Want to join our team? Join us on Tuesday, October 15 in Dunbar Auditorium from 4-6 p.m. for a job fair!
Some of our students honor our principals for National Principals Month! https://youtu.be/oNCbzlNgWQo
Our annual flu clinics will be held at all MHPS campuses next week. These clinics are conducted by the Arkansas Department of Health. Packets have been distributed to every student, but if you need a copy, you may contact your child's school nurse to get one. Please fill the packet out completely and send it back to your child's nurse before the clinic date.
Happy National Custodians Day!
Bomber Update - https://youtu.be/fbkqUfM47L8
Mr. Helmert also recommends visiting this site for more information about our standard response protocol: https://iloveuguys.org
Last Wednesday our staff received their Bomber t-shirts from Arvest Bank. This has become an annual tradition that EVERYONE looks forward to! We appreciate Arvest Bank so much. It's always fun to see familiar faces when they deliver the shirts as well! Thank you!!!!!
From EAST Facilitator Audrey Plumlee at Hackler Intermediate School:
"My 5th grade EAST Program invited several veterans to come in today and answer questions from how life was in the service to how we could improve our Veteran's Day Program. We had Thomas Stickles Jr., Dan Hall, Delaney Thomas and Krysi Shimmel (who joined us Via Zoom from Maine).
Mr. Dan Hall showed us a LIFE magazine from July 2, 1965. On the front cover of the magazine there are several Marines carrying a wounded soldier. He is the soldier right under the letter E in Life, he has a mustache and is not wearing a hat. He talked to the students about how the picture was taken.
Mr. Thomas Stickles brought a MRE for the students to see what they ate. At the very end, Mr. Stickles and Mr. Thomas demonstrated how the MRE heats up. They allowed the students to take turns coming to the table to inspect and smell what the Chili Mac MRE looked like.
We are so grateful for all four of these men and women. They had so much to offer our students. It was a great honor for us all to be in the same room with them."
Homecoming 2024 Info!
This week Mrs. Dewey and Mrs. Rauls highlight the MHHS White Coat Internship Program. https://youtu.be/39hmML6J-Oc
MHPS Parents/Guardians,
Today our administration was notified that some students were sharing a social media post that included a threat of violence toward an organization or school called “MHS.” This post circulated through a number of local students and was eventually reported to our administration. While this post did not refer to Mountain Home or our schools, we still reported it to the authorities immediately.
Our police department began tracing the post, and in the meantime similar “MHS” threats started cropping up around the country. In fact, a 13-year-old girl was arrested in California for making a “MHS” threat in her district today.
Later in the day we received reports that students told their parents that our buildings were on lockdown. I want to clarify that at no point during the day were we on lockdown. Generally speaking – unless it would cause additional risk in the moment – we will notify you promptly if we are placed in a status of lockdown, shelter, hold, evacuation, etc. for any reason.
This afternoon we received another report of a Snapchat warning classmates. It was not a threat and did not identify MHPS, but we reported it, and our local authorities are looking into it as well.
Please continue to report threats or questionable posts. Make sure the appropriate people – authorities and school administration – have this information so action can be taken quickly.
Thank you,
Allyson Dewey
This morning we received notification of another social media threat of violence. This post listed "MHS" as the school in question. While this post did not appear to be targeted toward our district, we did pass this information along to authorities the moment we received it. Law enforcement has confirmed the post did not originate here, and it appears to be referring to a completely different school/district.
Please talk to your children about the importance of not spreading these threats but immediately reporting them to an adult. Re-sharing these posts rather than reporting them is never the answer. We know these possible threats are concerning and scary, and it is important for the proper authorities to be notified immediately.
Thanks to the HHS Academy at MHHS for helping to share information about The Call!
Bus 62 is currently delayed at Nelson-Wilks-Herron. We are hopeful that the driver will soon be able to continue the route. Thank you.
Bomber Update: Mrs. Dewey addresses this week's social media threat and shares advice for families and students from Mr. Matt Sutton, the district's School-Based Mental Health Coordinator.
https://youtu.be/dxjwW2UbOQ4
To our families and community members,
Law enforcement agencies have been hard at work on the social media threat issue since it was first reported last night, and now I have been notified that the police department has no evidence to suggest this threat originated locally.
While this information does provide some relief, I understand that the original threat post did indicate a date of September 10 for the act of violence. With that in mind, I have decided to excuse student absences again for Tuesday, Sept. 10. However, I want to assure you all that we will have a number of additional safety measures in place tomorrow and in the coming days and weeks.
Tomorrow – and then again on numerous other occasions in the near future – you might see open air searches being conducted by K9s. You might also see staff members who serve on the building crisis teams helping to monitor our campuses. There will be additional law enforcement presence on and around our buildings for the next several days. Some of the law enforcement members will be in uniform while others may be in plain clothes. Please keep in mind that as we implement these crisis measures, there might be specific protocols we follow that we do not make public. We will continue to conduct additional security measures behind the scenes in an effort to best protect our students and staff.
For now I want to assure you that our local PD will continue to follow up on every lead they receive, so if you have any information that might be helpful to the investigation, please call MHPD at 870-425-6336.
Thank you for your continued patience and understanding as we navigate this challenge.
Allyson Dewey
MHPS Families,
Thank you for your patience and understanding as we work through this social media threat situation. I’ve told our families before that while I am an educator, I am also a parent, and so when situations like these arise, I look at things through multiple lenses.
We all had difficult decisions to make this morning when it came to student attendance. While I am confident that our students on campus are safe today, I do understand those who wanted more information before sending their children to school.
At this time I do not know how much information we will learn throughout the day, but I can confidently say that local law enforcement, state police, and the FBI are all involved and are taking this very seriously.
You have likely seen similar stories from around the country today, and so of course it is possible that this is just some sort of hoax, spoof, or social media trend. However, while this may be the case, we are treating it as a credible threat that must be investigated thoroughly.
I want you to know as a school administrator and as a mom, my heart is with each family. I hope you’ll use this challenging situation as a conversation starter with your kids. I wish we never had to have these conversations, but the reality is that these things do happen, just like last week in Georgia. We have to continue to communicate the gravity of situations like these. Even if this is just a hoax of some sort, there absolutely will be consequences for those responsible, and people who participate in this kind of behavior will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
I will continue to update you as I learn more, and I am grateful for your support as we navigate a situation that is completely unacceptable.
Thank you,
Allyson Dewey
Bomber Update: Mrs. Dewey discusses some important information ahead of tonight's football game in Harrison, and she's joined by two local celebrities! https://youtu.be/DyEX_c6tPDU
Don't miss this Bomber Update featuring two special guests! https://youtu.be/sad5DHMIL_g
No school on Monday, September 2 in observance of Labor Day.
We're doing some simple dress up days at all grade levels next week for BEAT HARRISON WEEK! Here's the list! All are welcome to participate!
