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Sequoia High School to host regionals; school updates include ag-program plans and watch of proposed state cell-phone bill
Summary
Sequoia superintendent Terry Eustace told the council Sequoia will host district and regional basketball games; he updated the council on a new agricultural program (grant applications and potential facilities) and said the district is monitoring a proposed Oklahoma cell-phone restriction that passed committee.
Terry Eustace, superintendent at Sequoia High School, told the council Sequoia will host district and regional basketball contests and summarized school activities and program development.
Eustace said Sequoia will play Tulsa Webster on Feb. 22 and will host regional games the following week, with teams arriving for games scheduled Thursday–Saturday. He reported the girls’ and boys’ teams were ranked in the top 15, and that Sequoia had junior-high wrestling and speech-and-debate competitors attend recent state events.
Eustace updated councilors on a planned Sequoia agricultural program: the school and Cherokee Nation signed an agreement with the National Association of Agricultural Fairs (referred to in the meeting as NAAF) that opens grant opportunities. Eustace said Sequoia and Cherokee Nation can apply separately for grants to fund program buildings and operations and that he expects the program to pursue collaboration with conservation, the Natural Resources Conservation Service, and Cherokee Nation real estate to identify a site where dormitory students could keep and show animals. He said the job posting to staff the program was open and interviews were expected to begin ahead of a July start.
On state policy, Councilor Mike Dobbins asked whether Eustace had updates on a proposed Oklahoma City cell-phone ban. Eustace said the bill had passed out of committee but that language changes typically continue during the legislative process; he added that Sequoia follows state accreditation requirements but also maintains accreditation with other bodies (the school’s status with accreditation agencies affects which state requirements can apply).
Councilors asked about application timelines for Sequoia admission; Eustace said the school will host an eighth-grade day in March and that applications for returning students would go online after that day while new applicants would still use paper forms.
