A Message from the Assistant Superintendent
A MESSAGE TO PARENTS
Teachers and schools cannot do it alone anymore. We've done a lot. Still it is not enough. We need your help…please join with us! While we are proud of our current achievements with respect to our high standards-performance assessments-alternate programs (Certificate of Initial Mastery Initiative) the ongoing dilemma of substance abuse, zero tolerance, and the emerging new American family continue to challenge all of us. We need your help! Many turn to the schools again. Why aren't the schools more effective? Always, only the educators are at the mercy of those who call for efficiency,
accountability, and assessment. Everyone, the entire community with all its facets, must become more concerned and get involved. The schools should not and cannot do it alone. We need your help!
It's a tough world to grow up in today.Kids are bombarded with options and images that can blur the line between right and wrong. They're forced to make choices that are complicated enough for adults. And if they choose wrong, they must live with those consequences, or they don't live at all. Helping students make the hard, and correct, choices is what we, as educators, are all about. We do our best to make the truth understandable. What we do is NOT enough! It's important for you to promote positive alternatives. The community must do the same. We need your help! TV watching isn't enough-you need to encourage your child to pursue active recreational activities, hobbies, and healthy interests with other children. Get involved in parent groups and school affairs, join our Family Centers effort.. What you do as a positive role model sends a more powerful message than what you say. Attitudes need to be wrestled to the ground and turned upside down.Healthy living can and must be portrayed to children as
exciting and fun. We all must join to teach our children to say YES to health and life! Again, we need your help! If you are already helping, we need MORE of your help!
We must fully realize that the typical Ozzie & Harriet family is no more. The new American family has emerged. Twenty-five percent of public school students come from single parent families; 70 percent of school-age mothers work; 12 percent of our children are born out of wedlock, and one birth in seven is to a teen-age mother. We are then asked to effectively teach values and responsibility. We cannot do it alone. We must all join to teach our children to say yes to respect, tolerance, and a future.
Our students are very precious to us. We want them educated, we want them ready for the 21st Century, we want them healthy, and we want them happy! They must realize that life is precious, yet very fragile. Again, you must help us to make them realize that they must always have hope, that they must have their own personal "unprofane" spot what they can meditate, that people are more important than things, and that everything they can imagine, they can achieve. All of our students can and must learn, and be successful…all! Again, please join with us… we cannot do it alone…we need your help!
Cordially & professionally,
Joe Krupowicz
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