Corrections

April 30, 2025

In the March 28 issue of the Southerner, the article on page 3 “District works to reduce deficit before 2025-26 school year,” comments from a member of the GO Team that spoke on behalf of Principal Dr. Betsy Bockman regarding the impact of the district’s budget deficit on Midtown are being retracted. These comments were in paragraphs 25, 26, and 27, in the paper and in the online story, posted March 18.

Additionally, online paragraphs regarding Beth Champ’s quotes concerning Dr. Bockman have also been retracted. These retractions were in paragraphs 30 and 31. 

“As a program administrator for Threshold Community Program, a nonprofit educational organization for neurodivergent individuals, Champ has experience working within a tight budget.

“As a school administrator myself, I empathize with Dr. Bockman’s position,” Champ said. “It’s incredibly challenging to work within what is already a stretched thin budget, and if APS decides to correct its deficit by that impact, then Dr. Bockman’s budget could be reduced. That’s a lot of tough choices that she’s going to have to make, and that the GO-Team will have to make in order to make sure that Midtown is still the high-quality school that the community expects it to be.””

July 8, 2020

In the July 7 story, “Community, alumni deliberate school name change,” the following quote was attributed to Rebecca Snow in error. The actual speaker was Hedy Schreibman Borenstein:

““Henry W. Grady should keep this honor, as well as the honored names of Grady Hospital, University of Georgia’s Grady School of Journalism and the Grady statue [in downtown Atlanta]. This is our history, this is our city, and this is our school, which we are proud to say we attended. Almost every alumni I’ve had contact with has supported keeping the name of Henry W. Grady in our city as a symbol of change and moving forward after the Civil War.”

Sept. 8, 2018

In the September print edition of the Southerner, the article  “A new generation of nicotine addicts” said 91 percent of the students surveyed know someone who uses an electronic vaping device. The correct percentage is 92 percent of students surveyed know someone who uses an electronic vaping device.

Oct. 16, 2018

A sports brief on page 14 of the Oct. 10 print edition of the Southerner said the JV football season ended with its game on Oct. 4. The team has a game on Oct. 18 against Douglass.