The Hardin County Board of Education voted to amend the 2025-26 school calendar at its meeting this evening. The last day of school for K-12 students is May 21, 2026.
"On April 19, 2016, President Barack Obama stepped away from the weight of the Oval Office and into the quiet backyard of a Chicago neighborhood, where a moment unfolded that no speechwriter could ever script — a little girl, no taller than his waist, extended her small hand toward the most powerful man in the world, and he leaned all the way down to meet her, eye to eye, as if nothing else in the universe mattered more than that single handshake. White House photographer Pete Souza, who spent both Obama terms documenting not the grand ceremonies but the in-between human seconds, captured this image as part of his deliberate mission to show a presidency that breathed, laughed, and knelt down for children. Souza later reflected that these 'quiet photographs spoke louder than any press conference,' and this one proved his point without a single word spoken. Behind the two figures, neighbors leaned over fences, a woman lifted her phone to preserve the miracle of the ordinary, and the afternoon light fell soft over a grassy yard that looked like a million American backyards — because it was. Obama had famously told his staff that he needed these moments, these unscripted slips into real life, to remember why the work mattered at all. Historians now regard the Souza archive of over 1.9 million photographs as one of the most intimate presidential records ever assembled, and nestled inside that vast collection are hundreds of frames just like this one — a giant made gentle, a title made invisible, a moment that reminds every person who sees it that dignity is not diminished by kneeling down, but deepened by it, and that the truest measure of any leader has never been how high they rise, but how willingly, how warmly, how completely they come down."
They removed the word "racism" 109 times from a college textbook in Florida. They erased an entire chapter on Race and Ethnicity. They reduced Shirley Chisholm, a trailblazer who broke barriers for every Black woman who came after her, to a single footnote. You cannot erase racism by removing the word from a textbook. You cannot rewrite history by pretending it did not happen. Our ancestors BLED, marched, & died for the truth to be told. We will not be silenced! ✊🏿https://t.co/d1QYiUfdGT
@GovAndyBeshear Thank you, Governor!
Some of these comments!! Especially addressing adultery! And who did you all vote for for president! I’m sure not an adulterer!!
RIP Rev. Jesse Jackson!