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Theodore Roosevelt High School (Wyandotte)
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Theodore Roosevelt High School
540 Eureka Avenue
Wyandotte, Michigan 48192
1923
Suburban
Secondary public school
Coeducational
9-12
Wyandotte Public Schools
Wyandotte Roosevelt, RHS, Roosevelt High, Wyandotte High
Bears
Blue and Gold
The Wy-News
Roosevelt High School Home Page
for schools of the same name
Theodore Roosevelt High School, also known as RHS or Roosevelt, or also Wyandotte High by alumni, is the secondary school in Wyandotte, Michigan
Wyandotte, Michigan
Wyandotte is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 25,883 at the 2010 census, a decrease of 7.6% from 2000. Wyandotte is located in southeastern Michigan, approximately south of Detroit on the Detroit River, and is part of the collection of communities known as...
. Established in 1923, RHS is the only public high school in the city of Wyandotte. Its mascot is the Bear, with athletic teams with similar names (the Bears for males and the Lady Bears for females). Enrollment as of the 2005-2006 school year is 1416 students attending grades 9-12. The mainstream curriculum is essentially university-preparatory, yet students do not have to enroll in all of these classes. Standard procedure for graduation is having obtained 22 of 24 possible credits, taking 4 terms of English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
and literature based classes, including Composition
Composition (language)
The term composition , in written language, refers to the collective body of important features established by the author in their creation of literature...
, 3 terms of Social Studies
Social studies
Social studies is the "integrated study of the social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence," as defined by the American National Council for the Social Studies...
, including Economics
Economics
Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
and Government
Government
Government refers to the legislators, administrators, and arbitrators in the administrative bureaucracy who control a state at a given time, and to the system of government by which they are organized...
, 3 terms of Science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
, and 3 terms of Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
. Students must also include 2 terms of the Arts
ARts
aRts, which stands for analog Real time synthesizer, is an audio framework that is no longer under development. It is best known for previously being used in KDE to simulate an analog synthesizer....
or Vocational training, or a Foreign Language
Foreign language
A foreign language is a language indigenous to another country. It is also a language not spoken in the native country of the person referred to, i.e. an English speaker living in Japan can say that Japanese is a foreign language to him or her...
, 1 term of Physical Education
Physical education
Physical education or gymnastics is a course taken during primary and secondary education that encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting....
, and a half-term (semester) of Keyboarding or Computer Informatics. The school offers juniors
Eleventh grade
Eleventh Grade is the eleventh, and for some countries final, grade of secondary schools. Students are typically 16 or 17 years of age, depending on the country and the students' birthdays.-Brazil:...
and seniors
Twelfth grade
Twelfth grade or Senior year, or Grade Twelve, are the North American names for the final year of secondary school. In most countries students then graduate at age 17 or 18. In some countries, there is a thirteenth grade, while other countries do not have a 12th grade/year at all...
several Advanced Placement courses, and all juniors must take the MME
Michigan Merit Exam
The Michigan Merit Exam is a replacement for the Michigan Educational Assessment Program test, a minimum-competency test for high school students. It was optional for class of 2007 but was required for the class of 2008 and beyond...
in the second semester. Class Courses such as Mathematics were increased requirements to Algebra I, Geometry, and Algebra II is required by state. 3 years of Science is also required by state now, Earth Science, Biology and Chemistry.
Book controversy
The Wyandotte Board of EducationBoard of education
A board of education or a school board or school committee is the title of the board of directors or board of trustees of a school, local school district or higher administrative level....
in December 2008 removed the bestselling book “The Bookseller of Kabul
The Bookseller of Kabul
The Bookseller of Kabul is a non-fiction book written by Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad, about a bookseller, Shah Muhammad Rais , and his family in Kabul, Afghanistan...
” by Åsne Seierstad
Åsne Seierstad
Åsne Seierstad is a Norwegian freelance journalist and writer, best known for her accounts of everyday life in war zones - most notably Kabul after 2001, Baghdad in 2003 and the ruined Grozny in 2006.-Personal and professional life:...
from the school library on the claims that it was pornography
Pornography
Pornography or porn is the explicit portrayal of sexual subject matter for the purposes of sexual arousal and erotic satisfaction.Pornography may use any of a variety of media, ranging from books, magazines, postcards, photos, sculpture, drawing, painting, animation, sound recording, film, video,...
. The librarian as well as a number of teachers opposed the ban, saying that students shouldn’t be sheltered from learning the truth about what goes on in other parts of the world.
Baseball
In 2010 the Bears won their first Downriver League (DRL) championship with a 22-39 regular season record and a 25-42 overall record after losing in the playoffs to a undefeated RiverviewRiverview, Michigan
Riverview is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 12,486 at the time of the 2010 census.The city is a suburb in the Metro Detroit area, located along the shore of the Detroit River. Riverview incorporated as a village in 1922 and as a city in 1959...
team.
Football
In 2010 the Bears won their first DRL championship with a 9-0 regular season record. The team's overall record was 10-1 after losing in the playoffs to another undefeated team at TemperanceTemperance, Michigan
Temperance is an unincorporated community in Bedford Township, Monroe County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a census-designated place for statistical purposes. The population was 7,757 at the 2000 census...
Bedford
Bedford Township, Michigan
Bedford Township is the name of some places in the U.S. state of Michigan:*Bedford Charter Township, Michigan in Calhoun County, Michigan*Bedford Township, Monroe County, Michigan...
. The Bears won the DRL championship again in 2011, that year they finished with an overall record of 11-2 after losing in the playoffs to Martin Luther King High School in Detroit.
Hockey
In 2011 the Bears hockey team won the school's first ever state championship. They also extended Downriver's four-year winning streak in the Division 2 playoffs, the first three were won by TrentonTrenton, Michigan
Trenton is a small city in Wayne County in the southeast portion of the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 18,853...
High School.