Educating students takes a village
Updated: Apr 29

In many ways, 17-year-old Armondre Geter is an example of what the Greene College and Career Academy hopes to do for more students attending Greene County High School.
Armondre is a senior graduating in May. When he entered ninth grade at GCHS in August 2018, he was paired up with George Rountree as his Career Coach in what was the first year of the College and Career Academy.
For both Armondre, who has his whole life in front of him, and George, a retired Caterpillar Tractor executive, it was something new.

“I think it was weird in the beginning, but I think everybody got used to it,” Armondre told the Lake Oconee News during a recent meeting he and George had at the school. “I see him two times a month. He’s into a lot of stuff like applying to a college, any