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Tyler Floyd, a 2005 Hart County High School graduate, will be the instructor for the newly created Marine Engine Technology pathway in the Hart College and Career Academy, making Hart County just the third school system in the state to offer the pathway.
The Hart County Charter System (HCCS) is gearing up for another year of learning, but with each new school year comes a slurry of minor tweaks, adjustments and additions.
Free and reduced meal applications for the HCCS are now available online at myschoolapps.com, or you can pick up a paper copy at your child’s school. New applications must be submitted each year by parents or guardians in order to qualify for the program.
Breakfast will be served at no cost to all students in the HCCS during the 2023-2024 school year. Lunch costs at the elementary and middle school level will be $2.50 per meal, and high school lunches will run at $3. Any second meals for students will be charged at $3.75. Breakfast for adults will be $2, and lunch will cost $4.50.
The school district will be implementing Provision 2, an alternative meal counting and claiming process. The Hart County food service receives support from the U.S. Department of Agriculture through the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs. The school system receives additional money for meals served to children from households with income at certain levels.
For more information, or to see if your family qualifies, visit the HCCS website at hart.k12.ga.us, or call the District Office at (706) 376-5141.
Hart County High School (HCHS) will see the addition of a new pathway within the Hart College and Career Academy (HCCA) this fall. Students will now have the opportunity to enroll in a marine engine and maintenance pathway that is being taught by Tyler Floyd, a 2005 graduate of HCHS.
“We’re very excited to offer this new pathway to our students, and to create well-qualified candidates for our local industry,” said HCCA CEO Steve Burton. “We’re even more excited to have such an experienced, hometown guy like Mr. Floyd to lead the program.”
The new pathway was created to better meet the needs of students and industry within Hart County, Burton added.
“After reviewing our Certified Local Needs Assessment and student data, we decided that the Marine Engine Technology pathway would best meet the needs of our students and local industry,” Burton said.
For the first semester of the program, only the introduction class will be offered to students. Floyd, who is dually certified in Mercury inboard and outboard engines and plans to be certified with Yamaha soon, said the introduction class will be focused on learning the basics of combustion engines, the difference between 2-stroke and 4-stroke engines, as well as learning about each of the individual systems. For the lab component, students will get introduced to oil changes, spark plugs, and how to service engines overall.
“We’re going to learn the trade from top to bottom,” Floyd said. “What I want the kids to get out of it more so than just working on marine engines is values, morals, and manners. I want to not only prepare these kids to work on marine engines, but also prepare them to be decent, contributing men and women to society. Floyd added that his passion for passion on information he has learned in the industry is what drove him to enter the teaching field.
“I love what I do, and I love when people come and ask me questions about what I do,”
Floyd said. “I love to be able to articulate it to somebody who doesn’t have a clue and see it click in their mind.
“From early on in life I knew I was going to be some sort of mechanic, engineer, or something of that nature. I just love to take things apart and know how they work.”
Floyd also plans to help with the SkillsUSA program at HCHS. Floyd finished in the top five at the national competition for Marine Technology when he was in high school.
“I look forward to it. I hope to make it a popular class among the students,” Floyd said. “I hope I can relate to them, get on their level of respect and them be able to come to me with in-class issues and out of class issues. I want to be that type of teacher that they can trust in and out of the classroom.”
HCHS will also see an adjustment to the dress code this fall.
The leadership team at the high school recently met and decided that they will continue a program that allows students who have met certain requirements to “dress down” on Fridays.
Sweatpants and athletic or gym shorts are allowed to be worn during the school day, but they must be five inches or less from the knee. Leggings will also be allowed so long as the posterior is covered.
The finishing touches are being made prior to the arrival of students for the first day of classes on Monday, July 31.