Students arriving to school on Monday were greeted by broken windows and shards of glass on the floor of the HUB. According to a post on the MTHS Facebook page, the vandalism took place just before 2 a.m. on the morning of Saturday, April 27. In addition to the HUB, the windows of at least [...]
More than 3,500 people have died in the United States because of gun violence since the Dec. 14 slaughter of 20 schoolchildren and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut. Even with these preventable deaths happening every single day in America, the U.S. Senate this last Wednesday voted to kill every single effective gun [...]
For the second year in a row, MTHS was named a “Mix It Up Model School” by the Teaching Tolerance project of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). MTHS is among 63 schools nationwide to receive the title that recognizes “exemplary efforts to foster respect and understanding among students and throughout [the] campus during the [...]
More than 200 people crowded the HUB inside MTHS Saturday night to share stories and remember the life of Dianna Hanson. The 2007 Mountlake Terrace graduate was killed by a lion March 6 at the California wildlife sanctuary where she was an intern. She was 24 years old. “She was such an active person with [...]
Growing up in the suburbs and being surrounded by shopping malls, cul-de-sacs and lots of cars, it’s easy to yearn for that small town American life that seemed to disappear long ago. Well, it still exists and it’s in Edmonds. Located just west of Mountlake Terrace, and perfectly framed by the Olympic Mountain range and [...]
Police activity south of the MTHS campus sparked a brief lockdown during second period early Friday. According to The Hearld, police officers were searching for a suspect in a stolen vehicle case. The “soft lockdown,” which was in place from approximately 8:30 a.m. to 9:05 a.m. prompted school officials to lock all exterior doors of [...]
On Tuesday, March 12 before second period an MTHS senior, Benjapon Hummel Schluger, 18, is alleged to have inappropriately touched a female student in a classroom. According to Principal Greg Schwab, after the alleged altercation, all the students who were involved were brought into the main office and put into separate rooms to be interviewed [...]
Dianna Hanson, a 2007 graduate, was killed by a lion at the Northern California wildlife park where she was an intern. She was 24 years old. Hanson was found dead by investigators in an enclosure and the lion was shot dead by sheriff deputies. “Dianna was just a really outstanding young woman at our school,” [...]
Behavior coordinator Anthony Williams resigned from his job on Jan. 29. His resignation followed a long period of absence, which began in mid-December. Since Williams’ period of absence began, students and staff members have been kept in the dark about why he left MTHS. “What I can say at this point is that Mr. Williams [...]
Williams was investigated over sexual comments
According to an article on the front page of Sunday’s Daily Herald, it is now known that former student behavior coordinator and coach for numerous sports, Anthony Williams resigned over the fallout over an investigation about inappropriate comments he made to students and staff members. The article states that several teachers, students, and other staff [...]
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