ARHS Parent Mary Kiely is writing a guest column for the ARHS Parent News this month....

Today, Friday April 9th, 12 noon: Parent Center Brown Bag Lunch with Principal Mark Jackson.  Come on down to Room 13 at ARHS and get your questions answered or pass along your ideas for ARHS.

If you haven't caught a Hurricane baseball game lately, it's a bit different this year. Behind the backstop, on nights when senior Kevin Ziomek pitches, there are 20 or so scouts holding radar guns.

Maria Geryk, Interim Superintendent of Schools, is pleased to announce that Michael Hayes has been appointed to a permanent position as Amherst Middle School Principal. Having been a recent candidate in a different community which was very interested in his candidacy, we are particularly pleased that Mr. Hayes will remain in our community.

Dear ARHS Parents and Guardians:

On Monday morning, all ARHS students received a course verification form in their A-period class. This form lists the course selections for 2010-2011 that students made in February. These forms need to be signed by a parent and returned by today.

This is no ordinary art event! It's not an auction or a raffle, because everyone who buys a premium ticket goes home with a piece of art!

Are you an ARHS parent who loves community and our high school?  There's an opportunity to be more connected to ARHS, meet and work with great parents from the community, and help out.

Don't Miss the next Parent Center Brown Bag Lunch with Principal Mark Jackson, this Friday April 9th, 12-1 PM in Room 13 at the high school.

Good Works! Celebrates the good works of students in our community.
This week, Julia Rossen, a sophmore at ARHS, shares her experience in Guatemala.

The Work

Given all the talk about budgets and COLAs and salaries these last few months, here's a great poem delivered at the Bowery Poetry Club in 2005 about 'What Teacher's Make...'