Wildcat Family,
Three things this week, and then something I want to ask of you.
Tonight's game. If you were planning on the home opener, I am sorry. Valley Lutheran canceled on us. Tyler Murphy got on the phone and found our varsity a game rather than let them lose a Friday night, so they are in Bullhead City tonight against Mohave Accelerated. The bus left at noon and they will not be home until very late. If you are making that drive, thank you. Our chess team is on the road too, at a two day tournament at Alchesay.
If our website still shows a home game tonight, it should not, and we are fixing that.
We are going cashless at events, and here is why.
Starting soon, tickets and concessions at our events will be handled through GoFan rather than cash. I want to explain the reasoning instead of just announcing it.
Right now, every home event means someone counting a cash drawer before the game, someone counting it again after, and someone carrying a bag of money to the office. That is our staff, usually volunteers and usually the same handful of people, spending their evening on bookkeeping instead of watching the kids they came to watch. Then it all has to be reconciled by hand in the business office, which is more staff time on the back end.
Going digital means the money lands in the right account automatically, every event balances, and our people are in the stands instead of behind a cash box. It also means our records are clean, which matters more than it sounds like it does when the auditors come.
And we are working on an option for families without a card. We are looking at selling our own prepaid cards that could be purchased right at the front office of either school during the school day, so a student who wants to buy a drink at a game, or a family that would rather use cash, still can. I am not going to put in a system that shuts anybody out. If you have thoughts on that, tell me, because we are still building it. We are not currently ready to sell our own prepaid cards, but in the meantime, prepaid Visa cards are available at many locations in the county.
Now the ask. If you know a family thinking about Joseph City, send them our way.
Our enrollment has fallen about twenty five percent over recent years. In Arizona, school funding follows students, so every family that chooses us is not just another kid in a classroom. It is the difference between keeping programs and cutting them.
And we are worth choosing. This is a district where a student can take college classes through NAVIT and Northland Pioneer before they graduate, where the chemistry classes run real labs, where we have an agriculture program and a pool and an auditorium, and where class sizes are small enough that your kid is known by name by every adult in the building. Open enrollment is available. If you know somebody weighing their options, have them call us or come walk the building. I will show them around myself.
Monday we are home. Volleyball against Holbrook, three levels, starting at 4:00.
Come to that one. Our kids notice who shows up, and this town has always shown up.
Go Wildcats.
Shannon Harvilla
Superintendent
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It was easy to see the high silica content.
Students were also able to analyze real photographs of Mt. St. Helens before , during, and after the eruption.
We have found an opponent for our Varsity football team on Friday. They will be traveling to Mohave Accelerated at 7pm.
The youth flag football camp will be rescheduled for another date. Updates coming soon. We apologize for any inconvenience.
In a special Board Meeting, our Governing Board voted to change our Spring Break to March 15, 2027 – March 19, 2027 to align with NPC’s Spring Break for our students.
Due to this change, our Spring Parent Teacher Conferences will be March 11, 2027 with an early release for students that day.
The public calendar on jcusd.org reflects the changes.
(Thank you to my editor, John R.)
ATTENTION FANS -
We have two important updates regarding High School Athletics:
1. VOLLEYBALL - Mogollon is unable to host their volleyball games with us, Thursday, 8/27.
We will be hosting instead!
FR/JV/Varsity games tomorrow at 4/5/6pm.
2. FOOTBALL - Valley Lutheran has forfeited the Varsity Football game on Friday, 8/28.
We will not be hosting a football game this weekend.
Remember, our games are now cashless. Card only for tickets and concessions.
From AR reading to American Self-Government review stations, my students have been working hard! I’m so proud to see them collaborating, supporting one another, and preparing together for Thursday’s test. Their teamwork makes all the difference!
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Environmental Science is trying their hand at creating a perfectly balanced ecosystem.
Their goal is to have the perfect balance of water in the terrarium and to have the water cycle and nitrogen cycle be perfectly balanced and cycle continually.
The longest record for a sealed terrarium to continue to live is over 60 years.
Mrs. Bushman has one that is over 2 years old.
Biology looked at insects and then wrote a lab predicting things about them based on what they saw.
Identification of the insect was not part of the lab.
