Kiwanis Of Middletown News: MHS Powder Puff Football Game & Warm the Children campaign needs your help!

From Kiwanis website, club officers at the Cape Cod Kiwanis Convention

Middletown High School - LaRosa Lane, Middletown, CT 

 

TODAY Monday, November 25, 2013 7 pm.

Junior vs. Senior Girls in a game of flag football, male students as cheerleaders.

Middletown High Key Club's annual Powder Puff flag football game fundraiser! This is a major fundraiser for our Key Club. Kiwanis members are helping with gate collections. A really fun event for all involved from the players to the spectators! Come on down!
http://www.middletownkiwanis.org
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What Is Warm The Children?
The Warm The Children program provides new basic and warm winter clothing and footwear for needy children, ages birth through age 15, in the greater Middletown area.
The families are referred to us by various sources including the public elementary & middle schools in Middletown, Portland, Cromwell, East Hampton and Regional School District 13 Durham-Middlefield, CRT’s Head Start, Middletown Adult Education’s Even Start, as well as the Middlesex Hospital’s Family Advocacy programs and the Salvation Army. We do not take individual requests.
Based upon funding availability, Warm The Children establishes the number of children to be served during the upcoming winter season. Each agency/school is then given an allotment of referrals they can make for the season.
All donations and grants to Warm The Children are used to purchase new clothing. There is no payroll; the program is all volunteer, and any incidental costs, such as postage for thank you letters, are paid for by the Middletown Kiwanis Club.

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Middletown High Teachers Honor Beloved Teacher with Memorial

Middletown teachers organized a "jeans day" to raise contributions to the Linda M. Beloin Memorial Scholarship. Beloin was a beloved English teacher at Middletown High School who passed away in April of 2013. She taught at the school from 2002 to 2013.Graduating senior Ava Varszegi received the first annual scholarship at the Senior Awards Ceremony. There is a marker stone in honor of Beloin in the courtyard at the high school with a special butterfly bush.

Middletown School Propoganda: For the Children or Waste of Money?

Existing App for News from MPS

Blue Prints is a student run newspaper at Middletown High School and has been for over a decade.Blue Prints is a Gold Medallist winner from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association. The newspaper, run entirely by students, is funded through local advertisers. According to the Middletown public schools website "it  is a traditional newspaper to inform, entertain, and serve as open forum for student/community opinion."

Are there still not enough ways to find out MPS news?

It was run for years by teacher Jim Bransfield during his tenure at Middletown High. Bransfield also was a featured sports writer for the Middletown Press and celebrated announcer at Palmer Field for many years. Bransfield, now retired from being a high school politics teacher, is  now a para-educator at the Board of Education. Patch a subsidiary of AOL-Time Warner run by editor and veteran journalist Cassandra Day. Patch features blog articles by guest writers and some paid staff bloggers. The Insider find the Patch of the most unbias media publications in Middletown, and a refreshing alternative to other blogs and papers.

Is there really anyone against education?

 In the past few weeks, various feel good articles touting Middletown Public Schools many activities and accomplishments have popped up on Patch written by Bransfield. See an example here: http://middletown-ct.patch.com/announcements/mhs-dance-team-wins-state-title-again The writing quality of Bransfield is unquestionably superb, we at the Insider recognize that, hear- but is this expense needed? The BOE is paying to toot it's own horn.

 However, the question is why are these not being written by students such as those writing for Blue Prints? The board of education is paying a professional writer, who happens to be Bransfield, to write these press releases and attend the events. Is this a  necessary communication tool to the community?

Each school principal produces a parent newsletter available on the Middletown Public Schools website of good things happening at each school on a monthly basis, so why not use this information? 

Is the BOE really spending taxpayer money wisely paying a professional writer to produce propoganda? If it is for the children, how does this help their education when it seems an opportunity to have students write being squandered?