Booker T. Washington High School will be hosting their annual College/Career night along with Open House Thursday, September 5, 2013 @ 6:00p.m. We are looking forward to a great turn out! Let's start the new year out on track by getting to know your child's teachers and their expectations while getting the information from various colleges to prepare our children for a successful future. Show up and be INFORMED!!
The 2013 football season opened last night at Golden Eagle Stadium with Booker T. Washington High losing to Tallessee High School.
The game was interrupted by lightening, with the officials halting play to allow the threat of lightening to subside. Tallassee defeated Booker T. Washington 42 - 6, with Booker T. Washington scoring in the last quarter.
Booker T. Washington High School
Student Dress Code 2013-2014
Tops - Shirts:
Polo collared shirt (polo style)
Colors- Purple or Gold
Long or short sleeves
NO brand logos (BTW monogram optional)
Bottoms - Pants/Slacks:
Khaki pants or shorts (no denim)
No cargo pockets
No sagging pants
Khaki skirts, shorts, dresses, and jumpers must be
no higher than the 1” above the knee
Undershirts:
Only plain white t-shirts may be worn
No undergarments should be visible through shirt
Belts:
Belts must be worn and fit properly
Colors- solid black, solid white or solid brown
Standard buckles only (no oversized buckles)
Shoes/Socks:
Shoes must cover feet (tennis shoes preferred)
No slip-ins, flip flops, high heels, sandals are allowed
Colors- solid black, solid white or solid brown
Jewelry:
No nose, tongue, or facial piercings.
Earrings larger than one inch will not be allowed.
Accessories with spikes, heavy medallions, large finger rings, and anything else that the principal or designee deems inappropriate will not be allowed.
Hair:
Hats, caps, bandanas, bonnets, hair wraps or skull caps, visors, and sunglasses are not permitted.
Student ID:
Students are required to wear an identification badge while on campus.
Consequences for Dress Code Violations:
1st Violation: Parent will be contacted and required to take corrective action.
2nd Violation: Student will receive a one-day suspension and parent will be requested to bring appropriate attire/shoes.
3rd and Subsequent Violations: Violation(s) will be upgraded to Defiance of authority and consequences will be issued accordingly..
Dr. Carolyn McDade-Bettis received her Doctoral Degree in Leadership, Policy and Law Saturday during Alabama State University's Commencement. This is truly a big milestone for the McDade Family, along with my retiring. There were numerous Booker T. Washington graduates as well. Go Macon County Schools!
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The Tuskegee Human and Civil Rights Multicultural Center needs your help to win a competition they have entered to gain much-needed supplies. If they win, they will be provided with technology from OnCell Quest that will greatly benefit the Center by enhancing the experience of visitors.
Fatherhood Event on June 16, 2013
The Tuskegee Housing Authority, in partnership with the Tuskegee Macon County Community Development Corporation invites you to join us in encouraging and promoting fatherhood by bringing Dad, Stepdad, Granddad, Brother, Uncle to the Life Development Center, on Benson Ave, on Friday June 16th from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM.
For details, please download the attached flyer.
This week is National Nurses Week. Show your school nurse some love this week, especially Mrs. Lawanda Gray. Please visit the National Nurses Week web site to learn more about one of the hardest, but most fulfilling jobs in the world.
It's Teacher Appreciation Week! If you can read this, Thank a Teacher! Visit the Teacher Appreciation Page on Facebook.
The home of Carter Woodson, located in Washington D.C., is among 24 sites identified for preservation through a grant from American Express and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The winners will be selected by voting using social media, like Twitter and Facebook.
Of the 24 sites, the home of Carter Woodson is the only one that honors a famous African American leader.
Born December 19, 1875, the son of former enslaved Africans, James and Eliza Riddle Woodson. His father helped Union soldiers during the Civil War, and he moved his family to West Virginia when he heard that Huntington was building a high school for blacks. Coming from a large, poor family, Carter Woodson could not regularly attend school. Through self-instruction, Woodson mastered the fundamentals of common school subjects by age 17.
Wanting more education, Carter went to Fayette County to earn a living as a miner in the coal fields. He was able to devote only a few months each year to his schooling. In 1895, at the age of 20, Woodson entered Douglas High School, where he received his diploma in less than two years. From 1897 to 1900, Woodson taught at Winona in Fayette County. In 1900 he was selected as the principal of Douglass High School. He earned his Bachelor of Literature degree from Berea College in Kentucky in 1903 by taking classes part-time between 1901 and 1903.
From 1903 to 1907, Woodson was a school supervisor in the Philippines. Later, he attended the University of Chicago (Barak Obama's Alma Mater), where he was awarded an A.B. and A.M. in 1908. He was a member of the first black fraternity Sigma Pi Phi and a member of Omega Psi Phi. He completed his Ph.D. in history at Harvard University in 1912, where he was the second African American (after W.E.B. Dubois) to earn a doctorate. His doctoral dissertation,The Disruption of Virginia, was based on research he did at the Library of Congress while teaching high school in Washington, D.C. After earning the doctoral degree, he continued teaching in the public schools, later joining the faculty at Howard University as a professor, where he served as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
Convinced that the role of his own people in American history and in the history of other cultures was being ignored or misrepresented among scholars, Woodson realized the need for research into the neglected past of African Americans. Along with Alexander L. Jackson, Woodson in 1915 published The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861. His other books followed: A Century of Negro Migration continues to be published by the Association for the study of African American Life and History (ASALH).
Also in 1915 Woodson began the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (now the Association for the Study of African American Life and History), which ran conferences, published The Journal of Negro History, and "particularly targeted those responsible for the education of black children".
He once wrote, “If you can control a man’s thinking, you don’t have to worry about his actions. If you can determine what a man thinks you do not have to worry about what he will do. If you can make a man believe that he is inferior, you don’t have to compel him to seek an inferior status, he will do so without being told and if you can make a man believe that he is justly an outcast, you don’t have to order him to the back door, he will go to the back door on his own and if there is no back door, the very nature of the man will demand that you build one.”
What you can do to help:
- LIKE us on Facebook and tell you friends about: http://www.facebook.com/NPS.CAWO
- VOTE for us by registering at http://partnersinpreservation.com with either your Facebook or email account. Earn 50 points.
- FOLLOW us on Twitter @WoodsonNPS. Then TWEET about us, using #CarterWoodson. Earns 10 Points.
For more information on how you can support the effort to preserve the Washington D.C. Home, please see the attached flyer.
