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Whooping cough outbreak raises questions about vaccinations

Last updated Monday, October 31, 2011 - 11:26pm

OGDEN -- Some parents who choose not to vaccinate their children are feeling frustrated and angry about the way they were notified of a whooping cough outbreak in a city school last week.

More than 65 Mount Ogden Junior High School students were sent home for being underimmunized or on immunization exemption -- for personal, religious or medical reasons -- on Oct. 24, when one student case of whooping cough was confirmed.

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Whooping cough outbreak sends kids home at Mount Ogden

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, October 28, 2011 - 9:31pm

OGDEN -- Unvaccinated Mount Ogden Junior High students will have a longer-than-expected break from school because another student and a school employee have been confirmed as having whooping cough.

Earlier this week, 65 unimmunized Mount Ogden students were sent home for at least five days after the school was notified that one of its students had been diagnosed with whooping cough.

Because of the additional cases, the school is considered to have an outbreak of whooping cough, said Glen Kinney, Weber/Morgan Health Department epidemiologist.

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Whooping cough scare sends 65 Ogden students home

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - 11:16pm

OGDEN -- Sixty-five unimmunized students from Mount Ogden Junior High School were sent home for at least five days Monday morning after the school was notified that one of its students had been diagnosed with whooping cough.

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Ogden School District plans 3 public events

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, September 19, 2011 - 11:47pm

OGDEN -- The Ogden School District is inviting the community to three public events this week.

Everyone is invited to meet and greet new Superintendent Brad Smith and Peggy Dooling-Baker, the new principal at Mound Fort Junior High School, today at 6:30 p.m. at the school, 1396 Liberty Ave.

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New district superintendent shakes up staff at Ogden schools

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, September 12, 2011 - 11:28pm

OGDEN -- Moving vans pulled up to Ogden schools to cart away office contents of top administrators who had introduced themselves to students just weeks earlier at start-of-school assemblies.

New Ogden School District Superintendent Brad C. Smith on Monday sent out a memo outlining the immediate reassignment of three principals, three assistant principals, a coordinator and an instructional coach.

The changes involve all of the district's mainstream high schools and all of its junior high schools, as well as one undisclosed elementary school.

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AYP report failures for Ogden schools

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, September 8, 2011 - 11:37pm

A previous posting of Ogden School District schools failed to make Adequate Yearly Progress, based on a Utah State Board of Education report, mistakenly included schools that were granted AYP waivers because they made significant progress from the previous year.

The list that follows is updated.

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(Courtesy photo) The Mount Ogden Junior High Cheer Squad is no more — rather, it will be referred to as the Mount Ogden Junior High Spirit Squad because Ogden School District does not have cheer squads at the junior high school level. The district recently set out rules, allowing to squad to keep functioning.

Rah? Nah! Mount Ogden Junior High team to be spirit squad, not cheerleaders

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, August 29, 2011 - 11:02pm

OGDEN -- There will be no cheers or stunt flips to honor the Ogden School District, at least not coming from the 18-member Mount Ogden Junior High Cheer Squad.

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Matt Goff poses for a portrait in his publication class at Mount Ogden Junior High School on Wednesday.

Junior high student makes a splash producing videos

Rachel J. Trotter, Standard-Examiner correspondent

Last updated Sunday, May 29, 2011 - 11:12pm

OGDEN -- When Matt Goff was in eighth grade he became fascinated with movie making and editing in his publications class at Mount Ogden Junior High School.

He recently finished ninth grade and has taken that fascination to a whole new level.

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(NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner) On Thursday at the Ogden School District offices in Ogden, Utah Education Association President Sharon Gallagher-Fishbaugh cheers with teachers and parents gathered for a rally to protest the Ogden School Board’s refusal of terms requested in teacher negotiations.

Ogden district teachers rally, want signed C-O-N-T-R-A-C-T

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner correspondent

Last updated Thursday, May 26, 2011 - 11:39pm

OGDEN -- With some parental support during a rally at the Ogden School District's offices Thursday afternoon, 200 to 300 teachers showed their unhappiness at teaching a full school year with no signed contract.

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Mount Ogden Junior High School honor roll

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Last updated Thursday, April 21, 2011 - 11:23am

9th grade

4.0: Morgan Adalid, Jeremy Andelin, Olivia Annis, Madison Ballif, Deborah Belnap, Alex Bingham, Lindsey Bray, Catherine Carabine, Nathan Child, Nicholas Eccles, Emric Egbert, Sarah Feeny, Rachelle Florence, Shawn Haimovich, Sarah Heiner, Allison Hyde, Lauren Kunzler, Jenica Lilly, Sydney Muse, Alison Niebauer, Champagne Perry, Alex Peterson, Jodi Pham, Zachary Pickett, Angelica Precite, Michael Richardson, Katelyn Shaw, Justin Sheets, Gregory Walker, Sabrina Wood

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(ERIN HOOLEY/Standard-Examiner) The Grim Reaper visited Mount Ogden Junior High School in Ogden on Monday, handing out “death tags” to kids, who then all stood up during an assembly to illustrate the number of young Utahns who die each month from drug- and alcohol-related causes. This week is Red Ribbon Week, an anti-drug campaign.

Grim Reaper illustrates for students the deadliness of drugs

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner correspondent

Last updated Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - 12:05am

OGDEN -- One hundred Utah adolescents die every month from drug- and alcohol-related causes.

Mount Ogden Junior High School resource officer William Farr wanted to bring that point home to students at the junior high as it kicked off Red Ribbon Week -- an anti-drug campaign week -- on Monday.

During lunch, Patrick Danley, the 6-foot-8 Colors of Success teacher, dressed as the Grim Reaper and gave "death certificate lanyards" to 100 students.

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Princess put to the test as Ogden district puts on show

Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Tuesday, March 29, 2011 - 2:57pm

Theater students from four schools are coming together for one production as the Ogden School District's musical theater department presents its spring production "Once Upon a Mattress."

The musical, based upon the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale "The Princess and the Pea," tells the story of a feisty princess whose royal highness is put to the test by a cranky queen.

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Junior high to present ‘Beauty’

Standard-Examiner correspondent

Last updated Wednesday, January 26, 2011 - 7:41pm

Students will perform the junior Broadway production of “Beauty and the Beast” Feb. 3, 4, 5 and 7 at Mount Ogden Junior High School, 3260 Harrison Blvd. at 7 p.m. Feb. 3 and running the 4, 5 and 7. Tickets are $6 for adults and$4 for students, senior and educators. Punch passes may be purchased for $20 for a four-punch pass. Students have been rehearsing the show for several months.

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