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BULLDOG Bulletin KEEPING YOU INFORMED
Congratulations To All!
Thank you for a successful year and best wishes to our graduates and the entire Bulldog Family School, Bulldog Virtual Academy, and Choices High School. As a Canton City graduate, it was an honor to gather all of our graduates together and celebrate them as a Bulldog Family.
Jeff Talbert, Superintendent
Congratulations Bulldog Nation! We made it through the 2021-2022 school year — a year that proved to be much tougher than we thought it would be back in August when we all thought the pandemic would be in our rearview mirror. The resiliency displayed by our staff, students, families, and community is nothing short of amazing and continues to make me both proud and
humbled to have the opportunity to serve as superintendent. The end of each school year is a time when we look back and admire the fruits of our labor, and despite all of the hurdles we faced, we have a lot to celebrate. Let’s recap a few highlights: On May 24 we held the first All-City Graduation honoring 490 graduating seniors from McKinley High
Collectively our students earned over one million dollars in college scholarships and grants and earned nearly 5,000 college credit hours and 96 associate degrees. This was all done while holding down full/ part-time jobs, participating in multiple extracurricular and co-curricular activities, and having their 10th and 11th grade school years shortened by a pandemic. That resiliency will pay dividends to them going forward. We want to congratulate all of our graduates and wish them the best in their future endeavors.
STEAMM Academy Students Connect with Cleveland Meteorologist STEAMM 6th Graders had a chance encounter with Betsy Kling from WKYC Channel 3 News!
This year, we witnessed excellence in so many facets of our district. From athletes competing at the state level to Speech and Debate team members hitting the national Continued On Page 6 u
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A Twenty Year Memorial Day tradition continues Students gain an appreciation for soldiers’ sacrifices By Jeanie Bowling, Principal
On the Tuesday prior to Memorial Day, Canton City Students from the Arts Academy @ Summit continued an important tradition. For the past 20 years, Mrs. Jennifer Pisani and her students have planted flags at the grave sites of our Stark County Veterans interred at North Lawn Cemetery. This year, students from Mrs. Crone’s and Mrs. Pisani’s fifthgrade classes joined veterans and parent volunteers in this honorable event of remembrance. The students learned a great deal
about the various wars veterans served in and how they are so notably represented. “The multitude of military men and women who have passed and are remembered by loved ones and members of the community was evident and inspiring,” said Mrs. Pisani. Afterward, the students joined the veterans for a luncheon at the American Legion Post 44. Their Continued On Page 6 u
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Students pose at the American Legion Hall.
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