focus in there with the teachers.”

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Keeping The Kitchen Open, To Graduate

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