Thanks for the funds
To the Bulletin: On behalf of the ARHS students and faculty, I would like to thank the community for their recent support of our effort to raise $20,000 to restore funds for our after school clubs, which were cut from this year's budget.
These dollars will enable us to provide students with a menu of 30 after-school clubs, which is the same number we were able to offer last year.
Extra-curricular activities are anything but peripheral to the success of a high school. In fact, they are central to it. For many students, after-school clubs are what sustain their interest in school. Clubs often provide students with motivation to persist in the face of academic challenges that they might otherwise be tempted to surrender to or avoid. Now that ours have been restored, I am confident in the high school's ability to support a wider range of students and their needs.
As well, I would like to publicly acknowledge all the time and effort invested in this project specifically and, in the high school generally, by the leadership of our Parent Center group. Kate Troast, Adrienne Levine, Arnie Alper, and Cynthia Gensheimer are a formidable team. Over the last two years, their energy and dedication has benefitted the high school in multiple ways. I'm very glad they all live in Amherst.
Lastly, the generosity of the Amherst Educational Foundation was also instrumental in the success of this fund-raising effort. My thanks to AEF for keeping us in their sights.
Mark Jackson
Amherst Regional High School principal
Amherst Regional Middle School interim principal
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