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• MHS Campus Closed During Bus Arrivals and Pick-Ups

  Student Drop off and Pick Up Arrival of Students:

  • MHS Main Entrance will be closed from 7:00 am-7:20 am (student arrival) and again from 1:45 pm-2:10 pm (student dismissal). This is to protect our students, as well as add deeper security to our daily operations.
  • If you wish to drop off or pick up your student, you must enter through the Mahopac Falls Entrance and proceed to the top rear lot or guard booth to pick up your student.

   

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• Summer 2018 Reading for Grades 9-12 in 2018-2019

  June 2018

  Dear Parents,

  Students enrolled in all English courses are required to read additional works of literature beyond the books they choose for leisure time reading this summer. These books will serve as the focus of English instruction during the opening days of the 2018-19 school year.  Students will be asked to demonstrate their understanding of these books during the first weeks of school via reading and writing assessments.

  Please encourage your child to complete the reading in a timely and meaningful manner.  We ask that you monitor their reading, making sure they do not opt for shortcuts such as Cliffs Notes, Spark Notes and movie versions of the works.  Students who have successfully completed summer reading throughout high school typically demonstrate greater college and career readiness as well as higher SAT scores.

  Mahopac Public Library has been notified of this reading requirement. In addition, the Mahopac High School library offers some digital resources to assist students in the completion of the summer reading requirement.  

  Thank you for your support.  We anticipate a successful and rewarding academic year.

  Sincerely,

   The Mahopac High School English Department

   

   
  
  

  • Summer Reading 2018-2019.pdf

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• AUGUST REGENTS AND REVIEW SESSIONS

  August Regents Examinations:

  Session/Date	August 16	August 17
  AM Session	Algebra I English Chemistry	US History & Government Earth Science
  PM Session	Global History Algebra II	Geometry Living Environment

  
  Regents Review Sessions:

  Mahopac High School will offer a ten-day preparation course for all subjects listed below. The ten-day review sessions will take place at Mahopac High School and will be split into two sessions: 8am – 9:55am and 10am – 11:55am. This will allow students an opportunity to take more than one review session if they are retaking multiple exams in August. The ten-day session will take place on the following days: July 31-Aug 2, Aug 6-9 and August 13-15.

  These free, non-credit bearing review courses will be offered in the following subjects:
  Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II
  Global History, US History
  Living Environment, Earth Science, Chemistry
  English 11

  If you are interested in signing up for a Regents Review Session, please complete our Google Form by Wednesday, July 3, by accessing the link below. Please note that transportation is not provided for these sessions and that you will receive confirmation of the review session time and location by July 13.
  Review Session Registration 2018

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• MMS and MHS to See Updated School Day Schedules in 2018-2019 School Year

  Please click on the attached letter from Superintendent DiCarlo regarding important changes to the middle and high school schedules for the 2018-2019 school year. 

  • MMS MHS Schedule changes 2018 2019.pdf

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• "I Can't Stop": Schools Struggle with Vaping Explosion

  New York Times

  By Kate Zernike

  April 2, 2018

   The student had been caught vaping in school three times before he sat in the vice principal’s office at Cape Elizabeth High School in Maine this winter and shamefacedly admitted what by then was obvious.

  “I can’t stop,” he told the vice principal, Nate Carpenter.

  So Mr. Carpenter asked the school nurse about getting the teenager nicotine gum or a patch, to help him get through the school day without violating the rules prohibiting vaping.

  E-cigarettes have been touted by their makers and some public health experts as devices to help adult smokers kick the habit. But school officials, struggling to control an explosion of vaping among high school and middle school students across the country, fear that the devices are creating a new generation of nicotine addicts.

  In his four years at Cape Elizabeth, Mr. Carpenter says he can’t recall seeing a single student smoke a cigarette. But vaping is suddenly everywhere.

   

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• San Francisco Votes Upheld Ban on Flavored Vaping Products

  The measure is considered the strictest in the nation. Voters backed it despite an expensive advertising campaign funded by a major tobacco company.

   By Jan Hoffman

  June 6, 2018

  • Despite a $12 million ad blizzard by a giant tobacco company, voters in San Francisco resoundingly supported a new ban on the selling of flavored tobacco products, including vaping liquids packaged as candies and juice boxes, and menthol cigarettes.
  • The measure, known as Proposition E, is said to be the most restrictive in the country, and health groups predicted it could serve as a model for other communities.
  • The vote had been expected to be close, but the final tally was 68 percent to 32 percentin support of the ban. Those results reflected a big miscalculation by R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, which had saturated the city with multimedia ads in four languages, likening the ban to Prohibition and invoking a black market crime wave.
  • “They had a strategic chance there to show that they are actually walking the walk and talking the talk about moving smokers to nonsmoker tobacco products,” said Eric Lindblom, a Georgetown Law professor and former Food and Drug Administration tobacco official. “Instead they took this scorched earth approach, trying to eliminate the entire flavor ban. They failed and now other jurisdictions can say, ‘Why should we compromise?’”

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