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==Recent Events== |
==Recent Events== |
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After the 2004-05 school year, principal Pat Sullivan left the school, to be replaced by Catherine Matthews. This has brought mixed feelings from community members and students. Matthews has placed new restrictions on the student newspaper and toughened the attendance policy to mercilessly dole out "Saturday School" assignments. These saturday school assignments are quite frequently handed out by mistake. Matthews is currently very unpopular with students, and was publicly booed by hundreds of students early in the school year, at an assembly. |
After the 2004-05 school year, principal Pat Sullivan left the school, to be replaced by Catherine Matthews. This has brought mixed feelings from community members and students. Matthews has placed new restrictions on the student newspaper and toughened the attendance policy to mercilessly dole out "Saturday School" assignments. These saturday school assignments are quite frequently handed out by mistake. Matthews is currently very unpopular with students, and was publicly booed by hundreds of students early in the school year, at an assembly. |
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On March 6 of this year, shortly after classes let out at 2:00 PM, a trivial fight broke out between two hispanic girls on the southeast corner of 25th street and Colby Ave. The fight escalated and eventually involved several students, mostly hispanic, and several police officers. An 18 year old male, Rogelio Hernandez, allegedly pushed a female police officer to the ground while she was attempting to break up the fight. The police used pepper spray to quell the fight and arrested several students. The entire event was viewed by a large crown of students, who administrators claim were almost in a riot. Since the fight, there have been arguments over how exactly the fight transpired. Many students claim that Hernandez did not push the officer down. One student caught the event on video on a cell phone, but the video is of too low a grade to be of any real use. Many students and parents claim that the police used excessive force against the hispanic students, which allegedly would not have been used against white students. However, little weight has been given to the student accounts of the events. The primary sources of information have been the police reports. However, this is fundamentally flawed because the claim being asserted by so many is that the police showed a bias, and if that is true, then the police reports themselves are also very biased. |
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The fight has raised many issues regarding racial divisions at the high school, and many immigrant parents have banded together to help resolve these issues. They have met with several city and school officials, including Mayor Ray Stephanson. Tensions have been brweing between hispanic parents and administrators since last year, when about a dozen students filed complaints about racial harassment and discrimination. Despite the efforts of parents, however, attempts to encourage friendship amongst students of different races have been only mildy successfull. This has given rise to the idea that "You can change laws, but you can't change people's hearts." |
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==Notable alumni== |
==Notable alumni== |
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Revision as of 23:33, 21 May 2006
Everett High School is a secondary school located in Everett, Washington which educates grades 9 through 12. The school enrolls approximately 1,700 students annually, more than triple the state and district average. [1]
The school colors of Everett High School are blue and gold. The school mascot is Sammy the Seagull. As of 2005, the school principal is Catherine Matthews.
Geography
Everett High School is located on the northern edge of downtown Everett. It is bounded on the South by 25th St., by 24th St. to the North, by Hoyt Ave. to the West, and by Rockafeller Ave. to the East. Colby Ave. and Wetmore Ave. run north and south through the campus.
Layout
Everett High is unusual in that it has a partially open campus. With parent permission, 11th and 12th grade students may leave campus during their lunch breaks. It is one of few high schools in the state that retains an even selectively permeable boundary. This is done out of necessity; it would be very difficult for staff to keep students on campus, with two streets running through the campus, student parking on neighboring streets, and many dining attractions only yards away.
The school has seven buildings. On the western side of Colby are the main building, or the "A Building" to the South, the "Little Theater" to the Northwest, and the Science Building to the Northeast. Between the Colby Ave. and Wetmore Ave. are the "E Building," the "B Building," which is also called the Everett Civic Auditorium, and the "C Building," also known as the Commercial Building. The Auditorium houses ROTC classes, Band, Choir, a cafeteria, and an enormous auditorium. The "C Building" houses classes in foreign language, math, and some health classes. On the eastern side of Wetmore Ave. are the gymnasium and parking for staff and students. The student parking lot, more commonly called the Senior Lot, received much needed renovation and expansion prior to the 2005-06 school year. The Norm Lowry Gymnasium houses Richer Court, where basketball games are held.
Academics
In order to graduate, students must complete a scholarly paper, an autobiographical paper, and a senior project, then present the above to a panel of staff and community members. Everett High School offers Advanced Placement classes in science, English, math and history, including an extraordinarily difficult advanced placement biology class offered every other year.
Student Activities
Until the 2005-06 school year, the Everett High School student newspaper, the Kodak, operated with very little control by the staff, and with the title of "Student Forum." Principal Catherine Matthews has forced the paper to withdraw this title and submit to additional control. Student Editors Sara Eccleston and Claire Lueneburg have put on an enormous display of dismay. They have been featured in all sorts of local media, voicing their feelings that Matthews had not the right to do this. The school board has decided that Matthews did indeed have the right to place such constraints on the newspaper, and may convene in the future to decide whether that is an appropriate policy. There are currently two Kodaks, one being produced by the school, without the title of "Student Forum," and one being produced independently by the editors and a few other devotees.
Everett High School has one of the largest band programs in the area, with over 150 students. Teacher Gary Evans also runs an exceptionally large jazz orchestra, with over 50 students participating. The band plays at all home varsity football games, and many varsity home basketball games. The band is led by drum majors Sarah Koznek, Tom Dale, Ben Skubi, and Brian Tarr.
Everett feeds an unusually high number of students to the Running Start program. The program allows upperclassmen to take classes at Everett Community College for dual credit, free of charge. This is a very convenient arrangement for many students, because Everett Community College is only fourteen blocks to the North.
Sports
Everett has teams in Golf, Swimming, Wrestling, Basketball, Bowling, Track and Field, Soccer, Cross Country, Volleyball, and Football. For the first time in decades, the football team nearly went to compete at the state level in their 2005 season. The men's swim team also had a very successful season, with five athletes competing at the state level, as did the girls' soccer team after winning more games than they have won in over five years.
Recent Events
After the 2004-05 school year, principal Pat Sullivan left the school, to be replaced by Catherine Matthews. This has brought mixed feelings from community members and students. Matthews has placed new restrictions on the student newspaper and toughened the attendance policy to mercilessly dole out "Saturday School" assignments. These saturday school assignments are quite frequently handed out by mistake. Matthews is currently very unpopular with students, and was publicly booed by hundreds of students early in the school year, at an assembly.
Notable alumni
- Chris Chandler, NFL player [2]
- Henry M. Jackson, United States senator and presidential candidate.
- Dennis Erickson, Former Coach of the NFL Seattle Seahawks and the Oregon State Beavers Football Teams.