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FSHS Talking Tigers Place First in Debate Tourney
Congratulations to the Fort Scott High School Talking Tigers on their 1ST PLACE win at DeSoto on November 13!
In the Open Division, Neil and Shekhar Gugnani took 1st place with 5-0 record.
In the JV division, Cadence Tuck and Joy Self took 1st place with a 5-0 record.
Even though our other teams didn’t place, their wins helped to contribute to our first-place win as a team. Congratulations Tigers!!
Submitted by coach/teacher Angella Curran
Debate Team Donates to The Beacon
The Fort Scott High School Talking Tigers debate team donated items to benefit The Beacon pantry as one of their NSDA service projects. Items were dropped off on Nov. 11.
U234 News Release
NEWS RELEASE
Monday, November 8, 2021
Members of the USD 234 Board of Education met at the Fort Scott Middle School Commons on Monday, November 8, 2021, for their regular monthly meeting.
President James Wood opened the meeting. The board approved the official agenda. The board also approved the consent agenda as follows:
A. Minutes
B. Bills and Claims
C. Payroll – October 20, 2021 – $1,447,671.65
D. Financial Report
E. Activity fund accounts
F. FFA Extended Trip Application
G. Parent/Teacher Conference statistics
Board members watched a video of Winfield Scott students utilizing new technology as they learn to produce daily announcements. Board members heard the following reports:
· Audit Report from Terry Sercer
· Fort Scott KNEA Report from Brenda Hill
· Administrators’ Reports
· Academic Director’s Report
· Superintendent’s Report
· Business Manager’s Report
Board members approved the ESSER II funds application. In addition, the board approved a January 2022 retention bonus of $500 per employee.
The board members reviewed and updated the USD 234 Area of Focus. In addition, board members approved the following:
· Roof consulting proposal from Benchmark, Inc.
· Resolution 21-09 for Withdrawal from Kansas Educational Risk Management Pool
· RPS Broker Agreement
· Benefits Committee recommendation for health insurance
· Erate Application Funding Year 2022 Contract
· Employee Safety Manual
· Memorandum of Understanding with CHC for COVID-19 testing
· Memorandum of Understanding with Fort Scott KNEA
The Fort Scott Middle School VIP Fall Extravaganza will be held on November 22, 2021, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. in the middle school commons and gymnasium.
Board members shared comments and then went into executive session to discuss personnel matters for nonelected personnel and returned to open meeting. The board approved the following employment items:
A. Retirement of Fredina Gonzales, bus driver, effective December 1, 2021
B. Resignation of Robert Jackson, Eugene Ware/Fort Scott Preschool Center custodian, effective Novembe4 5, 2021
C. Resignation of Mary Watson, middle school paraprofessional, effective October 29, 2021
D. Leave of absence for Brent Cavin, middle school social studies teacher
E. Employment of Kaytelynd Keller as a Winfield Scott paraprofessional for the remainder of the 2021-22 school year
F. Employment of Akasha Clements as a middle school paraprofessional for the remainder of the 2021-22 school year
G. Employment of Jonny Larsen as a 12-month, 8-hour Eugene Ware/Fort Scott Preschool Center custodian for the remainder of the 2021-22 school year
H. Resignation of Amy Keeton, Eugene Ware paraprofessional, effective Nov. 7, 2021
I. Employment of Jade Johnson as a high school assistant softball coach for the 2021-22 school year; Employment of Tom Robertson as high school head boys’ golf coach for the 2021-22 school year
J. Addition of a high school paraprofessional position for the 2021-22 school year.
The board adjourned.
FSHS Talking Tigers: All Teams Placed in Debate Tourney
On Saturday, November 6, FSHS Talking Tigers competed at the Parsons debate tournament. They placed 2nd overall and in the open division, all four of our teams placed!
Neil and Shekhar Gugnani placed 1st
Cadence Tuck and Regen Wells placed 3rd
Anna Hall and Caitlynn Tate placed 4th
Khris Patel and Lexi Hill placed 8th
GO TIGERS!!
Submitted by Angella Curran
Fort Scott High School
Speech Communications
Debate/Forensics
USD234 Board Agenda for Nov. 8
Unified School District 234 Board Agenda
November 8, 2021
5:30 p.m.
Fort Scott Middle School Commons
Live Stream on youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjaU97n6HwM9fYHltUChYXg
- Open the meeting
- Flag Salute
- Consider official agenda
- Consider consent agenda
- Winfield Scott presentation
- Audit Report from Terry Sercer
- Public Forum
- Fort Scott KNEA Report
- Administrators’ Reports
- Academic Director’s Report
- Superintendent’s Report
- Business Manager’s Report
- ESSER Update
- Review and update USD 234 Areas of Focus
- Consider roof consulting proposal from Benchmark, Inc.
- Consider Resolution 21-09 for Withdrawal from Kansas Educational Risk Management Pool
- Consider RPS Broker Agreement
- Consider Benefits Committee Recommendation – Health Insurance
- Consider Erate Application Funding Year 2022 Contract
- Consider Employee Safety Manual
- Consider Memorandum of Understanding with CHC for COVID-19 testing
- Consider Memorandum of Understanding with Fort Scott KNEA
- Fort Scott Middle School VIP Fall Extravaganza – November 22, 2021 – 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.
- Board member comments
- Executive session – to discuss personnel matters for nonelected personnel
- Consider Employment
- Adjourn
FSHS Presents the New Musical “Ranked”
The Fort Scott High School Performing Arts Department presents the new musical “Ranked” by Kyle Holmes and David Taylor Gomes.
Performances are Nov. 9, and 11 at 7 p.m. and Nov. 13 at 2 and 7 p.m. at the FSHS Auditorium. Over fifty FSHS students are involved in the acting, singing, dancing, and technical aspects of the show.
“Ranked” presents a dystopian high school where the theme, “Buy your grades. Buy your future. But what happens when the rest of the world finds out?” comes to the surface.
Rankedmusical.com describes the plot this way: “Lily is Above the Average, barely. Soon the giant, and very public, academic leaderboards will update everyone’s class rank, and for another day, everyone will know their place. If you fall Below the Average – say goodbye to college, and pretty much everything else… In the face of an intense and perverse culture of performance, Lily must find her place in the status quo as she watches friends and enemies alike destroy themselves and each other to score their way to the top. When an impossible lie is discovered, the fate of these students’ futures hangs in the balance.”
Tickets are $8 for adults and $6 for those under 18. Reserved tickets are available at fortscotthighschool.ludus.com or at the door. Doors open 30 minutes prior to showtime. Parental guidance is suggested.
Christian Heights School Chili Feed and Bake Auction, Nov. 6
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Bourbon County Bully Prevention Spirit Week Nov. 15-19
Next week is bully prevention week.
“We are getting ready for our week long Bully Prevention Celebration,” Jennifer Tourtillott, Student Support Specialist at Winfield Scott Elementary School, Fort Scott, said.
“We would love to invite all Bourbon County residents and businesses to join us,” she said. “When the students see members of the community involved, it lets them know that we are all against bullying and we’re in this together!”
November 15th-19th 2021
Bourbon County
Bully Prevention Spirit Week
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Monday, November 15th
PUT BULLYING TO REST
Wear your pajama’s to school. (No slippers)
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Tuesday, November 16th
WE ARE ALL ON THE SAME TEAM
Wear your favorite jersey to school
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Wednesday, November 17th
UNITY DAY
Wear RED in support of our district being bully free
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Thursday, November 18th
HELP Everyone Respect Others
Super H.E.R.O. Day
Wear your favorite superhero t-shirt (no face make up or costumes)
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Friday, November 19th
HATS OFF TO GOOD CHOICES
Wear your favorite hat to school
FSHS Talking Tigers Take Second in Sweepstake
Congratulations to the Fort Scott High School Talking Tigers on placing second in sweeps at Olathe East on October 30.
In the open division, Kinsley Davis and Lillian Collins placed 6th and Neil Gugnani and Shekhar Gugnani placed 1st with a 5-0 record.
In the JV division, Caitlynn Tate and Anna Hall placed 8th.
Thade and Berkley won the partner costume contest as Napoleon Dynamite and Uncle Rico.
“We had a blast at this Halloween-themed tournament,” said coach Angella Curran.
Veteran’s Day Performance Nov. 8 by Eugene Ware Students
Eugene Ware Elementary School Youth Choir will present a “Veterans Day Performance” for third grade during PLC Time at the school on Monday, November 8, at 8 a.m.
“This performance will be recorded and sent out to parents of those students,” Mary Jo Harper, music teacher at the school said.
FSHS Presents the New Musical “Ranked”
The Fort Scott High School Performing Arts Department presents the new musical “Ranked” by Kyle Holmes and David Taylor Gomes.
Performances are Nov. 9 and 11 at 7 p.m. and Nov. 13 at 2 and 7 p.m. at the FSHS Auditorium, 1005 S. Main. Over fifty FSHS students are involved in the acting, singing, dancing, and technical aspects of the show.
“Ranked” presents a dystopian high school where the theme, “Buy your grades. Buy your future. But what happens when the rest of the world finds out?” comes to the surface.
Rankedmusical.com describes the plot this way: “Lily is Above the Average, barely. Soon the giant, and very public, academic leaderboards will update everyone’s class rank, and for another day, everyone will know their place. If you fall Below the Average – say goodbye to college, and pretty much everything else… In the face of an intense and perverse culture of performance, Lily must find her place in the status quo as she watches friends and enemies alike destroy themselves and each other to score their way to the top. When an impossible lie is discovered, the fate of these students’ futures hangs in the balance.”
The new musical was conceived by Granite Bay High School in 2018 and debuted just weeks after the College Admission Scandal took the nation by storm.
“‘Ranked’ offers students the opportunity to shed light on the pressure placed on them to perform to the point of perfection, despite the inequities they may face in society,” Theatre Director Angie Bin said. “This musical has given the students significant buy-in as a way to share the stressors that many of them face.”
The production is also directed by Music Director Whitley Chesney, Choreographer and Assistant Music Director Mary Jo Harper, and Technical Director Alex Chesney.
“This is my first time as a music director for a musical. It’s wonderful to learn with these students. I enjoy working with students that aren’t in choir, as I never see them outside of rehearsal,” said Whitley Chesney. “‘Ranked’ has been a great show for students to experience real world issues. We have been able to have several conversations about how things in the show can relate to our lives. It has been cool to see how the students take their own experiences and incorporate them into their acting choices.”
Lily is portrayed by junior Courtney Shelton. Other lead actors include juniors Ella McElroy and Israel Carreno, senior Ashlynn Bagnall, and sophomores Casey Gomez and Lexi Hill.
Tickets are $8 for adults and $6 for those under 18 and are available at fortscotthighschool.ludus.com or at the door. Parental guidance is suggested and seating is limited. Doors open 30 minutes prior to showtime.