Elma High School

Elma High School is a public secondary institution located in Elma, Washington located about 30 miles west of Olympia the capital city of Washington. Elma High School serves rural communities of McCleary, Elma and Satsop. The school mascot is the Eagle.

Television station

The home of Eagles TV, on Comcast channel 26 serving Grays Harbor Country. This TV station is provided as a public service by the Video Productions and TV Broadcasting students of Elma High School. Programming is provided 24 hours a day, seven days week, 365 days a year by using computer automation.

The students use to produce live showings in the mornings. Though, due to recent "inappropriate" occasions that occurred, the station was forced to record their showings and play it after editing.

As It goes now the student director of Eagles TV is Scott Murray, The Main Host is Trisha Martin, The World News Correspondent is Zach Shaw, the sports correspondent is Canaan Stenek, and the Weatherman is Mark Powell.

Eagles TV can be viewed at roughly 9:24 am on weekdays consuming a full, educational school day.

Controversy

September 2003 Elma High School made news when the administration banned [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/138713_skirt09.html cheerleaders' 'short skirts'. The ban left members of the cheerleading and drill teams, and their parents -- some of whom wore similar skirts years ago -- livid. Short skirts are allowed only at games and performances, not the hallways or classrooms. Parents argued that the new rule devalues the hard work the girls put into practicing, keeping up good grades, and raised money to buy the expensive uniforms which can cost several hundred dollars. Another big issue is the fact that for Volleyball players, they are not allowed to wear their uniforms on game days even after school throughout the halls. It is against dress code to wear spandex, but what the girls want to know is if they cant wear spandex, then why do they get to wear them at all. Drill team and Cheerleading get to wear their short skirts with nothing underneath, while volleyball players cannot wear shorts that firmly cover all aspects of their lower region.

ources

[http://164.116.96.86/education/school/school.php?sectionid=7 Official Website] [http://www.cityofelma.com/ City of Elma]

[http://www.elma.wednet.edu/education/district/district.php?sectionid=1 Elma School District]

[http://www.cityofelma.com/elma.asp?folder=public_works&file=cemetery.xml Elma Cemetery]

[http://www.cityofelma.com/elma.asp?folder=information&file=information.xml Elma Community Profile]