The staff and students are SOE deserve KUDOS for their assistance in three categories.  First of all, students returned to school with a spirit of wearing the uniform without the former arguments.  Secondly, many students have returned with a spirit of taking on the challenge of success!  Yes, I have spotted several students that used to cut class, leave early, having altercations with several people and yet these students returned with a different mission this year.  When I spoke to the students they told me they were headed in a more positive direction.  That makes all of us extremely happy!  Dr. Edwards is driven towards increasing the freshman on track rate , our overall attendance and the academic preparation of our studemts for college and he wants the students to know that he appreciates the efforts of everyone working together to accomplish these goals!

Attendance has always been a problem for SOE!  We have worked for months to get our students to school every day, to reward them for coming to school and for being on time.  This year, we need to thank many divisions that have addressed this challenge.  Our freshmen divisions are really about the business.  Mr.  Bailey and Ms. Turner-Oden are neck in neck with positive results that have been outstanding.  For the most part, all of our freshmen divisions have good attendance and we want to recognize those efforts.  Mr. Lichtinger has had a couple of students that never reported which hindered his efforts to reach the 85-90% mark and we are aware of his efforts and the efforts of Ms. Murray also!

Our sophomores are stepping up to the plate with better digits!  We want to offer our sophomore divisions a special treat if they are able to reach 90% this month.  Remember, November only had 15 days.  Mr. Beer was edged out in October by a newcomer Ms. Finchum who surprised us all with her honorable mention placing for October.

 The Juniors had a repeat monthly winner.  Ms. Schuppener had an outstanding percentage in September and Mr. Swinney has continued the momentum!  Seniors, our dear seniors are stepping to the plate and we expect not less than 90% from at least two divisions during the month of November.  Mr. Matula is a 2nd month repeat winner of division attendance.  We look forward to the challenge of the other three divisions to get the banner for attendance for the short months of November and December.