Daily Announcement February 17, 2023

Friday

February 17, 2023



  • Spring sports registration is now open! Please use this link to view more information and to register. In addition, to learn more about spring sports join us during our spring sports night on 3/15/23 at 6 PM in the high school gymnasium.


Juniors! There are a number of in-person and virtual college fairs coming up. Hartford, CT March 30th-31st, Virtual Learning Differences Fair 2/23, Virtual College Fair through 5/31/23

Check out the Junior Life After ARHS Google Classroom
The online course registration is open as of Wednesday, Feb 15 at 10 a.m. Current 9-11 grade students can now select their course requests for School Year 23-24.

Follow the link to everything you need to select the right courses for you.


Ruby Bridges was born on September 8, 1954, Bridges was the oldest of five children of Lucille and Abon Bridges. Ruby Bridges was six when she became the first African American child to integrate a white Southern elementary school. On November 14, 1960, she was escorted to class by her mother and U.S. marshals due to violent racist mobs. Bridges' brave act was a milestone in the civil rights movement. Bridges would be the only African American student to attend the William Frantz School, near her home, and the first Black child to attend an all-white elementary school in the South. Only one teacher, Barbara Henry, agreed to teach Bridges. She was from Boston and a new teacher at the school. "Mrs. Henry," as Bridges would call her even as an adult, greeted her with open arms. She spent her entire day, every day, in Mrs. Henry's classroom, not allowed to go to the cafeteria or out to recess to be with other students in the school. The federal marshals walked her down the hall when she had to go to the restroom. Bridges finished grade school and graduated from the New Orleans integrated Francis T. Nicholls High School. She then studied travel and tourism at the Kansas City business school and worked as a world travel agent for American Express. In 1963, painter Norman Rockwell recreated Bridges' monumental first day at school in the painting, “The Problem We All Live With.” The image of this small Black girl being escorted to school by four large white men graced the cover of Look magazine on January 14, 1964. The Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, now owns the painting as part of its permanent collection. In 2011, the museum loaned the work to be displayed in the West Wing of the White House for four months upon the request of President Barack Obama.
Juniors! We'll move from Naviance to Scoir, and we anticipate opening up individual Life After ARHS meetings when we return from Winter Break. Juniors will be required to complete a survey and have parents/guardians in attendance (virtually or in person). Explore 2024 Life After ARHS Classroom NOW!

Historically Black Colleges and Universities? Check out the Martin Luther King Jr. Family Services annual Black College Tour. 4/16-4/21 plus the Mid-Atlantic College Tour and a cultural experience day at the National Museum of African-American History and Culture. The cost is $800.00. 

Non-ARPS event.

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