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Visual Arts News
Check out news from the Olathe South Visual Arts department.
Parking for OS Athletic Events
Winter sports are about to begin at Olathe South.
Due to construction, please enter through the northeast entrace of the school when you attend athletic events at South.
Thank you for your help.
AVID students offering free tutoring
Who: Olathe South students
What: Tutoring or service hours
When: November 17th 3:30-6:30 PM
Where: Flex theater, but please sign up in room 305
Anything else: We can even help with electives and foreign languages as well as core classes and AP classes
Olathe South grad wounded at Fort Hood
Don Bradley
Olathe Daily News
Army Reserve Spc. Keara Bono’s family was working up to the idea of her going to Iraq.
“I didn’t know I had to worry about her getting shot down in Texas,” her mother, Peggy McCarty, said Thursday night.
Bono, 21, a 2006 graduate of Olathe South High School, was one of 31 people wounded Thursday at the Fort Hood military base in Texas. Twelve people were killed, including the shooter.
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Southern Highlights: November Edition Online
Find out about the latest news and celebrations taking place at Olathe South.
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Under Construction!
At its Aug. 6 monthly meeting, the Board of Education approved moving up the timetable for changing over to 6-7-8 middle schools and four-year high schools. The district was able to take advantage of the slowed economy to gain efficiencies in both construction costs and timelines, which meant the four high school additions now underway will be completed a year early—in August 2010. Read more...
Student Handbook
The 2009-2019 Student Handbook is now availble. Download here.
Attendance Procedure
Attendance is a vital aspect of student success in high school…
Parents/guardians are asked to notify the attendance office
the day before or by 9:00 a.m. on the date of the absence.
913.780.7866
The following may be recognized as excused absences:
Personal illness
Serious illness or death of a member of the family or close friend
Obligatory religious observances of the students’ own faith
Participation in a school-approved student activity
Verified physician or dentist appointments
Court appearances
Emergency situations requiring immediate action
An absence which has been requested in writing and approved
in advance by the building administration
In-school and out-of-school suspensions
Tardies
To help students arrive to class on time, there is a one-minute signal before the tardy bell. Any student not arriving to class on time must report to the tardy table. The student will be given an Admit to Class slip or a detention slip (he/she will be assigned a 25-minute detention for each tardy after the fifth tardy). Teachers have been instructed not to allow students into class late without one or the other.
A student is recorded as absent if he/she is more than 10 minutes late to class.
A student is tardy if he/she arrives to class within 10 minutes of the start of class.
