A Jog-a-thon Down Memory Lane
If you are a Jenks Lifer, or even just a student who frolicked in the hallowed halls of a Jenks Public Elementary School, you’ve done the Jogathon. A day out of the year where logoed shirts are passed out beforehand, and bananas and apples are passed out after. Somewhere along the way in the middle, kids are unleashed like the running of the bulls. But instead of the narrow streets of Pamplona Spain, grades k-4 run the gravel track, getting a mark on their hand for every lap they run.
Bomb Threats Explode Across Union and Tulsa Public Schools Districts
It's been a month since Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters retweeted a Tik-Tok by a Union librarian that snowballed into threats of violence towards the teacher and the school itself, with even more still pouring in. After spreading to other Union schools, as well as the Tulsa Public Schools (TPS) district, Union’s 8th grade center received a new threat on the morning of September 14th, over three weeks after the initial threat.