The Board of Education is seeking your input on the new superintendent of schools for Mahomet Seymour CUSD #3. Please complete this survey.
https://bit.ly/MSSuptSearchSurvey
The survey closes on 2/4/22. Your time and feedback is appreciated!
The Mahomet Seymour Board of Education is seeking input on their search for a new superintendent. Please take this survey:
https://bit.ly/MSSuptSearchSurvey
The survey closes on 2/4/22.
Thank you!
Please take the Superintendent Search Survey: https://bit.ly/MSSuptSearchSurvey
The deadline to submit responses is February 4, 2022.
The Mahomet-Seymour Board of Education will hold it's Regular Board Meeting tonight at 7pm. We will be Streaming Live on Youtube. https://youtu.be/0h1VwJTyrLg
Mahomet-Seymour School District Residents: You received this post card in the mail earlier this week as part of the Bulldog Blueprint community engagement initiative. We invite and ask you to please take a few minutes to complete the survey. We appreciate your time and your feedback! Thank you!
The Mahomet-Seymour Board of Education will be holding a Study Session starting at 6:15pm tonight. We will be streaming live on YouTube. https://youtu.be/F3hL3B3yNs4
STEAM Night at Mahomet-Seymour High School
January 12, 2022
See you there!
Thank you to all of our substitutes today and thank you to all of our staff providing internal coverage! Teamwork makes the dream work!
The Mahomet-Seymour Board of Education will hold it's regular board meeting tonight starting at 6:30 with a tax levy hearing. We will be streaming on YouTube. https://youtu.be/D62-B9761_w
Sara Smith is the Country Financial Staff Member of the Month for November! Mrs. Smith is a math teacher at MSJH. Thank you to Kolby Jackson, Country Financial, for sponsoring this recognition of our outstanding staff.
Ben Herriott is the Country Financial Staff Member of the Month for December! Mr. Herriott is a 5th grade teacher at Lincoln Trail Elementary. Thank you to Kolby Jackson, Country Financial, for sponsoring this recognition of our outstanding staff!
The Mahomet-Seymour Board of Education will hold a Special Meeting tonight at 7pm. We will be streaming live on YouTube. https://youtu.be/Rt7mGg73Kkk
Good morning Bulldog Families,
Late last evening (12/2/21) we were made aware of a threat on social media of possible violence at Mahomet Seymour HS. Immediate action was taken, law enforcement was involved (both Mahomet Police Department and Champaign County Sheriff) and the situation was addressed with the student. The investigation is ongoing. I want to thank the students and others who brought this to our attention--reporting this type of situation is how it can be most quickly addressed and investigated.
Today, December 3, 2021, our schools are open. The decision to keep schools open is based upon the information that has been gathered, and it is our judgment that it is safe for schools to be open today.
Threats such as these are unnerving and very scary-- even more so given the recent shooting in Michigan. Please know this incident was and continues to be approached with the utmost of responsiveness and again, immediate action involving law enforcement was taken.
Thank you,
Dr. Lindsey A. Hall
Superintendent of Schools
Lincoln Trail Kids Club is hiring before school (6:45-8:00 am) and after school (2:30-6:00 pm) workers. Interested individuals should reach out to Dianne Bollman at dbollman@ms.k12.il.us. Children of Kids Club employees attend Kids Club for free.
The Mahomet-Seymour Board of Education will hold it's Regular Meeting tonight at 7pm. We will be streaming it live on YouTube. https://youtu.be/d_8XuAiIe1c
It's School Board Members Day in Illinois! Thank you to our 7 members of the Mahomet-Seymour BOE: Max McComb, Dr. Jeremy Henrichs, Ken Keefe, Meghan Hennesy, Justin Lamb, Sunny McMurry, Dr. Colleen Schultz. Your service, time and work on behalf of our families are appreciated!
As I write this post, today is World Kindness Day. This apparently has been a designated “day” since 1998, and admittedly, I haven't paid too much attention to it. Who can argue with kindness or debate its relative good and importance in our world? And, frankly, I’m sure I’ve thought in the past, why do we actually need a World Kindness Day? Unfortunately, the acts of being kind and gracious are being replaced with impulsive, angry, assumption-laden communication and actions -- we’re all seeing and experiencing more and more of this-and maybe engaging in it too. So, in the spirit of World Kindness Day, as well as the impending Thanksgiving Holiday, which is centered around gratitude, I offer some thoughts that you may or may not agree with.
Everyone has something going on in their lives which is sad, hard, challenging, frustrating or devastating. Everyone. Every. One. Despite social media posts portraying problem free lives---deep down we all know better, and we all know the situations we have occurring in our own lives. As the superintendent of schools in Mahomet-Seymour, you can all know that I receive and observe all types of communication between various parties--staff, parents, students, school board members, community members, etc. And, unfortunately, I have to share with you that it is getting more and more toxic. I choose to view this as a reflection of the difficult and controversial times we’ve endured since March of 2020 with COVID 19, combined with various issues of social unrest and controversy, all intersecting with “life” as we each know it, which itself sometimes, well, just stinks.
I ask everyone to remember that the Mahomet-Seymour Schools, is made up of people, which includes teachers, paraprofessionals, board members, administrators, bus drivers, custodians, educational office professionals, lunchroom supervisors, cooks, Kids Club employees and other invaluable individuals who serve our students-- and we all are human beings. All of us in Bulldog Nation have families, we have feelings, have children in our schools, we live, work and thrive in the community and work incredibly hard on behalf of the 3300 students in the Mahomet-Seymour Schools. And, we all have those “other things” going on in our lives which impact us in various ways. Do we make mistakes? Yes. Can we improve in various ways? Yes. Do we get things wrong sometimes? Yes. Do we who work in the schools, like you, get frustrated sometimes? Yes.
Communication that includes swearing, insulting, demands, calling for peoples’ jobs, acting on incomplete information and making assumptions-- are actions that are becoming all too commonplace and frankly don’t contribute positively to anything or solve any problems. I am writing this today because we can all do better and be better. I’ve not seen too many problems successfully navigated through emotional responses and impulsive reactions. We control very few things in life--but at the top of that list of things we do control and make conscious decisions about are our actions and attitude. How we react to an event determines the ultimate outcome of that event. (See the work of Tim Kight...excellent stuff!)
What if we waited before we communicated? Put a pause between the event and our reaction? Until a time when we’re more calm, less emotional, more able to listen, and able to enter a conversation in the spirit of problem solving and information gathering instead of assessing blame. I’d also suggest first going to the person or people who can solve the issue or problem or who has the most pertinent information. In some ways, the 21-22 school year is actually harder than last year for many people--I could list a host of reasons why. But this only reinforces the dire need for kindness, grace, seeking to understand and patience. We have many, many things for which to be thankful in the Mahomet-Seymour Schools. We are incredibly grateful for the community support, our outstanding staff, our amazing students and families, and for being able to live in such a beautiful area of Illinois. This message isn’t an admonishment or reprimand--it’s a reminder--that I also need. Our lives are all better when we slow down, pause, reflect and listen. I acknowledge this is difficult to do--especially when YOUR KID is at the heart of the matter. I’ve been there as a parent myself. But--we can do hard things! We tell our students this all the time-it is how we learn and grow. And, our kids are watching us. It is very possible and real to disagree in civil and respectful ways and it is also possible to reach consensus or compromise. Not everything is a battle to be fought and won--let’s remember that our top priority in our schools are those 3300 kids of ours--not the end game of adults being right and “winning”.
I’ll also remind folks that tomorrow, November 15, 2021, is School Board Member Day in Illinois. Want a tough job right now that is voluntary? This fits the bill. You may or may not agree with the actions and decisions of school board members. This isn’t unusual even in the best of times. There are many hours that go into serving on a board of education--this has been compounded over the course of COVID 19. However, our Board of Education is deserving of our “thank yous” for serving our school district under the most difficult of circumstances right now and for the past 20 months.
In closing, thank you for reading. We have an outstanding school district and community for so many, many reasons--we are all deserving of the kindness that we’re all capable of extending to one another. May World Kindness Day and all of the upcoming holidays be reminders of the why and the how.
Congratulations to the Bulldog Football team on an amazing season. While it came to an end today in Morton, there is now a legacy left by the 2021 season and a bright future for Bulldog Football. Our schools and community are proud of you!
Lincoln Trail Kids Club is hiring before school (6:45-8:00 am) and after school (2:30-6:00 pm) workers. Interested individuals should reach out to Dianne Bollman at dbollman@ms.k12.il.us.
Children of Kids Club employees attend Kids Club for free.
To veterans everywhere, thank you for your service and your sacrifice. Here is a link to the Mahomet Seymour Schools' Veterans Day Video.
https://youtu.be/R62UprF7p5I
