This is the last week of the semester and we are on a final exam schedule Wednesday – Friday, December 21-23. On final exam days, two periods meet each day and school is out at 1:08pm. On Friday, the office will close at 1:30pm.

Monday: One hour early out schedule
Tuesday: Regular schedule
Wednesday: Final exam schedule - 1st & 2nd Period
Thursday: Final exam schedule - 3rd & 4th Period
Friday: Final exam schedule - 6th & 7th Period

Staff and students contributed gifts and books to give children at Munsey Elementary School through the annual Adopt-A-Patriot program and the Reading Club’s Coin and Cash Drive for books. The Adopt-A-Patriot project has been a tradition at Liberty for more than 20 years. Beginning in early December, students and staff began signing up to “adopt” an elementary school student and received a student’s list of toys and clothing. The senior ASB students delivered the gifts and books on December 21.

The price of the yearbook is going from $80 to $95 after Thursday, December 22. To get the original discounted price, you MUST buy it at the Finance Office this week before Friday. Purchase your yearbook before the semester ends!

It is fog season in the central valley. In the event a fog delay is needed, KHSD will make all efforts to call the delay no later than 5:45 A.M., in order to meet the 6:00 A.M. news report. Bus routes will run 2 hours later and school will start at 10:30am. Delays will be posted on the Kern County Superintendent of Schools (KCSOS) Alert Line website: alertline.kern.org.

Liberty starts at normal time today (8:30am). However, there are some bus delays due to local feeder districts calling fog delays. Both Rosedale and Rio Bravo-Greely called fog delays so please see chart on this page to find the KHSD bus routes that are delayed by two hours.

Four Liberty High School teams participated in last weekend’s Kern Robotics High School League Finals competition at Bakersfield High School. Students developed small battery-run robots that aim yellow foam discs at a goal that is similar to Frisbee Golf goals. Two of the Liberty teams working in an alliance placed second in league finals and may qualify for the California State Robotics Championships in March.

Six Liberty Chess Club members competed in junior varsity and varsity brackets at last weekend’s Kern High School District five-round chess tournament at Highland High School. Sophomore Piheng Chen tied for third in the varsity bracket before losing in a blitz tie-breaker, which Chess Club advisor Miles Van Kopp described as extremely difficult five-minute games.

The Art Club and National Art Honor Society spent their lunches over the past week making gingerbread houses for the Ronald McDonald House, H.E.A.R.T.S. Connection, the Miriam Jamison Children’s Center, and the Mission at Kern County.

All five Liberty choirs will perform their winter concert at 7 p.m. Tuesday, December 13 in the PAC. General admission is $5, and $3 for students. Proceeds benefit the Choir Booster Scholarship. The music will be all Latin American music. “The students have worked hard to learn Spanish and Portuguese dialects and to give an authentic feeling to Latin rhythms,” choir teacher Tim Williams said. “This should be a fun concert.”

THE BAKERSFIELD CALIFORNIAN - A day short of the anniversary of suffering a loss in the 2021 CIF State Division 1-AA title game, Liberty made the most of its second chance. Senior Kresean Kizzy scored three touchdowns — in about every fashion possible — and the Patriots rolled to a 48-20 victory over Pittsburg to capture the state 1-A championship on Saturday at Saddleback College.