Solon Salutes
2023-2024 School Year
- Report Cards will be mailed home this week.
Caregivers, if your student has an early release, please give the office as much advance notice as possible. If you call or email during the school day, your student may not get the message in time, especially after 1:00. You can always send your student with a note to bring me. Thank you for your cooperation on this matter. -Kathryn Nunnelley, Student Attendance Specialist, 802-225-8003, kathrynnunnelley@mpsvt.org
Athletic Participation Reminder: Attendance - In order for students to be eligible to participate daily in interscholastic events, they must be present the entire day. Therefore, students are not eligible to participate if they cut classes, or arrive to school late due to sickness or leave school early due to sickness. Students will be eligible to participate if they miss part of the school day due to a medical appointment.
Dropping a Course
Students who elect to drop a course must do so by the end of the second full week of each semester if they do not wish to have the drop noted on their permanent record. (Semester 2 deadline 2/9/24)
A course can be ADDED no later than the second full week of the semester.
Any course dropped by the end of the 1st quarter will receive a withdrawal “W” with no grade attached. (deadline 4/5/24) Any course dropped in the 2nd quarter, except in unusual circumstances, will receive a withdrawal fail “WF” with the grade they have for that class documented. (between 4/6/24 - end of the school year)- February 13th, 5:30-7:00 PM VSAC FAFSA forms night. Caregivers and Seniors come to MHS to complete FAFSA Forms with a VSAC Representative. More information to follow next week.
Hello MHS Community,
We hope you are well and had a great weekend. There is a great event happening tomorrow at MHS.
Tomorrow, from Kim Scott and Sue Monmaney "On Tuesday, Feb.6th, award-winning, local author Kekla Magoon will be visiting MHS and sharing about her most recent book: Revolution in Our Time: the Black Panther Party's Promise to the People. Kekla is the author of over a dozen young adult novels including The Season of Styx Malone, How It Went Down, Light It Up.
Kekla Magoon states that Revolution in Our Time "introduces readers to the Panthers' community activism, grounded in the concept of self-defense, which taught Black Americans how to protect and support themselves in a country that treated them like second-class citizens. For too long the Panthers' story has been treated as a footnote to the civil rights movement rather than what it was: a revolutionary socialist movement that drew thousands of followers and became the target of one of the most sustained repression efforts ever made by the US government against its own citizens.
Revolution in Our Time puts the Panthers in the proper context of Black American history, from the first arrival of enslaved people to the Black Lives Matter movement of today. Kekla Magoon's eye-opening work invites a new generation of readers grappling with injustice in the United States to learn from the Panthers' history and courage, inspiring them to take their own place in the ongoing fight for justice" (https://revolutioninourtime.com/)."
Check out these sites for additional information.
- Video (13 mins) - The Black Panther Party: Crash Course Black American History
- Smithsonian - includes short video overview & article
- https://revolutioninourtime.com/
MHS will have an all-student assembly during Solon Block, and some students will also participate in a workshop with Kekla. Thank you to Sue, Kim, the Cooked Class who made lunch for Kekla Magoon, and our students for their participation.
Sincerely,
Jason
- MHS Peer Tutoring is Back! Solons complete this form if you want to sign up for tutoring assistance.
A Solon Shout out to Exxon Mobile on Barre Street who donated $500.00 to MHS. We appreciate your support.
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MRPS Board Meeting Wednesday, February 7th at MHS 6:30 PM. Budget Update.
Opportunity for teens to join the 2nd Annual Youth-led FEAST Summit!
The 2024 VT FEAST (Food Education and Sustainable Thinking) is happening on May 22nd at Shelburne Farms, and we are looking for students to be on the ORGANIZING COMMITTEE or LEAD WORKSHOPS at the event. Planning committee members will get a stipend of $200. FEAST is an annual, youth-run summit where students interested in food education and sustainability get to network and learn from one another. If you would like your students to participate in this year’s FEAST, or have students that would like to take on one of these leadership roles, please fill out THIS FORM by Monday February 19, 2024.
