Columbia Community Unit School District 4 is a unified school district that services Columbia, a city located on the Mississippi River in the western reaches of Monroe County, Illinois, just south of St. Louis, Missouri. The current superintendent is Ed Settles. Columbia Community Unit School District 4 is composed of three schools. Parkview Elementary School, Columbia Middle School, and Columbia High School form the triad that compose this district. Respectively, the principals of each of the schools are Dr. Michael Beczkala of Parkview Elementary, Dr. Roger Chamberlain of Columbia Middle, and Mr. Mark Stuart of Columbia High. The mascot of the schools in this district is the eagle.
Columbia Middle School hosts a series of clubs, including Spanish Club, a Yearbook creation staff, and a Student Council. Columbia High School has a more diverse set of clubs, which include a prom organization committee, a book club, and National Honor Society.
Famous quotes containing the words columbia, community, unit, school and/or district:
“Although there is no universal agreement as to a definition of life, its biological manifestations are generally considered to be organization, metabolism, growth, irritability, adaptation, and reproduction.”
—The Columbia Encyclopedia, Fifth Edition, the first sentence of the article on “life” (based on wording in the First Edition, 1935)
“The poorest children in a community now find the beneficent kindergarten open to them from the age of two-and-a-half to six years. Too young heretofore to be eligible to any public school, they have acquired in their babyhood the vicious tendencies of their own depraved neighborhoods; and to their environment at that tender age had been due the loss of decency and self-respect that no after example of education has been able to restore to them.”
—Virginia Thrall Smith (1836–1903)
“During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I ... [urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enacting that all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner’s jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Sure, you can love your child when he or she has just brought home a report card with straight “A’s.” It’s a lot harder, though, to show the same love when teachers call you from school to tell you that your child hasn’t handed in any homework since the beginning of the term.”
—The Lions Clubs International and the Quest Nation. The Surprising Years, II, ch.3 (1985)
“Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)