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“It’s pretty relaxed right now. We are watching movies in some of my classes. We have finals coming up, but until then it has been pretty relaxed.”
Gabe Hayward,
– 10th grade
Snohomish gets two Marysville principals
Two new principals in the Snohomish School District are leaving posts in Marysville.
Heidi Rothgeb, principal at Cascade Elementary, has been named principal at Central Primary Center, a kindergarten through second-grade campus.
Craig Church, principal at Allen Creek Elementary, takes the same position at Emerson Intermediate Center, a third through sixth-grade campus.
Rothgeb and Church will know another elementary school principal in the Snohomish district. Paula Jones, former principal at Liberty Elementary in Marysville, is principal at Seattle Hill Elementary.
More enroll in online classes in Everett
Ninety-five Everett School District students are taking 115 online classes this summer.
Many are enrolling to catch up on credits, said Terry Edwards, the district’s director of curriculum and assessment.
For two years, Everett has offered the classes over the Internet. Summer online enrollment increased by about 30 percent from a year ago.
Popular classes include Washington state history, geometry, freshmen and sophomore English, biology and algebra.
About 85 percent of students succeed in earning credits, Edwards said.
“We are trying to get a real high completion rate and not just a high sign-up rate,” Edwards said.
Four veterans get their high school diplomas
Marysville-Pilchuck High School celebrated its long awaited commencement Thursday, but another diploma presentation three days earlier brought immense satisfaction to four veterans and their families.
The Marysville area veterans are among thousands of Americans who left high school early to serve their country in the armed forces in the 1940s and 1950s. In recent years, the Legislature passed a bill that allows Washington school districts to issue diplomas to World War II and Korean War veterans.
Several area districts have adopted policies under the law dubbed “Operation Recognition.” Marysville did so this spring at the urging of Arlington School Board member Jim Weiss, whose father is a Korean War veteran.
Principal Tracy VanWinkle presented each veteran with his diploma at a Marysville School Board meeting July 6.
Receiving their diplomas were Tommy Caldwell, who served in the Navy from April of 1951 to November of 1954; Robert Oliphant, Navy, April of 1945 to July 1946; Samuel Palombo, Navy, October of 1950 to July of 1954 and Donald Weiss, Sr., Marines, June of 1954 to June of 1962.
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