FBLA did so well at their Regional Competition today!!
We'd like to invite the community to bring baby donations to the high school basketball games Saturday.
SJHS: We are on an unplanned fire drill right now.
Its time to start registering new NAVIT students for next year. Please click link to see whats available for your sophomore/incoming junior student next year and complete the form. Thank you! https://forms.gle/G4KTLUbU1cxpidYc6
SJUSD is hiring a new high school principal for school year 2024-2025. Please check out the link for more info. Please help us spread the word!
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Play practice for the remainder of the week will be as follows...
Tuesday - 7:00-9:30pm
Wednesday - 8:00-9:30pm
Thursday - 7:00-9:30pm
ALL practices this week are for the full cast. Practices are the HS Auditorium.
Tonight's basketball games vs Sanders have been cancelled due to weather.
This year's yearbooks are now on sale!!! Click here to order: https://link.entourageyearbooks.com/my/SJHS2024
If you are still waiting on a previous year's Yearbook, please know that they have all been ordered. Thank you to Mrs. Lindsey and the current Yearbook class for getting all of those revised and out to order as well as having the 2024 Yearbook on track for the end of this year!
Congratulations to our Writing Students of the Week!
Eliza Wood
Madi Jarvis
Evanna Richardson
Well done, ladies!
Wear Red and White at tonight's game!!
Tuesday, January 16 is the next NHS Blood Drive. There is a critical need for blood in Arizona so your donation is important! You may schedule your appointment by calling 877-25-VITAL or going online to www.donors.vitalant.org and use blood drive code stjohn. Registration forms and parent consent forms are available in the office or Mrs. Kelley's room. See you next Tuesday!
Our SJHS Journalism Class has published their first school Newsletter! Click here to see it: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C-T18iBhzx5OD-5l37UzqxBFRMFtnasn/view?usp=sharing
Softball Meeting, Tuesday January 9th during lunch. Meeting will be in the career center. All girls interested in Playing softball this spring, please come!
Update: All schools are on a two-hour delay this morning. All bus routes within city limits are on a two-hour delay. Bus pickup locations OUTSIDE of St. Johns City limits (on the Hunt/Concho and Sanders Routes) are cancelled for the day. These cancellations include the following pickup locations.
On the HUNT/CONCHO ROUTE:
CR 5270 & HWY 180
CR N 5223 MILE MARKER # 340
HWY 180 & 180 A TURN AROUND
HWY 180A & HWY 61 at OCCAC
CR 6030-1
On the SANDERS ROUTE
FIRE HOUSE AND CAR WASH
LITTLE SILVERSMITH RD
EAST MILL
WITCH WELL
MILE MARKER 341
MM #330
CR 6268 (On top of hill in cut off)
MILE MARKER 322
All schools are on a two-hour delay this morning.
All basketball games on Monday, January 8th, against Sanders have been canceled. They are rescheduled for January 29th. Please help us spread the word!
Update: The second half of the Sanders Bus Route (the pick-ups at East Mill, Little Silversmith, the fire house, and the car wash) is cancelled for the day. The first half of the Sanders Route (from Witch Wells all the way back into St. Johns is just on a two-hour delay).
All schools and bus routes will be on a two-hour delay this morning.
Dear St. Johns High School Community,
I recently found a note on my desk that said, “Accept what you can’t change. Change what you can’t accept.”
As principal at SJHS, I have truly enjoyed the students, the people that I work with, the challenges that this job presents, the personal growth, and the lessons that I have learned.
As time has gone on and as I’ve dedicated myself to this job, I’ve felt a growing distance from my family and my priorities and focus have shifted, which is something that I cannot accept. The combination of this challenging job, my responsibilities in areas of service in my church, other community service efforts, and most importantly, my responsibilities as a husband and father, have resulted in being unhappy and regrettably less present mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually for my family. It should not be so that my family gets the last of me, rather than the best of me. I talk often about focusing on what matters most and now it is time that I lived that principle.
After much contemplation, struggle, and prayer, I’ve realized that the best decision for me and my family is to step away from my position as High School Principal at the end of this current school year. For the remainder of this school year, I am committed to living Redskin Culture (to show up, give maximum effort, be respectful to all, and get involved).
For 2.5 years I have been striving for every other solution besides leaving a job that I love and students that I will miss greatly. Although I won't be in this role, I remain committed to our youth and our community. We are not moving, but will seek to contribute to the community in a variety of other ways.
I write this letter to thank all of you for your support, kindness, and collaboration. Mostly, thank you to the students I have been fortunate enough to get to know in this position. I am sorry about this decision, but I plead for your understanding. I will miss you students the most!
Sincerely,
Mr. Palmer
Congratulations to Tad Sanders, our Writing Student of the Week!
