Marion High School

Patriot families. Due to the significant winter weather expected tonight, the Marion School District will pivot to a virtual learning day on Thursday, February 11. Schools will be contacting families with additional information about what this means for your student. Thank you, keep warm, and stay safe!

Sign up for parent-teacher conferences: Marion School District will hold parent-teacher conferences the week of Monday, February 22 through Friday, February 26. Conference times will be available on a first-come, first-served basis on each day of the week at each campus. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, all conferences will be held virtually or over the phone. No in-person conferences will be held. To sign up for your child's parent-teacher conference, please go to the Marion School District website (www.msd3.org).

2/9/21 Marion School District received notification of the following COVID-19 positive cases today: 1 student Close contacts have been notified and are following quarantine guidelines set forth by the Arkansas Department of Health. For the privacy of all students and staff, Marion School District will not be sharing any personal information publicly. We remain firmly committed to providing a safe environment and will follow the guidance provided by the Arkansas Department of Health, CDC, and the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education. -- Kelly Fogleman, BSN, RN, NCSN School Health Coordinator 870-739-5140 (office) kfogleman@msd3.org

2/8/21 Marion School District received notification of the following COVID-19 positive cases today: 5 students 1 staff member Close contacts have been notified and are following quarantine guidelines set forth by the Arkansas Department of Health. For the privacy of all students and staff, Marion School District will not be sharing any personal information publicly. We remain firmly committed to providing a safe environment and will follow the guidance provided by the Arkansas Department of Health, CDC, and the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education. -- Kelly Fogleman, BSN, RN, NCSN School Health Coordinator 870-739-5140 (office) kfogleman@msd3.org

MSD teachers and staff took a big step forward in the pandemic fight during a district-wide vaccination clinic Friday. A big thank-you to all who made the event possible, including local legislators, Laura Charlton and Marion Family Pharmacy, Dr. Susan Jones and the East Arkansas Family Health Center, and especially our district health coordinator Kelly Fogleman and our fine staff of school nurses! Check the link to read more. https://www.msd3.org/article/396509?org=msd

John Lewis fought for equality during the civil rights movement, marching with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., against oppression and risking his life for justice. Through grit and determination, he went from sitting on bus seats as an act of civil disobedience during the Freedom Rides to sitting in the halls of Congress as a champion for civil liberties. Lewis’s most memorable act of “good trouble” occurred on March 7, 1965, when he led a group of 600 people across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on what would be known as “Bloody Sunday.” Lewis, who was then only 25 years old, marched across the bridge in the fight for equal voting rights for Black people. Lewis eventually became a congressman from Georgia in 1987, serving until his death from pancreatic cancer at the age of 80 on July 17, 2020. During his time in Congress he continued his work for civil rights and encouraged young people do the hard work necessary to change the country by getting into “good trouble.”

Weekly COVID update 2/1-2/5 Staff reported positive for COVID-19 this week: 3 Staff quarantined due to exposure to COVID-19 this week: 9 Students reported positive for COVID-19 this week: 9 Students quarantined due to exposure to COVID-19 this week: 64 Total staff positive for COVID-19 since 7/24/20: 93 Total staff quarantined due to exposure since 7/24/20: 275 Total students positive for COVID-19 since 7/15/20: 238 Total students quarantined due to exposure since 7/15/20: 2421 -- Kelly Fogleman, BSN, RN, NCSN School Health Coordinator 870-739-5140 (office) kfogleman@msd3.org

Misty Danielle Copeland is an American ballet dancer for American Ballet Theatre, one of the three leading classical ballet companies in the United States. On June 30, 2015, Copeland became the first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer in ABT's 75-year history.

2/4/21 Marion School District received notification of the following COVID-19 positive cases today: 3 students 1 staff member Close contacts have been notified and are following quarantine guidelines set forth by the Arkansas Department of Health. For the privacy of all students and staff, Marion School District will not be sharing any personal information publicly. We remain firmly committed to providing a safe environment and will follow the guidance provided by the Arkansas Department of Health, CDC, and the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education. Kelly Fogleman, BSN, RN, NCSN School Health Coordinator 870-739-5140 (office) kfogleman@msd3.org

Before her 30th birthday, Mae C. Jemison had received two undergraduate degrees and a medical degree, served two years as a Peace Corps medical officer in West Africa, and was selected to join the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's astronaut training program. Her eight-day space flight aboard the space shuttle Endeavour in 1992 established Jemison as the United States' first female African-American space traveler.

2/3/21 Marion School District received notification of the following COVID-19 positive cases today: 1 student Close contacts have been notified and are following quarantine guidelines set forth by the Arkansas Department of Health. For the privacy of all students and staff, Marion School District will not be sharing any personal information publicly. We remain firmly committed to providing a safe environment and will follow the guidance provided by the Arkansas Department of Health, CDC, and the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education. -- Kelly Fogleman, BSN, RN, NCSN School Health Coordinator 870-739-5140 (office) kfogleman@msd3.org

2/2/21 Marion School District received notification of the following COVID-19 positive cases today: 1 student Close contacts have been notified and are following quarantine guidelines set forth by the Arkansas Department of Health. For the privacy of all students and staff, Marion School District will not be sharing any personal information publicly. We remain firmly committed to providing a safe environment and will follow the guidance provided by the Arkansas Department of Health, CDC, and the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education. -- Kelly Fogleman, BSN, RN, NCSN School Health Coordinator 870-739-5140 (office) kfogleman@msd3.org

The skies had never seen a pilot like Bessie Coleman before. She was the first African-American woman to obtain an international pilot’s license, soaring to new heights that Black people in the United States had never reached before. But as a Black woman in the 1920s, she faced many obstacles because of her race and gender. She would say that “the air is the only place free from prejudice.” Known as “Queen Bess” and “Brave Bessie,” she would do loops, barrel rolls, and figure eights in her plane—she’d even walk on the wings and parachute out. She also used her fame to fight racism and segregation, refusing to fly in shows that forced Black and white spectators to enter through separate gates. In 1923, Coleman survived a bad accident that left her with a broken leg and ribs. But soon she recovered and started doing stunts at air shows again. Her goal was to open a school for Black pilots, but she never completed that dream. On April 30, 1926, she died in another plane accident caused by a loose wrench lodging into the engine’s controls. But her courageous feats of flight have inspired a fleet of Black women pilots who came after her and journeyed to the sky.

2/1/21 Marion School District received notification of the following COVID-19 positive cases today: 4 students 2 staff members Close contacts have been notified and are following quarantine guidelines set forth by the Arkansas Department of Health. For the privacy of all students and staff, Marion School District will not be sharing any personal information publicly. We remain firmly committed to providing a safe environment and will follow the guidance provided by the Arkansas Department of Health, CDC, and the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education. -- Kelly Fogleman, BSN, RN, NCSN School Health Coordinator 870-739-5140 (office) kfogleman@msd3.org

#schoolchoice #MSDtherightchoice #onepatriotonecommunity School Choice is for students who currently do not live in the Marion School District, but would like to attend the Marion School District in the 2021-2022 school year.

#schoolchoice #MSDtherightchoice #onepatriotonecommunity School Choice is for students who currently do not live in the Marion School District, but would like to attend the Marion School District in the 2021-2022 school year.

Weekly COVID update 1/25-1/29 Staff reported positive for COVID-19 this week: 5 Staff quarantined due to exposure to COVID-19 this week: 15 Students reported positive for COVID-19 this week: 14 Students quarantined due to exposure to COVID-19 this week: 158 Total staff positive for COVID-19 since 7/24/20: 90 Total staff quarantined due to exposure since 7/24/20: 266 Total students positive for COVID-19 since 7/15/20: 229 Total students quarantined due to exposure since 7/15/20: 2357 -- Kelly Fogleman, BSN, RN, NCSN School Health Coordinator 870-739-5140 (office) kfogleman@msd3.org

#schoolchoice #MSDtherightchoice #onepatriotonecommunity School Choice is for students who currently do not live in the Marion School District, but would like to attend the Marion School District in the 2021-2022 school year.

#schoolchoice #MSDtherightchoice #onepatriotonecommunity School Choice is for students who currently do not live in the Marion School District, but would like to attend the Marion School District in the 2021-2022 school year.

1/28/21 Marion School District received notification of the following COVID-19 positive cases today: 1 student Close contacts have been notified and are following quarantine guidelines set forth by the Arkansas Department of Health. For the privacy of all students and staff, Marion School District will not be sharing any personal information publicly. We remain firmly committed to providing a safe environment and will follow the guidance provided by the Arkansas Department of Health, CDC, and the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education. -- Kelly Fogleman, BSN, RN, NCSN School Health Coordinator 870-739-5140 (office) kfogleman@msd3.org