Weekly Mehlville Update – Mehlville Football Panthers State Championship Results – 11-24-2007
November 24, 2007
Friend,
Happy belated Thanksgiving. I wanted to wait until today to send my update to include news about the Mehlville High State Championship Football Game. Sadly, MHS fell to Kansas City Rockhurst last night at the Edward Jones Dome by a 28-9 score. However, the Panthers of Mehlville put up quite a fight, actually leading the high-powered Rockhurst team by a 9-7 score at half. Mehlville Coach Heyde, his staff and players should hold their heads high. Rockhurst has now won 8 State Championships, including 3 during this decade. Congrats to St. Louis’ best Class 6A football team, the Mehlville Panthers. By the way, Mehlville had a great crowd supporting them last night, more on our side of the dome then on the now 8-time state champs.
I don’t know if I ever had a chance to mention in my weekly updates that the Oakville High swim team finished 6th in the state this year, coming in as the highest scoring team in the state from the St. Louis area. Add to that the MHS soccer Final Four appearance and the OHS softball 2nd place, and our District had a remarkable fall sports season. Congrats to all of our coaches and players.
This coming week, UNICOM ARC invites you to participate in an open focus group about Mehlville School District communication efforts. If you haven’t had an opportunity to take part in a previous focus group this fall and would like to share your thoughts about the District’s communication efforts, please attend this focus group on Tuesday evening (November 27) at 6pm at Central Office. If you need more information, give me a call on Monday or Tuesday during the workday.
I am including with this email the news releases I sent last week (November 16). I was hard at work on the upcoming Messenger this past week and did not send out any releases on Wednesday. I’ll send fresh news releases this coming Friday (Nov. 30) and will copy you on them.
Also included with this email is Dr. Knost’s Character Plus Word of the Month attachment. I received numerous positive emails in response to including the Word of the Month in October and wanted to send you November’s as well.
I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. Just think, Winter Break is only 4 weeks away.
Finally, I’ve been asked to pass along that the Mehlville Mothers’ Club is hosting a fund-raiser for the Class of 2008 all night graduation party. All you have to do to help is eat at CiCi’s Pizza on Thursday, November 29. There will be a box for you to drop your receipt into and the MHS Mothers’ Club will receive a percentage of sales that day.
That’s it for now. GO MIZZOU!
Regards,
Patrick W. Wallace, APR
Director – School/Community Relations
Mehlville School District
Phone: (314) 467-5152
Fax: (314) 467-5198
What Makes Us Moral — TIME
November 24, 2007
One of the comments on my web site includes a paragraph on the “immoral instruction” of public schools. I quickly responded with the fact that morality is somewhat relative to your culture, your religion, your country, etc. When I said it, I did not mean that there is not an absolute good, and an absolute evil, but that in philosophical terms, absolute good and evil is somewhat subjective. This article from TIME magazine does a very good job of explaining my position on relative morality.
What Makes Us Moral — Printout — TIME
We’re a species that is capable of almost dumbfounding kindness. We nurse one another, romance one another, weep for one another. Ever since science taught us how, we willingly tear the very organs from our bodies and give them to one another. And at the same time, we slaughter one another. The past 15 years of human history are the temporal equivalent of those subatomic particles that are created in accelerators and vanish in a trillionth of a second, but in that fleeting instant, we’ve visited untold horrors on ourselves—in Mogadishu, Rwanda, Chechnya, Darfur, Beslan, Baghdad, Pakistan, London, Madrid, Lebanon, Israel, New York City, Abu Ghraib, Oklahoma City, an Amish schoolhouse in Pennsylvania—all of the crimes committed by the highest, wisest, most principled species the planet has produced. That we’re also the lowest, cruelest, most blood-drenched species is our shame—and our paradox.
Young warned over social websites – BBC
November 24, 2007
BBC NEWS | Technology | Young warned over social websites
Young warned over social websites
Laptop computer
An ICO website aims to help young people protect personal details
Millions of young people could damage their future careers with the details about themselves they post on social networking websites, a watchdog warns.
The Information Commissioner’s Office found more than half of those asked made most of their information public.
Some 71% of 2,000 14 to 21-year-olds said they would not want colleges or employers to do a web search on them before they had removed some material.
The commission said the young needed to be aware of their electronic footprint.
