BRAHMA BULL-etin!
Sunday the 5th through Saturday the 11th
"May, more than any other month of the year, wants us to feel most alive." - Fennel Hudson
Greetings MacArthur Families, Students, and Friends,
It is a great day to be alive and be a BRAHMA! Shoutout to our Brahma Baseball team! They stormed back after losing game 1 of the bi-district playoffs and won games 2 and 3 vs South San High School. On to the AREA round. The boys play this Thursday and Friday vs Boerne Champion. More information regarding times to follow!
Three
That's it seniors, three weeks until the big day. Exactly three weeks. In all reality, it is only 13 days of classes/exams and two days of senior activities. I implore you to soak it all up! 13 days to reflect on 13 years of school! Kindergarten to 12th grade, what a ride! 🐮
Four
Four weeks underclassmen, 20 Days. Your final exams are the last week of school. Exam exemptions apply, make sure you are aware of the qualifications. The qualifications are included in the Semester Exam Exemption Information, Spring 2024 section below. It is imperative that you maximize your time and put yourself in a great position with credits for next year. If you need summer school, the flyer is farther along in this newsletter. Summer school this year is at Madison High School. Make sure you talk to your counselor or AP ASAP about your options and your needs.
AP Exams
This week we begin AP exams. The Advanced Placement exams are regulated by College Board. Please read the following, from our College, Career & Military Readiness Specialist, Mr. Robledo-Madera, regarding the exams. Also know that there is an exam schedule in the College, Career, & Military Readiness section of the newsletter, each exam that we host this week is also listed in the Week at a Glance.
AP exams are Monday, May 6th through Friday, May 17th. All exams will be in the A300 hallway.
If your exam BEGINS at 8:00 AM, plan on being in your test room at 7:30 AM. A regular start to the school day is 8:50 AM, your test day will be different! Plan accordingly.
There will be NO LATE arrivals to an AP exam. That is a College Board expectation that MacArthur HS must and will follow, no excuses.
- · Getting stopped by traffic is not an excuse.
- · Getting caught by the train at Wetmore is not an excuse.
- · If you ride the bus, you need to get a ride.
Once directions have begun in the exam room, no student will be allowed to enter the testing room, so be early.
If your exam BEGINS at 12:00 PM, plan on being in your test room at 11:30 AM. Plan on notifying your teacher at 11:20 PM that you are scheduled to test. They will check your name against the roster that will be emailed to them.
If you have an afternoon exam. The exam will start at the beginning of 4th period, but you need to be in the testing room BEFORE lunch starts. You need to plan accordingly, pack a lunch. Food will not be delivered to a testing room.
All that has been shared falls into the College Board guidelines for exam days. These are not NEISD or MacArthur rules.
Teacher Appreciation Week
Teacher appreciation week honors and celebrates our teachers for all of their efforts, commitment, and hard work. We are grateful for the endless hours they dedicate for our students and our Mac community. Please take a minute to thank our teachers, write them a note, bring them a treat. We couldn't do what we do daily without them!
Have another great week!
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Artist Spotlight 🎨🖌️
Joshua Fajardo | 12th | "Headspace"
VASE | State Bound Artwork
"My artwork 'headspace' is one that shows surrealism. Using only graphite, it uses value to show depth and interpretation. My inspiration really came from other surrealist artists like M.C. Esher. There isn't really any deep meaning. It's just a bunch of random objects thrown together that I thought would look visually pleasing. But again, it can be interpreted many ways. Which is what makes it so fascinating to me."
SUPER STAR STUDENTs of the Month | April '24
Bailey F, Senior and Hudson B, Senior
🤘🏽 The Week Ahead 🐮
Sunday | 05
Monday | 06
- US Government & Politics | 8:00 AM
- Art History | 12:00 PM
- Chemistry | 12:00 PM
Dance | Spring Show Rehearsal | Auditorium | 4:30 PM
Tuesday | 07
- Human Geography | 8:00 AM
- Microeconomics | 8:00 AM
- Seminar | 12:00 PM
- Statistics | 12:00 PM
Band | Drumline Auditions | Band Hall | 5:00 PM
Basketball | Girls Banquet | Alamo Cafe | 6:00 PM
Wednesday | 08
- English Literature & Composition | 8:00 AM
- Government & Politics | 12:00 PM
- Computer Science A | 12:00 PM
Thursday | 09
- Chinese Language & Culture | 8:00 AM
- Environmental Science | 8:00 AM
- Psychology | 12:00 PM
Senior Informational Meeting | Auditorium | 10:35 AM
PALS /ALE Partnership Day | Sr. Dining Hall | 2:40 PM
Dance | Spring Show Rehearsal | Auditorium | 4:30 PMChoir | Banquet | TBA | 6:00 PM
Track | Boys Banquet | Walk-Ons Bistro | 6:00 PM
Friday | 10
Band | TMF Festival | Brady Auditorium | All Day
AP Exam Week- European History | 8:00 AM
- United States History | 8:00 AM
- Macroeconomics | 12:00 PM
- Spanish Literature & Culture | 12:00 PM
Dance | Spring Show | Auditorium | 4:30 PM
Saturday | 11
Saturday School | Cafeteria | 8:00 AM
Booster | Golf Classic | Northern Hills GC | 10:00 AM
Aquatics | Swim/Dive Tryouts | Josh Davis Natatorium | 11:00 AM
👩🏽🦱 👨🏽🦱 PTSA 👩🏻👨🏻
👩🏽🎓 Everything Seniors 24 👨🏽🎓
Elementary School Senior Walks/Gatherings
Driscoll Middle School
I will post the Senior Walk flyers as I get them.
The schools that have TBD have not determined what day/time or both, yet.
- Camelot Elementary | May 24th | 7:40 AM
- Clear Spring Elementary | May 23 | 7:15 AM
- Dellview Elementary | May 16th | 8:00 AM
- East Terrell Hills Elementary | May 24th | 8:00 AM
- El Dorado Elementary | May 24th | 7:45 AM
- Longs Creek Elementary | May 24th | 7:30 AM
- Northern Hills Elementary | May 24th | 7:00 AM
- Oak Meadow Elementary | May 13th | 8:00 AM
- Olmos Elementary | May 17th | 7:45 AM
- Stahl Elementary | May 24th | 7:30 AM
- Steubing Ranch Elementary | May 30th | 8:00 AM
- Vineyard Ranch Elementary | May 23rd | 7:15 AM
- Walzem Elementary | May 23rd | 8:00 AM
- Wilshire Elementary | May 22nd | 7:30 AM
- Windcrest Elementary | May 30th | 7:45 AM
📊 School Based Services 📚
MacArthur Clinic | Health Services
Brahma News
Big Blue Library
College, Career & Military Readiness
MAC CCMR Linktree: https://linktr.ee/mac_ccmr
AP Exams Start May 6th!
- Schedule: https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/exam-administration-ordering-scores/exam-dates
- All exams will be in the A300 Hallway
- Exams start either at 8am or 12pm.
- 8am
- Not 8:50am like the beginning of the normal school day.
- Plan to get to the test room by 7:30am.
- Getting stopped by bad traffic or by the train on Wetmore will not be a valid excuse to test if students are late to their exam.
- Plan out a different route that avoids traffic or the train.
- Get a ride if you normally ride the bus.
- Once directions begin, no students will be allowed to enter test room so please arrive early.
- 12pm
- Students are responsible for notifying teachers at 11:20am that they are scheduled to test.
- Teachers will have rosters and will verify.
- All guidelines specified above are rules established per College Board.
- None of these guidelines are established by MacArthur HS or NEISD.
- We as a campus must follow these guidelines in order to continue offering AP Exams and Courses in the future.
- Lunch during AP Exams
- Lunch will not be provided and students may end up missing their Lunch Periods
- Please bring a lunch just in case your student misses their Lunch Period.
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NEISD Special Education Website
Please use the following link, https://bit.ly/neisdspedfe, to access our District's Transition Planning website. Students and families can access information to encompassing the after-high school Transition program, Special Olympics, family resources, and more.
Family Engagement
The Family Engagement Office at Mac, led by Mrs. Sabrina Lara, is responsible for creating and sustaining partnerships between the school, families and the community.
Office # (210) 356 - 7600
Email slara3@neisd.net
"The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself" - Gen. Douglas MacArthur
📣 Shout Outs 📣
Kaylen Lembcke | Superintendent's Award Winners— Spring 2024
Kaylen is a student-athlete at MacArthur High School. She recently organized a 4 on 4 co-ed volleyball tournament to raise funds for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Thanks to her efforts, they raised $4,500. Kaylen designed a website, created t-shirts for the event, and arranged activities at the game that included face painting, prize games and concessions. Kaylen also arranged for her fellow classmates and teammates to volunteer to help run the event. This was not just a MacArthur community specific event. Kaylen reached all around the city to bring attention to the issue of blood cancer that impacts so many. She is the epitome of a servant leader.
Culinary Seniors
These three seniors are some of the Culinary Captains that have manned and thrived a team that has served over 1000 at this year's homecoming dance, catered the NEISD School Board of Trustees meeting, have provided dessert for a principals' meeting and Board retirement event, and have catered one large scale event each month this school year.
In order from top to bottom/first to last:
- X'Zavier Johnson, Senior, exploring college and military options
- Victor Contreras, Senior, Attending St. Philip's next fall
- Deanthony Curry, Senior, Attending St. Philip's next fall
Madison Turner, Senior | JROTC
Madison was selected as the NEISD LET IV Cadet of the Year. She appeared before a selection panel, the topics included academics, uniform appearance, drill & ceremony, citizenship, and leadership. Madison was promoted to Cadet Colonel as the Cadet of the Year and awarded the distinctive Cadet of the year badge. She is now the highest-ranking Cadet in all of our NEISD School District.
Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA)
We had a wonderful week in sunny California at our International Career Development Conference. Our students fought hard and learned a lot about leadership and how to apply their knowledge towards their future endeavors. We were awarded a Gold Standard plaque for our work with our ALE department in our school store and have big plans for the future.
Representing MAC at internationals has been a dream come true. Thank you all for your support throughout this amazing year!
Ariana Lopez & Michael Murach | MABC
Congratulations to Ariana and Michael who were chosen as the MacArthur Athletic Booster Club (MABC) Leatherwood Scholarship recipients. Great job, great kids!
Softball | All District Distinctions
🐮 Go Brahmas!
Student Voice
One last meeting with Dr. Maika before summer. Thank you students for representing yourselves, your families and MacArthur to the fullest!
📸 The Week in Review 📸
Sunday 28
Monday 29
Tuesday 30
Wednesday 01
Thursday 02
National Letter of Intent | Signing Day
Open Mic Night
Baseball vs South San | Game 1 Playoffs
Friday 03
Baseball vs South San | Game 2 Playoffs
🏅 Winner
Saturday 04
Baseball vs South San | Game 3 Playoffs
🏅 Winner
Band Banquet
Tennis Banquet
Semester Exam Exemption Information, Spring 2024
Please find below information for Spring 2024 Exam Exemptions for NEISD. Just as in the Fall Semester, Extenuating Circumstances (Code X) will no longer count against a student when determining eligibility for exam exemptions. As a result of this change, there will be no appeals process.
ALL exemptions must be entered and processed through the student's Skyward account. There are no paper-based exemption forms. There are no system overrides.
What this means is that the only absences that count against exemptions are U (Unexcused), or E (Excused) absences. In addition to U and E absences, tardies (T) will count against exemptions just as they did last year.
Therefore, it is extremely important that accurate documentation is submitted to our Attendance Office in a timely manner so that absences may be coded accurately and reflected appropriately when the exam exemption window opens. Please review the hard deadlines below regarding the submission of doctors’ notes and other documentation for absences.
- In the event students have outstanding documentation that has not yet been turned in within the NEISD attendance guidelines of 48 hours, we have established a hard deadline of Friday, May 10th at 4:00pm for any absences that occurred BEFORE Friday, May 10th. Any documentation for previous absences turned in after the hard deadline of Friday, May 10th will not be processed until the exemption window closes on Wednesday, May 15th at 4:30pm.
- For any student absences ON May 10th , we will process those absences on the same day if documentation is turned in before 4:00pm to ensure that accurate attendance is updated before the exemption window opens the following day.
- Grades and attendance snapshot will be taken at 4:00pm on May 12th.
- The Exam Exemption window opens at 7:00am on Monday, May 13th and closes Wednesday, May 15th at 4:30pm.
Link to Exam Exemption FAQ
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17zR9l610crtmW7rRUsGbV9l3B2wDNs6dvI5LoNyWlUo/edit?usp=sharing
Mac Cluster Community
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🐮 Parent Info 🤘🏽
NEISD Online Ticketing Platform Change
The system that NEISD uses for our online athletic ticket sales is changing a bit, and the old app will be going away. Next week on February 28th the original Ticket Spicket App will be decommissioned. Hometown Ticketing has merged with Ticket Spicket, so this is part of the conversion. If you are an avid NEISD athletics supporter and regularly attend events, please make sure to download the "HomeTown Fan App" on iOS or Android.
You can also visit www.events.hometownticketing.com to search, purchase and manage all of your tickets and passes. There are helpful links and attachments to walk through the process.
As always, thank you for always supporting our athletes, coaches and the overall athletic program.
☎ District Info 💻
📅 Schedules 📆
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"Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be." - Gen. Douglas MacArthur
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Counseling & Student Support (L to R)
Mr. Robledo - Madera | College, Career, Military | (210) 356-7607 | aroble2@neisd.net
Ms. Fitzsimon | Lead | (210) 356 - 7702 | sfitz@nesid.net
Ms. Esparza | Mental Wellness Counselor | (210) 356 - 7634 | cespar1@neisd.net
Ms. Cook | ALL 9th Grade | (210) 676 - 7632 | kcook@neisd.net
Mrs. Ethridge | 10th - 12th A - L | (210) 356 - 7631 | lethri@neisd.net
Mrs. Ybarra | 10th - 12th Grade Magnets | (210) 356 - 7639 | lybarr2@neisd.net
Mrs. Rodriguez | 10th - 12th M - Z | (210) 676 -7671 | arodri33@neisd.net
Administration (Back - Front, Left - Right)
Mr. Moczygemba | AP 10-12 Dual Language, AVID & MacUP | (210) 356 - 7622 | dmoczy@neisd.net
Mrs. Smiley | AP 9th Graders | (210) 356 - 7631 | msmile@neisd.net
Mrs. Moran | Director ECHS & iCSI | (210) 356 - 7628 | smoran3@neisd.net
Mr. Hernandez | Principal | (210) 356 - 7600 | jherna20@neisd.net
Ms. Taylor | Curriculum AP | (210) 356 - 7628 | jtaylo5@neisd.net
Mr. Lozano | AP 10th - 12th Grade M - Z | (210) 256 - 7624 | elozan@neisd.net
Mr. Gloege <NEW> | AP 10th - 12th Grade A - L | (210) 356 - 7626 | cgloeg@neisd.net
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Proud Principal | Douglas MacArthur HS