Education

Survey: Tell us about safety in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools

By Anna Douglas

Updated December 17, 2021 11:40 AM

Photo from 2019, CMS students board a bus to Community House Middle School. We want to know what you’ve experienced in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools — whether as a student, parent, teacher, volunteer or community member — and we want to know your ideas for making things better. John D. Simmons Observer file photo

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The Charlotte Observer wants you to help shape our local news coverage of school safety.

Go here to take the survey.

Depending on the length of your responses, it should take about 10 to 15 minutes to complete.

We want to know what you’ve experienced in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools — whether as a student, parent, teacher, volunteer or community member — and we want to know your ideas for making things better.

In the survey (hosted by Google Forms), you’ll have the option to write a response or upload other media forms in order to participate. You can record your response on your phone with video and audio, for example. Or you can express yourself through art or illustration and upload that file.

If you have any questions or concerns, email me at adouglas@charlotteobserver.com

This story was originally published December 17, 2021 at 11:35 AM.

Anna Douglas

The Charlotte Observer

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Anna Douglas is The Charlotte Observer’s deputy managing editor and previously worked as an investigative reporter and news editor in the newsroom. Prior to joining the Observer, she worked as a local news reporter for The (Rock Hill) Herald and as a congressional correspondent in Washington, D.C., for McClatchy. Anna is a past recipient of the South Carolina Press Association’s Journalist of the Year award and the Charlotte Society of Professional Journalists’ Outstanding Journalism Award. She’s a South Carolina native, a graduate of Winthrop University, and a past fellow of the Dori Maynard Diversity Leadership Program, sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists. Anna has lived in Charlotte since May 2017.