Shallotte Middle School called unsafe, superintendent responds

BRUNSWICK COUNTY — Brunswick County school district Superintendent Katie McGee is responding to published reports she says imply that Shallotte Middle School is unsafe.

McGee acknowledges concerns of the school being overcrowded, but says that will be remedied come 2009. That’s when a brand new middle school opens up and takes some of the load off both Shallotte and South Brunswick Middle Schools.

As for safety, McGee wants to ensure parents that no drugs or related acts of violence have been reported at all this school year — and a K-9 search just last week turned up nothing.

There were four such reports in all of last year.