FORT SCOTT USD 234

📢 Fort Scott USD 234 is NOW HIRING Substitutes for the 2025-2026 School Year! 🐯

We’re looking for dedicated individuals to join our team in the following substitute roles:

✅ Teacher
✅ Paraeducator
✅ Food Service Cook
✅ Bus Driver
✅ Custodian

Whether you're looking to stay involved in education, serve your community, or earn extra income — we’d love to have you on board!

📍 Apply today at: www.usd234.org
📞 Questions? Call us at: 620-223-0800

Help us make a difference in the lives of our students. Please share with anyone who might be interested!

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USD 234 Board Office has a new look in our lobby! Senior, Maddi Cook, has been hard at work the past few months blessing us with her talents. We want to give her a BIG thank you for her time and efforts. It looks great!! 🐾

Reminder: The last day of school for USD 234 Students will be Thursday, May 15th!

The annual FSHS Talent Show and Minute to Win It was held on March 28th. The event, sponsored by FSHS Thespian Troupe #7635 and emceed by Molly Hoyt and Emma Bin, awarded cash prizes to the top three competitors. Junior Zoe Scott won the $100 grand prize. She sang "At Last" by Etta James. Sophomore Allie Wards took second and $75 with her violin solo of “Adoration” by Felix Borowski. Third place and $50 went to junior Junie Fisher and freshman Gianna Gorman for their duet of "What is This Feeling" from Wicked. A new Minute to Win It competition was held between clubs and organizations. The Minute to Win It winners were Blaiton Terry and Gracin Pitts for FFA. They win $200 sponsored by Thespians and National Speech and Debate Association toward their club or favorite charity. The next Thespian event is the annual Rummage Sale to be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Apr. 18 and from 8 a.m. to noon on Apr. 19 at FSHS. Enter the school through the NW doors. Prices for the sale are a free will donation. Thespians is now accepting donations at the high school or contact Angie Bin at angela.bin@usd234.org or 620-719-9622 for pick up.

Tomorrow is our local Special Olympics at Frary Field! We are excited to cheer on all of the athletes who will be participating! 🐾

USD 234 Spring Break is almost here! School will resume on Monday the 24th.

3/10/25 Board Meeting

April 11th is Preschool Round-Up!

April 9th is Kindergarten Round-Up!

March is Theatre in Our Schools Month! Celebrate by attending the FSHS Talent Show on March 28th at 7:00 p.m.

Save the date! The Fort Scott Preschool Center will be hosting our annual Early Childhood Spring Fling on Thursday, April 3, 2025. All children ages birth-six years old and their families are invited to join preschool staff and community partners for an evening of fun! Activities and games will be set up from 5:00-6:30. come when you can and stay for as long as you would like. Older siblings are welcome to join the fun!

Scott Kimble, Fort Scott High School Principal has been selected to the Kansas Association of School Boards' Leadership for Tomorrow (LFT) Class of 2025. Participants are nominated and then chosen through an application process that focuses on individual leadership in Kansas public education and participation in activities that promote effective governance and raise student achievement. Leadership for Tomorrow gives board members, superintendents and administrators time to explore change theories and strategies, participate in leadership skill training and expand understanding of education and key issues for effective governance and raising student achievement. Through five two-day sessions, the class will visit local schools, hear classroom presentations and participate in class discussions of issues and challenges facing Kansas education. At the end of the program, LFT members walk away with a new set of skills and knowledge that better prepares them for success in leading the modern education environment.

USD 234 will provide preschool screenings for children up to the age of 5 years on March 28th, 2025. Children may have vision, hearing, speech/communication, motor skills, socialization skills, and general development screened. The purpose of the screenings is to locate and identify children with possible developmental delays who may need special education preschool and/or related services. Appointments may be scheduled by calling Tammy Catron, Fort Scott Preschool Center Secretary, at (620) 223-8965, Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

There will be no school on Monday, February 17th.

FSHS Thespians presents "And Then They Came for Me - Remembering the World of Anne Frank" Fort Scott High School Thespians presents the play "And Then They Came for Me - Remembering the World of Anne Frank" by James Still. Performances are at 7 p.m. on Feb. 20-22 in the FSHS Auditorium. The production is a multi-media performance with live sound bytes and videos from the actual Holocaust survivors portrayed in the play as well as real video footage from the time period. In addition to the performance, the lobby will feature many items of interest to the audience. A collection of Holocaust memorabilia from local historians Ronda and Rob Hassig will be on display in the Art Gallery. Students in the Advanced Drama class are displaying research on groups of oppressed peoples and plays that have been written to speak up for those groups, much like how “And Then They Came for Me” speaks for victims and survivors of the Holocaust. Students in Jon Barnes’ Government and Current Events classes, after reading and listening to Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter From a Birmingham Jail,” wrote “A Letter From a Fort Scott Classroom” about a time in their lives that they felt discriminated against. Many of these letters will be available to read. The Technical Theatre class also built white models of set designs for the play that are on display. Cast and crew members of the play were educated about the real lives of their characters through research and a presentation by Ronda Hassig. Hassig has personally visited sixty concentration camps and she shared her knowledge and photos with the students to help them better understand their characters and the world of the play. Senior Kaiden Clary plays one of the Holocaust survivors, “Performing Young Ed gave me a chance to look into how a Jewish person was treated during WWll, how this person had to hide from SS guards to even be with his grandparents, how he had to try to escape time and time again. After learning about and discussing him, it is hard to believe that people actually had to go through many of these things, especially not seeing his parents for almost four years.” Tickets for “And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the Life of Anne Frank” are $5 for students and $7 for adults and available at fortscotthighschool.ludus.com or at the door. Doors open thirty minutes prior to showtime. The play is directed by FSHS Theatre Director Angie Bin with Mesa Jones serving as Assistant Director. It is produced by special arrangement with The Dramatic Publishing Company of Woodstock, Illinois. Please contact Bin at angela.bin@usd234.org or at 620-719-9622 with questions. Contact: Angie Bin, angela.bin@usd234.org, 620-719-9622

There will be no school for USD 234 tomorrow.

Mark your calendars!

Tomorrow is Fort Scott High School Winter Homecoming! Coronation will be held between Varsity Basketball games. Go Tigers!

Spirit Week dress up days for each building. 1/27/25-1/31/25

There will be no school on Monday, January 20th.