Living history: School board hears about students’ field trip

Living history: School board hears about students’ field trip

After taking the Bainbridge High School basketball cheer team on a field trip to Alabama, coach Kimberly Barthel had one request for the student-athletes: write a five-paragraph essay about what they learned. When the team pushed back, Barthel admitted she was just teasing. But then she received a text from cheerleader Amari Thompson — she wrote that essay, and she read it aloud at Thursday’s Decatur County Board of Education meeting. “This trip…