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Poll: Kitsap Sun female athlete of the decade, 2010-19
Nearly every week during the past school year the Kitsap Sun has asked coaches to nominate their top athletes across each season's sport, and then we let you decide our Kitsap Sun Athlete of the Week. With the year ending, we've decided to keep the interest in highlighting Kitsap sports going in the same manner, with a new series of polls coming to start the summer. ...
Mercer Island’s Teenage Delinquent School
From 1905-54, the Seattle School District ran a “teenage delinquent school for boys,” located on the property where Luther Burbank is now. Known as Mercer Island’s Boys Parental School, the school hosted up to around 140 boys, the majority of which were first and second time offenders coming from unstable households in the city.
Letter to the editor: Applause for Edmonds-Woodway players
After reading about the school district’s terrible plans to cut funding for the Arts, I decided to attend Midsummer Night’s Dream 1999 by the Edmonds Woodway High School Players. It was the most heartfelt drama experience I have ever had. When I arrived on Sunday afternoon, the theater...
Reader view: Save Scriber Lake High School
As a first-year teacher at Meadowdale High School in 1997, a veteran teacher gave me advice a few days before classes started. “There will be five or so kids in each class who will fail,” she told me. “Don’t worry about them. Focus on the ones who want to succeed.” After spending six years at Meadowdale, I made the move to Scriber Lake High School, Edmonds’ small (150 students) alternative high school, where I have spent the majority of my 28-year career teaching those “five or so” kids. In that time, I’ve never met a kid who didn’t want to succeed. Not one. I’ve only met kids who have lost faith in themselves due to very difficult circumstances and who need a place to figure things out where they feel seen, heard and valued.
Edmonds School District third graders participate in Sno-Isle Libraries program
Third graders from 17 schools in the Edmonds School District were among the estimated 5,300 students who participated in the Sno-Isle Libraries Third Graders Read Together program this year. According to a Sno-Isle news release, if you love reading, your passion for books probably began by the time you were...
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