Greyhound News Bi-Weekly 10/1/21
HOMECOMING 2021
Watch for Fall Conference Sign Ups coming out early next week!
Homecoming Week 2021
This year's theme is "East Olympics." The schedule for the week is below. The dance Friday is weather permitting, we cannot move it inside so if there is inclement weather it will have to be canceled. If that happens we will send out a message via Infinite Campus and post it on our social media.
Congratulations to our Homecoming King and Queen Candidates! Coronation is on Friday and the court will make appearances at events during the week, including at the football game Friday.
Queen candidates: Stella Schutz, Rowan Lundell, Katie Higgins, Sofia Aronson, Selma Artang, Erin Christensen (who couldn't be in this photo as she was traveling with the soccer team)
King candidates: Mason Branstrator, Will Van Scoy, Will Hoeksema, Qasim Mujteba, Eli Kramer, Kai Hoffman
ATTENDANCE REMINDERS: Send a note, don't call.
Each day our office has hundreds of absences to process. We ask for your help in the following ways:
2. Be patient. There are often over 100 students coming through in the morning with notes or who need passes to leave. We have one attendance clerical and records won't be updated immediately. DO NOT CALL if you sent a note and don't see the attendance record change the same morning.
3. Give all the information we need in your note:
a. Student's full name
b. Student's grade
c. DATE of the absence
d. TIME of the absence if it wasn't a full day
e. Your name and relationship to the child (Remember only legal parents/guardians can send notes or call.)
f. REASON for the absence (Remember not all reasons equate to an excused absence. We appreciate the notes and calls, but oversleeping is still an unexcused absence.)
4. Excuses must be submitted to the office within 48 hours of the absence. Notes received after 48 hours are appreciated, but the absence will remain unexcused.
Thanks for your help in keeping our attendance record keeping accurate and manageable!
Duluth Saliva Test Site: DECC
Mon-Thurs: 11 A.M. - 6 P.M.
Schedule an appt: mncovidtestingappt.as.me
Enter DECC parking lot east gate. Enter DECC Door D, to Paulucci Hall.
Sportsmanship: A Priority and an Expectation
As an athlete or fan of your school, your sportsmanship goals should include the following:
1. Developing a sense of dignity under all circumstances. Win or lose - avoid negative chants or trash talking
2. Respecting the rules of the game and the officials. Do not enter the field of play.
3. Respecting your opponents as fellow athletes and acknowledging that they are striving to do their best, while you do the same. No profanity, negative chants, booing, trash talking, or name calling.
4. Refraining from disrespectful behavior, specifically taunting, trash talking, and other forms of intimidation. Treat each person the way you would want to be treated - observe the "Golden Rule." Personal attacks and taunting are unacceptable
5. Looking at each game as a potentially beneficial learning experience, win or lose. Cheers like “start the bus” and chants directed at the opposing team or fans must be avoided. Just because other schools do it, doesn't mean we have to.
6. Educating other students and fans about rules of the game and values of sportsmanship is important to avoid the consequences of poor behavior: students will be asked to leave the game, they will not be allowed to attend future games, and if they are an athlete - they could face MSHSL code of conduct penalties.
Student and Family Help Desk
Duluth Public Schools families and students have access to Help Desk support:
- Help Desk Hotline 218-336-8732 or
- Start a Help Desk Ticket
The Help Desk is available to assist students and parents with questions related to district technical support issues, for example:
- District Chromebook support
- District hotspot support
- System login questions
- Filtering
- Limited personal devices and internet support
- Limited Digital Curriculum support
Looking for Parking?
Please do your best to honor the resident parking areas. This means we have many students who have to park blocks away. Be safe as you are walking and driving near East; we want to keep our students and staff safe!
We encourage athletes who will be returning late from away games to move their vehicles into the parking lot before they go into any open space. We want them to be in the lot and not walking to their cars on the streets at night.
Thank you for your understanding. We get a lot of angry calls every year at parking pass time. Unfortunately, we just don't have easy solutions. This year there are hundreds of students still on the wait list.
We will be revoking passes for students with unexcused absences at the end of each quarter and giving them to students on the wait list. Keep an eye on attendance and make sure to send notes in when students must miss.
If you didn't get a pass, please take a minute to look at the city's parking map. You can click this link and drag it to the area around East.
https://duluthmn.maps.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=f1a6ca469d054bc98a9fcffa24babb86
Tutoring Available with St. Scholastica Students!
Counseling Office Notes
REQUEST AN APPOINTMENT WITH YOUR COUNSELOR OR SOCIAL WORKER
Counseling Office Contacts:
218-336-8845
Jenn LaBelle, Registrar: ext 2143, jennifer.labelle@isd709.org
Jamie Savre, Counselor (A-E): ext 2154, jamie.savre@isd709.org
Jessica Forsman, Counselor (F-La): ext 2041, jessica.forsman@isd709.org
Morgan Costley, Counselor (Le-Re), ext 1262, morgan.costley@isd709.org
Laura Horton, Counselor (Rh-Z,) ext 1121, laura.horton@isd709.org
Kerri Persons, Counselor, ext TBD, kerri.persons@isd709.org
Activities Office News
Click to purchase tickets to an East event/game.
Click to view the full activities and facility schedule.
Click to learn more about activities at East!
Click to live stream East events.
Activities Office Contacts
218-336-8845
Lynn Carlson, Clerical/Treasurer: ext 2304, lynn.carlson@isd709.org
Shawn Roed, Activities Director: ext 2151, shawn.roed@isd709.org
Notes and Resources from Outside Agencies (Not ISD 709)
Duluth East High School
Assistant Principals: Jon Flaa, Kyle Rock
Activities Director: Shawn Roed
Email: darcy.motschenbacher@isd709.org
Website: https://www.isd709.org/duluth-east
Location: 301 North 40th Avenue East, Duluth, MN, USA
Phone: 218-336-8845
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dulutheasthighschool