Updates concerning or relating to teaching and learning.
House burns to ground
The Ransom City and Nevada Township Fire Department was called out to a structure fire west of Ransom Tuesday night. It was a house. I […]
Education
Bobcat journos take second place in competition
Tuesday the winners of the Kansas State Fair Scholastic Press Corps competition were announced in a banquet ceremony in the Encampment Building on the Kansas […]
WPHS J-program produces first issue
It has finally happened. Western Plains Unified School District 106 has a newspaper. I was hired for this school year to start a full-fledged journalism […]
Students whine about not having to work
That’s it. It’s official. Today is most-likely my final day of sanity. It’s my fault, though. I shouldn’t have tried to do something nice. Sure, […]
Football game has scary moment
Friday night, my Western Plains High School Bobcat football team traveled to Otis-Bison High School to take on the Cougars. The Cougars are a state-ranked […]
Front Page Friday: New York Post
After a variable summer hiatus, it is time to get back into the swing of things. It is time to look at my favorite newspaper […]
WPHS football to play again
Friday the eligibility report was run once again at Western Plains High School in Ransom, Kan. Last week the WPHS Bobcat football team had to […]
WPHS football team forfeits Friday’s game
This hasn’t been a good week for the Western Plains High School football team, of which I am the head coach. We have lost our […]
Vogts adds another job to resume
I am employed at Western Plains Unified School District 106 in the high school. I don’t have just one job, though. Here is a quick […]
KSDE killing high school journalism
In high school, one of the most prolific ways students can begin to learn the wonderful craft of journalism is to participate in the production […]