Virtual disbelief: Quarantining Ratliff named Columbia County's top teacher

  • Burney Ratliff, reacts to being named the 2022 Columbia County Teacher of the Year, during his Zoom computer connection as Glenn Palmer, Pathways Academy assistant principal, smiles and cheers in the background. (COURTESY)
    Burney Ratliff, reacts to being named the 2022 Columbia County Teacher of the Year, during his Zoom computer connection as Glenn Palmer, Pathways Academy assistant principal, smiles and cheers in the background. (COURTESY)
  • Carlos Brown, the Columbia County Schools’ 2020 School-Related Employee of the Year (left), receives a key to the city from Lake City Mayor Stephen Witt at Thursday’s banquet. (COURTESY)
    Carlos Brown, the Columbia County Schools’ 2020 School-Related Employee of the Year (left), receives a key to the city from Lake City Mayor Stephen Witt at Thursday’s banquet. (COURTESY)

    Lex Carswell’s message Thursday should been taken as a prophecy.

    “I don’t think anything summarizes covid like tonight,” said Carswell, the Columbia County Schools superintendent, as he addressed a cro…