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now for our community connection right here on K one and one do you trust?
And it's a kind of short on the days here for Bartinsville Public Schools.
We have a superintended druckmcaullie. How you doing, Good morning, tom
Thanks for having me and you're right. Yeah, Tomorrow Tomorrow is our kids
last day of school and teachers will be working on Friday and then they'll finish
up and we're going to end the week with graduation Friday night. So yeah,
it's here. It's been fast and furious, but we've had a really
good school year. So I'll just start off talking about graduation. Yes,
do that, because everybody's got the family coming in. Sure, that's exactly
right. Yeah, So we're going seven o'clock Friday night at Custer Stadium.
We'll have graduation and it'll last less than an hour and a half. For
those that maybe have not been or maybe fearful of a real long speaker,
that's not the way we're in graduation. So we encourage everybody to come out.
We do have a scheduled at seven, but just for people to be
aware, hopefully the weather will allow us to have it at that time.
But uh, if there is some uh you know, if we do have
some inclement weather, we could delay that that ceremony. So we'll let people
know obviously, but our plan is to have it at seven, but it's
possible we couldn't lay it to eight or nine o'clock, just depending on the
weather. But we yeah, we look forward to Friday night, uh,
and and celebrating our kids. It's really a lot of fun. It's just
a beautiful setting at our stadium that time of year, and so it's going
to be a great event. You know, this group of seniors, this
class, they were eighth graders when COVID hit. You know, they were
in the eighth grade, so they were in their last year of middle school
when when that's right, we all remember that time right before spring break.
Uh and you know for school folks, that's when the you know, the
governor shut schools down across the state, really across the country. But uh,
and so these kiddos, you know, they didn't have their normal end
of their eighth grade year, you know, when they transitioned middle school,
and and so it was really neat this week they go back and visit their
elementary schools and uh, they also go back and they walk through the middle
schools this week. We can get to have that experience. So I'm really
glad they're I'm just really glad. The world's in a better place and we're
having just a normal end of the school year and and it's going to be
a lot of fun. So encourage people to uh, people to come out
and uh. But you know, so we're in the just finishing up those
end of the year things right now. Our uh, you know, our
spring activities have all concluded. Uh. You know, we've got our special
Olympics kids took off this morning, headed down to still Water. We got
a large group of kiddos going down there and sponsors and they've really done a
nice job. You know. We host that grand that grand area event at
the high school and we're glad to offer that here and those kids will have
a great experience. Uh. But on our our spring activity side, a
couple of things. You know, we had our typical great uh uh finishes
and lots of different spring things. You know, our girls tennis team won
the academic state championship. They had a four point zero team great point average,
which is obviously pretty strong. Our complete boys, our boys and girls
teams all qualified for the state meet, and you know, our slow pitch
softball team they qualify for state got to play down. It was really fun.
They played down at the same venue where the Women's College World Series is
and so I'd never been there. It was really neat, really proud of
our kids to have that experience. I mean, that's something that's once in
a lifetime. Well hopefully it won't be once in a lifetime for young girls.
Hopefully we'll go back. But I'm glad they got to do that.
I know. I was really proud to see them out there on the field.
Was really a lot of fun. Uh. Of course, our track
teams just finished up and something that I think is really pretty amazing that I
haven't heard a lot of folks talking about. You know, we had a
brother and sister and win a state championship on the same day in track,
and that I mean, I don't know if that's ever happened. It can't
be very common. You know Gentry Turner, who a lot of people are
familiar with. Gentry she's our star distance runner and she is she won the
state championship in the two mile on Friday, which is she's a senior.
Is probably not a big surprise that she won it. You know, she
just signed with Oklahoma State to run there, so she was probably the favorite
going in and really proud of Gentry worked really hard to do that. But
her little brother, Wesley is a freshman and he he won the pole vault
state championship and he ya, which is you know, it's really rare,
and they did on the same day, which is really cool. So we're
talking, you know, six a I think he jumped fifteen feet six inches,
you know, at any level, but especially for a boy that's a
freshman to win a state championship athletically, there's a big difference between boys when
you're fourteen, fifteen or eighteen and nineteen year old. So that was just
really neat Wesley and Gentry and so really great family too. I mean mom
teaches Melissa at the he's English teacher at the high school, and dad helps
helps coach for the track. But it was really fine. So brother and
sister won a state championship. I thought was pretty was pretty cool and freshman,
yeah, exactly, senior freshman. Yeah, I was really really a
neat neat deal. You know, golfers. We had one boy and one
girl finished. But you know I had a freshman boy, Jay wasass Miller,
who's a I've known him since before he was born, and he,
you know, he finished that ninth at the state at the Golf State Golf
Tournament, and really really proud of him. You know, I went down
to watching him play at the conference meet, and you know, at this
level, you're playing with high level players. I know he was playing with
the group at conference. I know, with a young man that was going
that's going to Seaton Hall and the other one's going to Roberts University, and
then there's Jay and Jay he just plays right with him. And to finish
ninth at the state's really impressive. We've got a really strong group of athletes
coming up underneath him that that will help fill up that that team. I
know they'll be really competitive at the state level. Well, that group's really
going to be competitive at everything they do here for years to come. It's
gonna be a lot of fun, a lot of fun to watch. But
anyway, it was a lot of fun having those kids have those experiences.
End of the year spring stuff. I hope everyone was able to get out
and see our spring show that I was put on LST at the beginning of
the month too. That was really fun. It was those kids do a
great job. I know your daughter's involved with that, but really really enjoy
Yes, that's right, Yeah we went. Remember I went Sunday afternoon actually,
so I guess that was the third showing and it was still packed.
It was really really really a lot of fun. And I guess I should
mention too, Tom, I should have started with this too, but just
with the sort of thank everybody with the with the with the weather that came
through. Uh. You know, obviously our our prayers go out to our
friends over at Burns Doll. But uh boy, did we were we was
we fortunate? We really are schools. I know I get to being asked
often about what kind of damage at our schools, and we really, uh,
very very minor. We had we had power over Wilson for a couple
of days and which led to some internet issues over there. You know,
Wilson Elementary missed a couple of days of school. Our district we had to
miss a day. Uh, but you know that's minor when you start thinking
about yeah, you see just the devastation over it over at Barnes doll and
help what could have been? You know, And I'm I know the way
that was tracking. I mean, I'm just thinking about it up, no
kidding, you know, you think about that path and the pathfinder, and
you know we've got our brand new act facility. We just finished with these
world class greenhouses. I mean, so anyway, thank the Good Lord for
helping us get through that. But anyway, I appreciate everyone's support with that,
helping us get through those challenges that you just face sometimes at Oklahoma one
mentioned a couple of It seems like every time I'm on here, I'm talking
about donations that have come to the district. So a couple that I want
to mention this week CP KIM they donated ten two hundred dollars to our aviation
program. They did that check presentation on Monday, so really thank them for
their support. And then Phillip sixty six at our school board meeting on Monday,
they're donating twenty thousand dollars for safety, which the district is going to
use for our school resource officers for training. We you know, as everyone
knows, we have a school resource officer at every school building full time.
We planned for this upcoming school year we'll have two at Marlsville High School,
so we have a total of ten officers in the district that we really appreciate
Phillip sixty six and that's one of their core values of safety and appreciate their
willing to willingness to help support that too. And then on a bore mini
coming up as well, we've spotlight a lot of things, a lot of
things I just talked about with our activities this this Phillip sixty sixth donation.
And then over at Richard Kine Elementary our fifth grade leadership students with Principal Cross,
It's going to bring those fifth graders over and talk about some of the
things they've been doing leadership wise, which is really a lot of fun listening
to the kids talking about their experience. And then also hit on finish up.
As we finished up the year two, our our Advanced Placement testing that
we've completed, we had almost four hundred kids, actually three hundred and ninety
eight kids taken AP test and so which is a really testament to getting our
kids prepared for that next step. Kids that are on that college bound track
as well. So and as we do prepare for next year, you know,
I run the numbers often on our student enrollment, and we're up.
We're up today we have three hundred and three hundred and eleven more students than
we did five years ago. So so we've we've prepared for that facility wise,
our Wayside facility, we are moving into that new edition right now,
and then they're gonna be renovating some of the spaces that we're going to be
moving out of here, but we'll be in that facility in August. Last
week we approved the guaranteed maximum price for basically the same project over at Ranch
Heights Elementary, So we're adding spaces at those two schools. And then the
summer, not this summer, but next summer, once we get the Ranch
Heights project complete, we will do some redistricting to move some Wayside students over
to Ranch Heights because they have the capacity for them. So and then I've
just mentioned brief I talked about the act facility in the storm, but we
were safe there too. We will have an event when the school starts.
Were kind of shooting for September fifteenth, having an open house, but really
excited for people to see that we are legislators were able to get in a
few weeks ago they were and yeah, it's something I know. They shared
with us that our greenhouses, for example, that they were the largest ones
in the state of Oklahoma. So really, really thankful that our community supported
that to give these opportunities for our kids. Very good, my goodness.
So we'll see everybody Friday night. Graduation, all right, graduation, orderly
walk, orderly running. Yeah, yeah, that's exactly right. Yeah,
Friday Friday at seven o'clock. I think we open the gates at six and
then we'll spread the word if we need to make any adjustments at that time.
We're planning on Friday, seven o'clock, Custer Stadium. I hope everyone
will attend, all right, Chuck McCauley, thank you for being with us.
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