Student Section Themes for this week are:
Tuesday, Jan. 25-- Jersey Day (wear your favorite jersey)
Thursday, Jan. 27-- Men In Black
We will be hosting the Class A Regional Basketball Tournament February 17-19. We'll need gate workers and help with the hospitality room. We'll work on a schedule for gate and food next week. If you think you can help out, please let us know.
Over the weekend the Quinton Speech team competed in a virtual tournament at Okmulgee. Congrats to the following students for placing:
Ashlynn Franklin, 1st, MO,
Claire Lowrimore, 1st, Poetry
Chesney Higgins, 2nd, Poetry
Patrons of Quinton Public Schools. At this time we are planning to have all sites open for in person instruction on Monday. Hopefully we have the worst of this round behind us. Please remember this is an ever changing situation. As always, we will update you if anything changes. Thank you for your understanding.
The JH Basketball game scheduled for Monday with Whitefield has been cancelled.
Next week is Basketball Homecoming Week. Here is a list of spirit days:
Jan. 24 (Monday) PJ'S or Formal Wear. Choose which style best suits you.
Jan. 25 (Tuesday) Rocker or Rapper. Are you an 80s Hair Metal Band member or is Slim Shady more your style?
Jan. 26 ( Wednesday) Anything but a backpack. How creative can you be hauling your school supplies around?
Jan. 27 (Thursday) Spirit Day. Rock your Kelly Green and White.
We had some great questions about the upcoming bond. I will do my best to answer those so bear with me this may be a long post. The land purchase adjacent to the Event Center. We had the opportunity to purchase this land. This allows us to serve the future needs of the district in several possible ways. Storage for equipment, a potential softball/baseball hitting facility ( which we really don't have now) and additional parking. If you have been to a recent graduation or elementary program you have already seen the great need for additional parking. Crossing a dark highway is not really a great solution. This land was purchased for $75,000 over 10 years. For perspective, a new bus will run about $95,000. Before we decided to run this bond again I walked the current cafeteria with a general contractor. There is no way to expand the current cafeteria because north and east you have city streets, and south there already is a building and to the west you have a sidewalk, the main lines and a building. We reached $900.000 pretty quickly and still had no way to expand. We need more storage in the back because we order food in bulk to cut down costs. There are no restrooms for people to use and the dining area is not really large enough. The main issue other than that is the drain lines are not in very good shape. We would have to cut into the slab in the kitchen area and redo those lines which were laid in 1969. When you start cutting into a cement slab and replacing lines it gets crazy expensive in a hurry. . Where would the bond money go? First and foremost it will be used to build the cafeteria and kitchen. What money is left over will be used to refurbish other buildings. This would include windows, paint, and various other things. This would only be done after the cafeteria/kitchen is completed. Lastly, the one everyone always asks. How much will this cost me? If the bond passes it will raise property taxes $4.44 per year for every $100 you currently pay. If you paid $500 per year it would raise your yearly tax bill $22.20. If currently pay $1,000 per year it would raise your taxes $44.40 or about $3.70 per month. As always please feel free to either call 918-469-3100 or email at twilson@quintonschools.com. I will always be glad to answer your bond questions.
Patrons of Quinton Public Schools. As stated before our goal and intention is to provide quality in person instruction. Here is where we stand at this time.
Elementary- We will return to in person Wednesday. Almost all staff are expected to be present and we will be able to provide quality in person instruction.
JH/HS- At this time we will have well over half of instructors out the rest of the week. We will go Distance Learning at JH/HS only for the rest of the week.
There will be grab and go breakfast/lunch at the cafeteria from 10-10:45. We served almost 60 meals today. Please understand we are trying to do the best we can in an ever changing situation. Thank you for your understanding.
The cafeteria will have a breakfast and lunch grab and go from 10-11:30.
Parents and Guardians of Quinton School. We have had numerous staff call in today. We have exhausted all avenues but are unable to provide quality in person instruction tomorrow. We regret the late notice but we have done all we can to try to have in person tomorrow but we cannot. We will reevaluate tomorrow and make a decision
for Wednesday. Please check back
tomorrow for
updates. We will be
disinfecting and cleaning tomorrow. Thank you for your understanding.
Here is a link for a couple of scholarships with the Cherokee Nation
https://cherokeenation.academicworks.com
Patrons of Quinton Public Schools. It is our goal and intention to provide quality in-person instruction for our students. As of today we have had 8 positive cases District wide since we returned to school on Monday. We have had an increase in the number of people who have been notified of exposure and recommended to quarantine. At this time we feel we will still be able to provide quality in-person instruction when we return on Tuesday. (Please remember we are not in session for in-person or virtual for the holiday on Monday.) If you have a student test positive over this weekend please let their principal know by email if possible or by phone on Tuesday. Please check back for updates as you all know our situation could change daily. Thank you for your understanding and support.
Here are the brackets for the Porum Tournament next week.
The JH game scheduled for tomorrow at Whitefield has been cancelled.
The JH Basketball game that was scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 18th at Monroe has been cancelled.
Patrons of Quinton Public Schools. After much deliberation and discussion we have made the decision to close the Elementary playground after school hours. There has been an increasing volume of vandalism and destruction of school property despite our measures to stop it. The police have been making patrols around the campus & will increase those patrols with this closure. Hopefully, we will be able to open these areas again to the public in the near future. Thank you for your understanding.
Friday's game against Leflore has been postponed. We will update with any new information when we have it.
Tonight's game against Panama has been postponed. We will let you know more as far as the rest of the week and any rescheduled games as we know. Thank you for your understanding.
The game tonight at Savanna has been cancelled.
Tuesday's HS Basketball game at Savanna has been postponed. We are working on rescheduling it.