The Beloit Memorial High School jazz band recently performed at the Bob Kames Jazz Festival held at South Milwaukee High School.
BMHS Jazz Band too top honors, scoring 298 out of 300 points awarding them a $1,000 grant and the opportunity to perform with Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band. Additionally, jazz band member Kevin LeBaron took home a $500 grant from the competition being named outstanding soloist.
450 students from 21 WELS Lutheran high schools sing the National Anthem for the Arizona Diamondbacks during Opening Week 2010 (Pittsburg Pirates vs. AZ DiamondBacks, April 10, 2010).
Additionally, 40 of these kids are from Wisconsin Lutheran High School.
Thanks to Jeff Scheibe for sending us this story/link!
The head of the state's Department of Public Instruction says last year's rate was about 36 percent, this year's rate is nearly 40%. DPI Superintendent Tony Evers says the increase is among the highest he's ever seen.
A Rock County Court case is raising a question that could have statewide implications: Should insurance carriers be required to provide maternity coverage to surrogate mothers?
The former treasurer of a youth football program in Sauk Prairie says that lost receipts would prove that she didn't steal the $60,000 missing from the organization.
She said she'd often write large checks to herself for cash.
"I did it for convenience sake, for me," Weinke said. "I’d take big chunks of money out if I had to go to several places."
Yep, a teacher in my hometown or Oregon, WI is on "administrative leave" after allegedly making a threat involving the use of a weapon during a phone conversation while at work. Several teachers felt targeted by the threat. No other details are being made public.
Not the kind of hometown news I like to find out about....
“I mean, Facebook is — anybody can get on it. It isn’t that tough. … These kids have to understand that within social networking, that there is no real privacy out there. And no. 2 is that here they are — every one of these kids had signed a co-curricular code of conduct.”
Insert your own comment here about:
Kids shouldn't drink underage
Kids shouldn't put pictures of themselves doing illegal activities on Facebook / the internet
Kids should get 2nd chances, especially if they participate in school activities
Schools have no business monitoring what happens on Facebook, et al.
Students at Ben Franklin Jr. High in Stevens Point are upset that school district provided laptops block social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, chat rooms, et al.
One student was quoted as saying ""I think that we should at least be able to use stuff like chat rooms. You can't even look up music,"
**Opinion: If the kids are getting freebie computers from the school, they have no room to complain that they cannot be used for anything other than school work.
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