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1870-2017 Wadsworth City Schools: “Celebrating 147 years of Excellence in Education” VOLUME XLIII VOLUME XLIII NO.NO. 2 1
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Community rallies around athletic success BY COLIN WRIGHT
soccer, and football). As was evidenced two years ago with our girls’ basketball state title, community support and pride were very strong. I would anticipate nothing but the same if our football program was able to achieve the same goal.” “A rallying point in any community is usually high school athletics. Our community goes above and beyond to support our student athletes and teams,” says Mr. Berg. “Look around town. Everything has the Grizzly logo, or uses the Grizzly name. It’s something everyone can be a part of, and take pride in.”
With the recent success of the Wadsworth Grizzlies football team, soccer teams, cross country team and volleyball team, the Wadsworth community has seen an outpouring of support for the Grizzlies. The people of Wadsworth have always been major supporters of the Wadsworth students. This is apparent to anyone who attends athletic events or fine arts performances. Strong support is not only beneficial to the community, it is also enjoyed by the students. Knowing that they have such strong support is hugely beneficial. “The bigger the event, “The Wadsworth community is an avid the more Grizzly fans supporter of our schools, in attendance. You including our athletic can count on it.” programs, fine arts, etc. Any time one of -Mr. Musgrave our programs has a high If you visit any local level of success, there is a great sense of community pride,” businesses around town during writes Superintendent Andy the fall, you will notice a Hill. “We’ve been fortunate this proudly-displayed poster with fall to have a number of our a Wadsworth football player or athletic teams win Suburban cheerleader on the windows and League titles (boys’ and girls’ doors. Those are all provided
PHOTO BY GREG MCILROY
A shot of the stands from the Wadsworth vs. Stow game. The Grizzlies won 41-28 in this exciting matchup and had a packed house to root them on.
by the Wadsworth All-Sports Booster Club, and it serves as another way the community comes together to support our teams. Wadsworth community members always bring an impressive showing to away events. The visitor stands of our opponents are always packed with red and white, rain or shine. “We are very blessed to have such a loyal following for our
Wadsworth adopts new state absence policy
BY ANNA BOWLING
With the turn of the new year, students can expect a new policy on how their hours of absence are determined. Instead of working with half days and full days, there is now more leniency with how they miss school. The former attendance policy only allowed for ten days of school to be missed by a student. This could be used by doctors appointments, illness, and field trips. This policy has recently changed and students will soon able to miss sixty-five hours of instructional time based on different statistics. Instead of being marked absent for a half or full day, kids will now be marked with missed instructional time by period. The biggest changes that kids and their parents will see with the attendance in progress book is the definitions of absences. The five descriptions that could be seen would be excused absence, unexcused absence, non-absence, excused truancy
and unexcused truancy. These changes have not been put into effect yet, but the school system hopes to have the plans implemented by the days following Christmas Break. While administration hopes to have a seamless transition, there are some kinks that still need to be worked out. The attendance and main offices have left some aspects out of the conversation. “The school sees this as an intervention plan to see kids in schools, and keep seeing these kids in school,” says Mr. Kresowaty, the attendance officer
of the school. School officials will have to submit a monthly report that includes truancies, absences, suspensions and field trips. These reports will be submitted for Wadsworth through Mr. Kresowaty. He has to calculate all the periods into hours, and the system has not yet been finalized by the code writers at the state of Ohio. With the system being implemented around Christmas, kids still have time to learn how this is going to affect them, and if it will, how to make the job of the attendance office a little easier.
Wadsworth Grizzlies. Opposing schools enjoy it when they host the Grizzlies because they know that they will make more money than usual at the gate since our community will travel to represent the red & white. The bigger the event, the more Grizzly fans in attendance. You can count on it,” says WHS Athletic Director Brad Musgrave. Community support is not just
limited to athletic events. High school musicals repeatedly have packed audience. Choir concerts also see strong attendance. Perhaps the peak event is the annual Fine Arts Festival, held at Wadsworth Middle School. No matter the season, no matter the sport or event, you can count on the loyal supporters of the Wadsworth Grizzlies to show up to athletic events and art performances in large numbers.
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Alexis Wyatt, 11, is being issued a tardy pass by Mrs. Wallet after being late.
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