Three people within Salina Unified School District 305 were recognized as recipients of the Salina Education Foundation s Loan Initiative for Future Teachers (L.I.F.T.) program.
Two 305 students and a faculty member with the district will receive the loans. The three were guests at a reception at the USD 305 district building and honored during the district s board of education meeting on Tuesday.
The students, seniors Lexi Doherty of Salina South High and Reagan Stein, of Salina Central High, will both graduate this May. Both students said they have had a good education in Salina. The teachers that we have in USD 305 are very inspiring, said Doherty, who will be studying elementary education at Kansas State University. They definitely help push students to reach their potential.
Plan Invernal 2021 | Arranca en un mes tiemposur.com.ar - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from tiemposur.com.ar Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Salina South and Sacred Heart students competed and debated their way into being the 2021 KSHSAA State Debate Champions over the weekend.
Salina South seniors Maya Daily and Tiana Marion are the 2021 KSHSAA Class 5A state debate champions who competed in the state competition hosted by Olathe Northwest High School. Sacred Heart s Sara Del Real and Lillina Perrin were the Class 3-2-1A champions, and their classmates Kiera Cochran and Stephanie Silverman received second during the state competition hosted by Lyons High School.
Virtual debates
The state debate competitions were held online for the first time due to taking coronavirus safety precautions. During the June 2020 KSHSAA Executive Board meeting, the board unanimously passed a virtual debate policy for the 2020-21 school year. The students debated several topics throughout the year, such as social justice, the death penalty and immigration.
In the last round of his high school debate career the 5A state championship at that Palmer Bo Miller knew he and his partner Anthony Lake would have to argue against something in which he personally believes.
In Kansas’ high school debate, teams of two students face off against another team from a different school in front of an impartial judge. One team is tasked to be the affirmative, or to advance some argument around some general, yearly theme, and convince the judge that the course of action laid out in their argument is the best option for society. This debate season, that theme was criminal justice reform, specifically forensic science practices and sentencing, although teams may, and often do, pick more abstract arguments around those topics.