Friday Focus will be available tomorrow from 8-12 in the high school east room 5!
McLoud Family - Bus 14 will be running late this afternoon. Thank you.
Join us this evening!
Please take a moment to read the guidance for wearing costumes at the high school tomorrow. School appropriate only and no masks.
Pushing this back to the top! We would love to have you join us at the high school for our Title 1 night coming up on November 10th from 4:30 to 6:30!
Please help us stay connected.
McLoud Family - Bus 14 will be running late this afternoon. Thank you.
Internet and phones are back up. Thank you.
Phones and internet down on the high school campus at this time!
7 young men competed at State today, what a group effort representing McLoud XC!! Ryan Copeland 17:13.0, Logan Bailey 18:50.4, Jacob Dalyrmple 19:26.3, Liam Hutchins 20:06.5, Ryan Cole 20:19.3, Isak Whitten 20:56.5, Chay Guevara 21:56.7! Proud of their accomplishments!!
What a great day watching these young ladies compete at State!! They gave it their all!! Kennedy Armstrong 13:05.6, and Ella Crouch 13:56.2!
XC and Game Day experience. Come out and support our State Qualifiers at Carl Albert HS on Saturday afternoon.
Dr. Harper's class having a Physics lesson!
Link Crew's weekly Wednesday lesson was over Bullying Prevention for our Freshmen. Preparing and sharing a weekly lesson is what our mentors do each week.
FFA National Convention is going great! Fun opportunities, learning opportunities, and leadership opportunities!
A few photos from our FFA group while at National Convention! Mr. Flower's got to visit with the Oklahoma State FFA President!
Student Council traveled to Choctaw High School for their fall district convention. They spent the day with other student leaders from 14 other schools learning about their own leadership stories, sharing discussion and ideas, and having fun! This one of our biggest groups to get to attend districts, and they did a fantastic job as representatives of McLoud High School.
How much screen time is “too much”?
The answer gets complicated because screen use changes dramatically across childhood and adolescence, and not all screen time serves the same purpose.
A FaceTime call with Grandma is different from watching YouTube for three hours. Doing homework is different from scrolling TikTok until midnight. Playing a collaborative game with friends is different from using a phone alone for hours while feeling increasingly disconnected.
And for many adults, the reality is that pretty much all of our waking hours involve a device in some way. We work on screens, communicate through screens, shop on screens, consume entertainment on screens, read the news on screens, manage our finances on screens, and often reach for our phones whenever there is a moment of boredom or discomfort.
That makes the question of screen time increasingly complicated. We can't simply ask, “How many hours?”
We also have to ask:
Is your child sleeping enough?
Are they getting outside?
Are they maintaining friendships?
Can they tolerate being bored?
Are screens interfering with family life, school, or responsibilities?
Can they put the device down when asked?
And honestly, adults might want to ask themselves some of the same questions.
Screens are part of modern life. The goal isn't necessarily eliminating them. It's developing a relationship with technology that allows us to use it without allowing it to consume every available moment of our attention.
Because when a device is present from the moment we wake up until the moment we fall asleep, the question becomes less about whether we use screens and more about what the screens are replacing.
Thank you McLoud Alumni Association for your generous donation to projects at multiple school sites. We deeply appreciate your continued support.
A few random shots of the Redskin Regiment in Elgin today! We don’t know results yet!