Winter Sports Sign ups are today after school.  10/31. Any student that wants to play a winter sport must attend.  See your coach for more details.

Wrestling
Basketball
Indoor Track
Cheerleading
Dance
Gymnastics
Hockey

The following Freshman Academy students have been chosen as students of the month for October:

Red Team:

Marisa Hall
Bryan Magee

Blue Team

Valerie Tarr
Dillon Slattery

Yellow Team:

Marisa Monroy
Michael Armenio


              They were chosen by their teachers for their hard work.  Please congratulate them.

               High School Attendance, Graduation, Completion, & Dropout Statistics

Five out of every 100 young adults enrolled in high school in October 1999 left school before October 2000 without successfully completing a high school program. The percentage of young adults who left school each year without successfully completing a high school program decreased from 1972 through 1987. Despite year-to-year fluctuations, the percentage of students dropping out of school each year has stayed relatively unchanged since 1987.

• In 2000, young adults living in families with incomes in the lowest 20 percent of all family incomes were six times as likely as their peers from families in the top 20 percent of the income distribution to drop out of high school.
• In 2000, the National Center for Education Statistics reported that 64.1 percent of all Hispanic 18- through 24-year-olds had completed secondary schooling. This compares with 91.8 percent of White, 83.7 percent of Black, and 94.6 percent of Asian young adults.
  Youth who drop out are more likely to experience negative outcomes such as unemployment, underemployment, or incarceration.

• High school dropouts are 72 percent more likely to be unemployed as compared to high school graduates (U.S. Department of Labor, 2003).
• Nearly 80 percent of individuals in prison do not have a high school diploma (Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 1995).
• According to the National Longitudinal Transition Study of special education students, the arrest rates of youth with disabilities who dropped out were significantly higher than those who had graduated (Wagner et al., 1991).
• A survey by the Department of Justice in the early 1990s estimated that a black male born in 1991 stood a 28 percent chance of going to prison; an update in 2003 put the odds at 33 percent.

Additionally, the costs associated with the incidence of dropout for society are immense.

• Approximately 47 percent of high school dropouts are employed compared to 64 percent of high school graduates not in college (National Center for Education Statistics, 1995).
• Students who graduate from high school earn an average of $9,245 more money per year than students who do not complete school (Employment Policy Foundation, 2001).
• The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the 2001 unemployment rate for adults over 25 without a high school diploma was 7.2 percent. That figure dropped to 4.2 percent for high school graduates without any college and to 2.3 percent for those with a bachelor's degree or higher.

Why do students drop out?

• The strongest predictors that a student is likely to drop out are family characteristics such as: socioeconomic status, family structure, family stress (e.g., death, divorce, family moves), and the mother's age. Students who come from low-income families, are the children of single, young, unemployed mothers, or who have experienced high degrees of family stress are more likely than other students to drop out of school. Of those characteristics, low socioeconomic status has been shown to bear the strongest relationship to students' tendency to drop out.
• The tendency for students to drop out is also associated with their school experiences. According to the U.S. Department of Education, students drop out of school for the following reasons: Dislike of school; low academic achievement; retention at grade level; a sense that teachers and administrators do not care about students; and inability to feel comfortable in a large, depersonalized school setting (1999)

FRESHMAN ACADEMY BULLYING PRESENTATION:

On Thursday October 25th and Friday October 26th, the Freshman Academy will attend a bullying presentation backstage.  Each student will receive a card with information on who to contact if they feel they are being bullied.  The students will come to the backstage area from their health classes. 

HOMEWORK CLUB ON 10/23:

12 Students stayed after school and completed assignments.  Congradulations and lets get more for next Tuesday.

FRESHMAN ACADEMY:

Grades Close November 9th.  Please get all your work done.  Stay after or attend the "Homework Club" on Tuesdays in room 218 from 2:10-3:00.  Our Freshman Academy Teachers will all help you succeed if you show the effort!!!!

Reminder:  The Homework Club starts Tuesday in room 218 from 2:10-3:00.

Have a good weekend.

The freshman academy is starting a homework club on Tuesday 10/23 in room 218 from 2:10-3:00 for any student that wants to stay after and complete school work. You will have to provide your own ride home. Thank you and I hope you can make it.

Science Discovery Van Coming To Plymouth South Oct 18th and 19th- Mrs. Potter's, Mr. Dorr's, and Mrs. O'Brien's science classes will all take part.  All students see their teachers for more details.

Hello Mentors!

Welcome to the blog! We have been hearing about the great things you are all doing in your freshman classrooms, and now, we want you to share those experiences with each other. This blog is your home to spread ideas, give feedback, and ask for suggestions from your peers. You are all doing great things on your own, but if we all work together, we can make this program even better. We are looking forward to hearing about all that is going on out there!

Assistant Principal quote of the day for the Freshman Academy:

 

"Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”

The Freshman Academy will be starting a new program called "The Homework Club" on Tuesday October 23rd from 2:10-3:00, in room 218. Any student that needs extra help may attend. More details to follow.

FRESHMAN COOKOUT

On Thursday October 11th at 3:00 the Freshman Academy will be having a cookout on the Freshman Football/Soccer Fields (the top fields). Our freshman football team and freshman girls soccer team play at 3:30. All Plymouth South Freshman are welcome to attend and enjoy the game. I will start cooking as the game is playing and will keep it going until the end of the game. Please come out and enjoy this event. I look forward to meeting all of you.

Marc Loranger

Assistant Principal

Plymouth South High School

The Freshman Academy will be starting a new program called "The Homework Club" on Tuesday October 23rd from 2:10-3:00, in room 218.  Any student that needs extra help may attend.  More details to follow.

FRESHMAN COOKOUT

 

On Thursday  October 11th at 3:00 the Freshman Academy will be having a cookout on the Freshman Football/Soccer Fields (the top fields).  Our freshman football team will be playing Sandwich home at 3:30.  All Plymouth South Freshman are welcome to attend and enjoy the game.  I will start cooking as the game is playing and will keep it going until the end of the game.  Please come out and enjoy this event.  I look forward to meeting all of you.

 

 

 

Marc Loranger

Assistant Principal

Plymouth South High School