Quincy Public School District #172 is a large unit district located in west central Illinois. The QPS mission is to educate students and teachers to achieve personal excellence. In November of 2014, an 89-million-dollar referendum for five new state of the art K-5 elementary schools and an expansion to the high school passed overwhelmingly in all voting districts. The district now includes a Pre-K/Head Start program, five elementary schools for grades K-5, a middle school for grades 6-8, and a high school for grades 10 9-12. QPS offers a rigorous standards aligned curriculum, including AP courses at the high school, Project Lead the Way courses in grades 6-12, accelerated course in grades 4-8, and STEM courses K-12. Students at all grade levels have access to technology in a blended learning environment, which was made possible through the generous support from community partnerships and the Quincy Public Schools Foundation. QPS offers many robust co-curricular and extra-curricular opportunities through the music and fine arts department. In addition, the QPS Athletic Departments at QJHS and QHS offer a variety of sports and activities for students in grades 6-12. At QPS, we believe in educating all students and teachers to achieve their personal excellence! Go Blue Devils! page Comment Guidelines
The Quincy Public School District 172 page is provided to the community with the purpose of providing and sharing to the public information, news, student and staff achievements, and other relevant School District information. While the School District encourages questions, comments and concerns, please note this page is not a public forum. This social media site serves as a limited public forum and all content published is subject to monitoring consistent with these comment guidelines. To keep our page focused, we have set some comment guidelines. The page is monitored by School District staff and all comments are reviewed by the School District. Individuals making comments on the page should show respect and civility for their fellow users. Users agree to and comments are subject to Facebook’s own Terms of Use and objectionable content guidelines. The District reserves the right to report any suspected violation of Facebook’s guidelines with the intent of Facebook taking appropriate and reasonable responsive action consistent with their own policies. Individuals are reminded that their name and photo will be seen next to their comment, visible to any other individual that visits the District’s page. To ensure exchanges are informative, respectful, civil, and lawful, we reserve the right to remove comments or user posted content that is:
● Off-Topic: Comments that are not directly related to the subject of page entries are prohibited and may be deleted. If an individual has an off-topic question to ask the School District or a staff member, they should contact School District administration or that staff member directly by telephone or e-mail.
● Spam: Comments focused on selling a product, a service, or an otherwise unauthorized or unlawful commercial communication are prohibited and may be deleted. Likewise, commenters repeatedly posting the same comment, comments, or content are prohibited and may be deleted.
● Personal Attacks: We ask that you refrain from using this page for personal attacks or being disrespectful of others. Comments that bully, intimidate, or harass another user are prohibited and may be deleted.
● Illegal Comments: that are believed to be unlawful in nature are prohibited and may be deleted.
● Language. Comments including but not limited to: profane or provocative language, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive or derogatory content, threats, incitements of violence, obscene or sexually explicit comments are prohibited and may be deleted.
● Virus or Malicious Code: Comments that include a virus or other malicious code are prohibited and may be deleted.
● Personally Identifying Information and Sensitive Personal Information: Comments that contain personally identifying information and sensitive personal information, including but not limited to personal home addresses, personal e-mail addresses, and personal telephone numbers. If an individual user disagrees with a post or has an issue you want to discuss, then please contact the School District administration. All statements and viewpoints expressed in the comments are strictly those of the commenter alone, and do not constitute an official position of the School District. This page Comment Guidelines document is subject to amendment or modification at any time.
