Schools

As a steady rain came down on the Live Oak High School campus on March 14, hundreds of students gathered in the commons area to honor the 17 victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting.

Morgan Hill Police arrested an Ann Sobrato High School student in connection with a suspicious note found on campus March 13.

Authorities determined there was no threat to students and staff at Ann Sobrato High School after a suspicious note was found on campus this morning, according to Morgan Hill Unified School District.

Four years ago, students, staff and faculty within the Gilroy Unified School District collaborated with more than 15 law enforcement agencies to help produce a “Run, Hide, Defend” training video.

Morgan Hill Unified School District’s superintendent sent out a March 7 letter to all “employees, parents, guardians and students” regarding the district’s strategy to allow for student participation in planned school walkouts and protests.

At 72 years old and one week removed from being struck by a car while walking his dogs on La Crosse Drive, Morgan Hill Unified School District Trustee Gino Borgioli was determined to attend the March 6 meeting.

With the Morgan Hill Unified School District’s board of education set to convene March 6 for a regularly scheduled meeting at the 15600 Concord Circle headquarters, three of the seven board members will participate via teleconference for varying reasons.

A board of education trustee for Morgan Hill Unified School District is in the hospital Feb. 27, recovering from serious injuries one day after being hit by a car while walking his two dogs in the Paradise Valley neighborhood.

Live Oak High School student Sarah Ann Leal recently placed fifth in Public Speaking at the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) Bay Section Leadership Conference, according to the chapter’s advisor.Leal was in competition with some powerful Bay Area schools such as Monte Vista, Lynbrook, Homestead and Dougherty Valley.Meanwhile, the local FBLA chapter delivered 528 teddy bears to all first graders in the Morgan Hill Unified School District for Valentine’s Day.Member Kai Leong spearheaded the special Valentine’s Day deliveries to Jackson Academy of Math & Music, El Toro Elementary School and Nordstrom Elementary School.

Students at the Charter School of Morgan Hill celebrated Valentine’s Day in a unique way Feb. 14 as they successfully collected enough cans to go around a 1/8-mile track for a schoolwide “We LOVE our community” canned food drive.The canned food will be given to Second Harvest Food Bank for distribution to those in need.Students used critical thinking skills to calculate how many cans it would take to go around the 1/8-mile track, and then demonstrated personal and social responsibility with their donations, according to CSMH staff. They also were given the challenge of collecting enough canned food donations to do so.“I am happy to report that our CSMH community was able to demonstrate how much we care about our larger community by meeting the challenge of donating enough cans to go around our 1/8-mile track,” said Diana Gill, CSMH Community Liaison and Outreach Coordinator.