Monday, December 10, 2012
Principal Kellye Riggins sent email to parents regarding Dec. 3 incident at Dacula Middle School.
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Monday, December 10, 2012
Dacula Middle School principal Kellye Riggins today (Dec. 10) addressed concerns regarding a Dec. 3 incident at Dacula Middle School. In an email sent to parents, Riggins indicated she wished to address rumors circulating regarding the disciplinary incident. Riggins wrote, "In disciplinary situations like this, we work with the parents of the two students involved in the situation. However, as I am hearing a number of unsettling and inaccurate versions of what occurred, I felt it prudent to reach out to you to give you information that will help squelch the rumors circulating. While I cannot share with you details about this incident because of the age of our students, I do want to reassure you of several things. First, while one of our …
Monday, July 25, 2011
Four Gwinnett County Schools did not meet AYP requirements, and students from these schools may choose to transfer to Dacula Middle.
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Monday, July 25, 2011
Dacula Middle School has been designated as a school that will accept choice transfer students for the 2011-2012 school year. According to a press release, these students will come from other Gwinnett County middle schools that did not meet the AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress) for two or more years. This program, under the provision of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, allows parents to transfer their children from a school that has not made AYP for two years in a row to another school in the district. During the 2010-2011 school year, 25 Gwinnett County schools did not met the AYP. Four of these schools failed to meet the AYP in 2009-2010 as well, and students from these schools are now eligible to transfer. These four schools are …
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Monday, April 11, 2011
A look at recent and upcoming events in Dacula area schools.
Here's a look at upcoming events, recent news and accomplishments in our area schools:
Monday, April 4, 2011
A look at recent happenings in Dacula area schools.
Here's a look at recent news, events and accomplishments in our area schools:
Monday, March 28, 2011
Dacula middle and high school students competing this weekend to advance to Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.
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Monday, March 28, 2011
Three Mill Creek High School students have earned a spot in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair to be held May 8-13 in Los Angeles. He Sun Kim, Sunyoung Wang and Guillermo Bautista along with Danish Singh from the Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology and Aprotim Bhowmik of Parkview High have secured places in the international competition. Kim, Wang and Bautista advanced with their physics and astronomy project. All five students qualified for the international competition based on their high rankings during the regional challenge in February. Several Dacula High School students and one Dacula Middle School student hope to join Kim, Wang, Bautista, Singh and Bhowmik at the Los Angeles competition. …
Friday, March 11, 2011
Dacula Middle School FBLA dominates competitions while helping the community.
Each week, Dacula Patch seeks suggestions from readers for individual kids, youth groups, teens and even sports teams that wow us with their accomplishments. Here’s a look at this week’s nominee. Grades 6-8, Dacula Middle School Accomplishment: The Dacula Middle School FBLA gives sixth through eighth graders and opportunity to learn about business and economics, while participating in community service and competitions. Key to Success: Through the leadership of teacher Keri Beth Tidmore and the support of principal Dr. Kellye Riggins, the Future Business Leaders of America at Dacula Middle School has become one of the top chapters of the club in Georgia. As the first chartered middle level chapter in Gwinnett County, Dacula’s FBLA has seen…
Friday, March 4, 2011
What good is teaching to test if students cannot balance a checkbook, write a grammatically correct letter or do simple math without the use of a calculator?
There is hardly a day that goes by in any given week that I don't pass Dacula Middle School and Dacula High School in my goings and comings. As I pass Dacula Middle School, I sometimes notice acronyms and dates posted on the sign out front. Are these acronyms the criterion tests I hear and read so much about? When I see these acronyms and dates, I invariably ask myself the question: "Are we teaching our kids to learn or are we teaching our kids to test?" I will have to admit that I am from the old school where I was taught to learn the subject matter. When test time came, testing took care of itself. Teaching to learn or teaching to test was a question I asked a retired educator at lunch last week. She confirmed there was enormous pressure…
Monday, January 31, 2011
Dacula Middle School basketball players take course in character development.
The Dacula Middle School boys' basketball team is learning not only how to win on the court, but also learning how to win in the biggest game of all: the game of life. The team participates in a program called "Character Academy." Each week the team sits down in a classroom setting and discusses topics such as humility, teamwork and respect. "Character Academy has instilled a value for character that is far more important than the game of basketball," said Dacula head coach Jason Thomas. The Character Academy program was created by assistant coach David Bethea. The mission of the program is spelled out on the cover of the Character Academy portfolio distributed to the players: "Our mission is to train our players to become young men of …
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