Until Congress passed the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974, women couldn't get credit cards in their own name. Legal work done by late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg laid the foundation for the Equal Credit Opportunity Act.
Tomorrow is our STAAR reward party!!! #2710
Thank you to all the parents and students who came out tonight for our Open House! We enjoyed meeting our incoming seventh graders and expect next year to be a great one!
Sally Ride became the first woman in space on June 18, 1983, when she flew on the space shuttle Challenger.
Mrs. Pullen's Science classes had their first egg hatch today! Come welcome our newest member of CMMS at our Passport to CMMS TONIGHT!
The 19th amendment, which granted women the right to vote, was signed into law on August 26, 1920. But at the time, a number of other laws prohibited Native American women, Black women, Asian American women, and Latinx women from voting, among others. It wasn't until 1924 that Native women born in the United States were granted citizenship, allowing them to vote, according to PBS.
Geraldyn "Jerrie" Cobb was the first woman to pass astronaut testing in 1961.
But she wasn't allowed to travel to space due to her gender. She testified on Capitol Hill in 1962, saying, “We women pilots who want to be part of the research and participation in space exploration are not trying to join a battle of the sexes,” according to the New York Times. “We see, only, a place in our nation’s space future without discrimination.”
Our middle school percussionists performed last night at the Second Annual Night of Percussion at the new high school auditorium. Our groups played individually and then everyone played together for the grand finale - Crazy Train! Thank you Mr. T and all of our percussionists.
Come to CMMS from 5:30-6:15 then 8th graders head to the High School for the Freshman Showcase at 6:30.
The 2023 Women's History Month theme is Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories. This year, the National Women's History Alliance "will encourage the recognition of women, past and present, who have been active in all forms of media and storytelling including print, radio, TV, stage, screen, blogs, podcasts, news, and social media."
Boys MS track practice is canceled this afternoon to give athletes a day to recover. NO track this afternoon.
The Wyoming Territorial legislature gave every woman the right to vote in 1869, according to History.com. They elected the country's first female governor, Nellie Tayloe Ross, in 1924.
Coach Beans Principal of Applied Engineering's 4th period class took to a Sphero obstacle course in The library created by Mrs Whitlock. Students had to manually drive the sphero course in the least amount of time w/out course penalties one day and then turn around and us block code to program their Sphero to autonomously drive the course.
Women's organizations, including the National Women's History Alliance, campaigned yearly to recognize Women's History Week. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter declared the week of March 8 Women's History Week across the country.
Passport to CMMS.....come and meet your students teachers and see what we have been working on all year. Passport is an "Open House". Come take a trip and get your students Passport stamped! Current 7th & 8th graders from 5:30-6:30. Incoming 7th graders 6:30 - 7:30 after your Intermediate dance. Concessions will be available for your trip!
An education task force in Sonoma County, California kicked off Women's History Week in 1978 on March 8, International Women's Day, according to the National Women's History Alliance. They wanted to draw attention to the fact that women's history wasn't really included in K-12 school curriculums at the time.
Cheer tryouts today after school today have been cancelled.
MS track practice is canceled for this afternoon due to impending inclement weather. Students will be released @ 3:20 pm.
February 28, 1909 marked the first Woman's History Day in New York City. It commemorated the one-year anniversary of the garment workers' strikes when 15,000 women marched through lower Manhattan. From 1909 to 1910, immigrant women who worked in garment factories held a strike to protest their working conditions.
Case and his brother Colt showed their Ag Mechanics project at the San Antonio Livestock Show this weekend. The boys received another Blue Ribbon and won 2nd place in their class.
