Letter From The Superintendent - April 2020
If you have been watching the Governor’s daily updates on television, you may have heard that along with the Commissioner of Education, they fully expect that we will not be returning to the classroom as usual for the remainder of the school year. I do not see that changing, but in these crazy times almost anything is possible. Your students are being provided with learning opportunities, and I would strongly encourage parents to follow-up with your child and make sure that they are taking advantage of that. Unless it is make-up work that was needed to bump a grade, this work is strictly for educational enrichment to prepare your child for next year, not to be graded. For most students, their grade in a subject or class (unless it was a dual enrollment college course) will be what they had when they left school upon the COVID-19 closing.
The benefit of learning is priceless. Teachers are available and easily reachable via email, so please, I urge you to sit down with your child and see what they have been given to do. It is very important that your child is ready for next year, ready for the ACT test, etc. Our teachers are ready and able to help in a variety of ways. Please, please help teach your child the habit of life-long learning. There is everything to gain and nothing to lose.
Thanks to those families who have taken advantage of the lunch program that is offered at our pickup points in Indianola, Bartley, Danbury, Lebanon and Wilsonville. Our staff is more than willing to prepare more and make those deliveries to our sites! Remember, there is no “qualification” for these lunches. Any child ages 0-18 is eligible. There is a lunch and a breakfast for the following day. We want to help. If you live in McCook, McCook Public Schools will provide a meal for you without question. Please contact them.
With the Governor’s statement that the peak of this virus will probably be in mid-April, he also said there will be a gradual easing of restrictions later. How this will affect a possible later date for a prom and how we may do some kind of graduation ceremony is yet to be determined. We hope very much that these are both possible, but things are a bit out of our control at this point. We will continue to update you on these things as we get more information. Sadly, having full access to many things may be longer than we were initially told.
Sincerely,
R. Todd Porter
Superintendent