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Kirkwood High School Senior Earns Girl Scout Gold Award
January 31, 2012
Kirkwood High School (KHS) senior Rachel Kibby has earned her Girl Scout Gold Award, which is the highest achievement within the Girl Scouts of the USA. Only 5.4% of eligible Girl Scouts successfully earn the Gold Award. A Gold Award recipient must plan and implement an individual “Take Action Project” that reaches beyond the Girl Scout organization and provide a sustainable, lasting benefit to the applicants larger community.
Kibby’s Take Action Project involved being the founding member of the Global Friends Club that was launched at KHS in August 2011. The original mission was to provide a welcoming and embracing club for international exchange students at KHS. It has since expanded to include all global students, many whom were involved in the school’s English as a Second Language program. The club meets regularly to socialize and exchange information about different cultures. The club has helped students overcome biases and prejudice by providing a place where American and international students form personal relationships with one another through club activities, sharing conversations, games, dinner outings and sports.
KSD Middle School Students Develop Product Now in Local Schnucks Stores
January 27, 2012
A group of Kirkwood School District (KSD) middle school students have developed a food safety tips bag that can now be found in the produce section at the Schnucks in Des Peres, MO. The group, also known as the Tie Dye Turtles Robotics team, is coached by parent Debbie Pitz and includes North Kirkwood Middle School (NKMS) eighth graders Jenna Heaton, Katie Pitz and Jessie Sanford, NKMS sixth graders Meagan Biesiadecki and Emily Pitz and Nipher Middle School sixth grader Caroline Bartels. The team is sponsored by the Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri troops 3179 and 1386.
STL Firefighters Sue Kirkwood, Lindbergh, Webster Groves and St. Louis Schools
January 24, 2012
Excerpt from Stltoday.com:
Members of the St. Louis Fire Department filed a lawsuit today (Tuesday, Jan. 24) against four area school districts over their failure to allow students in unaccredited school districts to transfer to better schools without paying tuition. To read the entire article, click HERE.
The public statement by the Kirkwood School District is as follows: The Kirkwood School District is waiting for guidance from the courts regarding non-resident students seeking transfer from unaccredited schools. We understand that this involves complex legal issues that we hope are resolved in the court system so that KSD can proceed appropriately.
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