WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Educators, students, and staff across the district wore black — a visual show of solidarity for colleagues leaving under Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools’ reduction-in-force plan.
Teachers walked hallways hugging co-workers, comforting students, and packing up rooms where they’d built relationships and memories.
Natalie Long-Stutts, an English teacher at Parkland High School and the district’s Beginning Teacher of the Year, says the cuts came as a shock…