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Wednesday, December 04, 2019

Fwd: Obama Academy Information

This newsletter has an interesting mention about the swim team schedule. I blog about it at the Dystopia blog. See: https://dystopia.4rs.org/two-major-policies-changed-for-this-years-2019-20-obama-varsity-swimmers/

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From: Barack Obama Academy of International Studies

Nothing in life is so complicated that it cannot be achieved by discipline and hard work.

OBAMA ACADEMY INFORMATION

December 2, 2019

Seniors

See the bottom of this email for important information.

8th Grade Families!!!!!

Friday Dec 6 is the deadline to submit your magnet application to be able to return to Obama for 9th grade.

PTSA EVENTS

Zumba Classes

December 10, Tuesday, 4pm: BHS presents Zumba in the Obama cafeteria

December 17, Tuesday, 3pm: BHS presents Zumba in the Obama cafeteria

PTSA Meeting

December 10, Tuesday, 6:30pm: Obama PTSA meeting in the Obama library. Featuring Dr. Dwyer, Chief of Data for PPS.

PTSA PARTY

December 17, Tuesday, 5-7pm: Obama PTSA invites you to join us for an Ugly Sweater Happy Hour at Primanti's!

5491 Penn Ave. (Garfield) Pittsburgh, PA 15206

5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Ugliest Sweater Prize, Appetizers and Giveaways! Hope you will join us! Adults Only

High School Swim Team Schedule

M: 6-7:20; 3:30-5:00 (morning and afternoon)

T: 3:30 - 5:00 (afternoon only)

W: 6:00-7:20 (morning only)

R: 3:30 - 5:00 (afternoon only)

F: 6:00-7:20 (morning only)

GRADUATION INFORMATION

Graduation Practice

Friday, June 12 /11:30-1:00

@ Peterson Event Center

Graduation

Sunday, June 14 / 3:00-4:00 p.m.

@ Peterson Event Center

Barack Obama Academy of International Studies

Phone 412-529-5980

Fax 412-622-5983

https://www.pghschools.org/ibworld2

Barack Obama Academy of International Studies | 515 N Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15206

Monday, November 13, 2017

Aquatics and Pittsburgh Public Schools

PPS Community Schools v2.0 from Mark Rauterkus

Tip: You might want to view this on the SlideShare site so it can easily go to full screen.

Ask for the PDF or Keynote if you want parts or all of it.

Sunday, March 05, 2017

Update for swimming

Noah Jamison, 10th grade, Obama, was officially notified that he has qualified for the PIAA Swim Class AA Championships at Bucknell starting March 15, 2017. He qualified with his fast performances in both the 200 IM and 500 free at the recent WPIAL meet. Noah set a new school record in the 500 free, 4:54.01, bettering a previous record from more than four years ago that was held by Erik Rauterkus, the oldest son of Head Coach Mark Rauterkus. This year marks the ninth consecutive year Coach Rauterkus has led PPS athletes to the state championships, and in 2017, three athlete get to compete: Jamison, Sead Niksic, 11, and Amilia Niksic, 9. The later two were automatic qualifiers. Sead is seeded second in both the 100 fly and 100 back.

More at http://Swim.CLOH.org

Friday, September 09, 2016

Should frame this as they seldom got the attention required

This is a pool permit that was signed. Notice, I put it into the PPS school principal on 9-12-16. Meanwhile, it was marked as received on 12-15-16.

We had problems with permits and I wanted to be sure we'd be able to swim over the break.

In 2017, the same problems were revisited. Central office helped resolve the matter, again.

Thursday, March 31, 2016

This is the type of support some in PPS give to PPS Summer Dreamers

In spring 2016, I put in a pool permit to get ready for Summer Dreamers so that our summer staff can work with the existing kids at Obama at the pool -- and work with a renewal of swim skills with the kids I coached in past years as part of PPS Summer Dreamers.

The permit was denied. The denial says, "NO SUMMER DREAMER STUFF."

I wanted to have ONE practice on Wednesdays from April to June.

Go figure.

Futhermore, in future years this permit would be considered a blessing -- because there is an ANSWER. MOST of the time, interactions with PPS administrators have no replies. Silence.