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Show EDUCATION The Park Record. Editor: Carolyn Webber education@parkrecord.com 435.649.9014 ex.118 UKULELE LESSONS BEGIN Trailside Elementary School is offering ukulele lessons for second through fifth graders. The first session began on Sept. 19 and runs through Nov. 19. Second and third grades meet on Thursdays from 3:15 to 4:15 p.m. and fourth and fifth graders meet on Tuesdays at the same time. The session costs $80. The PTO provides all the baritone ukuleles and some concert ukuleles, but they are also available for purchase at a discounted price. Two six-week sessions will run through January/February and April/May. Bill McGinnis is the instructor for the course. COMMUNITY INVITED TO PCHS FRIDAY TAILGATE Park City High School is wrapping up their Homecoming Week with a tailgate and football game that is open to all community members in Park City. The festivities begin at 5:30 p.m. with games, music and free burgers. The event is put on by the Park City School District Office, School Board, Student Council and various clubs at the school, such as the Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) and National Honor Society (NHS). The tailgate will celebrate safe and healthy opportunities for students, tying in the year-long theme from the Park City School District. SIGN UP NOW FOR PARENTTEACHER CONFERENCES Registration is open for parent-teacher conferences at Treasure Mountain Junior High and Park City High School. The junior high and high school will both hold conferences next Wednesday, Sept. 27 and the high school an additional day on Thursday, Sept. 28. Parents can sign up online through Sept. 26. Appointments at the junior high are available between 3 and 5 p.m. and there will be an open forum from 5:45 to 7 p.m. High school conferences can be scheduled between 3 and 6 p.m. and open conferences are between 6 and 7 p.m. Parents must have the student’s school identification number and birth date when signing up. PCHS GSA STARTS ADULT EDUCATION CLASS, A-10 www.parkrecord.com A-9 YOUTH CONQUER FEARS WITH NEW CLUB, A-10 WED/THURS/FRI, SEPTEMBER 20-22, 2017 Teens hold drive for school hit by Harvey The Lion’s Heart Teen Group will collect and ship supplies Sunday By CAROLYN WEBBER The Park Record When Hurricane Harvey hit, Bodi Marzka, 13, asked himself, “What can I do to help?” After hearing about a kindergarten teacher who lost all of her classroom supplies during flooding, he presented his proposition to fellow members of the Lion’s Heart Teen Group and they decided to “adopt” the class. The nine boys are now seeking donations for Ms. Pritt’s kindergarten class at the Harmony Science Academy in Sugar Land, Texas, just outside of Houston. They collected crayons, scissors, pencils, books, folders and a backpack going door-to-door in the Park Meadows neighborhood on Sunday, Sept. 17 and will pick up more supplies on Sunday, Sept. 24 before shipping everything off to Texas. The boys, who joined the club last September when Lion’s Heart Teen Group began, are glad to be helping out in whatever way they can. “It lets them know that there’s someone out there to help them,” said Colten McIntyre, 13. CAROLYN WEBBER/PARK RECORD The Lion’s Heart Teen Group gather before collecting school supplies. Top row, from left: Jack Goodman, Michael O’Brien, Gabe Hopkins and Tyler Gallwas. Bottom Row, from left: Tiana McIntyre, Colten McIntrye, Blake Matamoros and Bodi Marzka. Marzka became aware of Ms. Pritt’s classroom needs after his mother saw a request for help on Facebook. Dawn Marzka, Bodi’s mom, went to high school with Tammy Pritt, who had posted about the devastation at her school. This is the fourth time in three years that the school has flooded, and this last storm pushed them over the edge. “This time, Harvey devastated ev- erything. She had nothing left. She didn’t know what she was going to do,” Dawn Marzka said. Since 75 percent of Pritt’s students are from low-income families, they needed a helping hand. Since returning to school on Monday, Sept. 11 they have been making do with what they have, which is next to nothing. Soon, the boys hope, those classes will be full again with everything they need. The Lion’s Heart Teen Group is part of a nationwide service organization for students between grades six and 12. This past year, the boys logged a total of 490 service hours, doing such work as preparing boxes of food for developing countries and doing yard work for four hours straight. They ofPlease see Teens, A-11 SAGE scores sink as students drop test Almost 50 percent of Park City High School students are opting out By CAROLYN WEBBER The Park Record Nationwide, schools are required to test students in order to measure growth and learning over time, but when more than a quarter of the student population chooses not to take the test, those test scores are hard to evaluate. The Utah State Board of Education announced last week that test scores for the Student Assessment of Growth and Excellence (SAGE) dropped throughout the state of Utah, including in Park City and South Summit School Districts. Students are tested at the end of the year in three subjects: language arts, mathematics and science. In The Park City School District, scores in language arts dropped from 53.7 to 51.4 percent, mathematics from 54.5 to 51.1 percent and science from 58.7 to 53.2 percent. Melinda Colton, spokesperson for the Park City School District, said these may seem low, but they are higher than the state’s scores of 43.6, 45.7 and 47.5 percent. But, the district does not take these scores into account anyway post-fifth grade because of high optout rates. While schools are required by state law to test students using a standardPlease see SAGE, A-11 CE A L P R YOU ! 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