Only a handful of Cushing residents knew why for the past two weeks Amos Lee would show up to school well before the doors opened and stay long after other students had left, or the reason he missed the opening day of bow season.
The ceremony held behind Chireno ISD Friday afternoon was short, but it was packed.
John Derrick, vice president of Douglass ISD, is the first to say that his hometown isn’t a place most people notice, or even ask about, but that does nothing to quell the pride he has.
A new school year inevitably means new faces, whether it's transfer students, new faculty and staff members or kids just entering the school system, but at Chireno ISD, the new faces won't officially be part of the school.
In 2010, a potential Google employee queried the internet for an answer to one of the internet behemoths famously tough interview questions, asking about how many golf balls it would take to fill a school bus.
