by Dennis Harter
Involvement in incidents out side of School
ISB partners with families on ensuring our students are safe. When parents send their children to school, we take seriously our responsibility to provide young people a safe environment to learn. Occasionally, we become aware of situations that might put a student at risk like a party serving alcohol or an illegal event. When we know these things, we will inform parents. Simply put, if something unfortunate happened and we knew about the potential for it ahead of time and didn’t inform parents, we would not be able to bear that on our conscience. We care about the children who attend our school and want to keep them safe, just like you. In some cases we are told that this is none of our business, but we will keep making those calls “unapologetically”. Every now and then we are called into help a child who may find themselves in trouble outside of school with authorities. Again, we help keep kids safe in whatever way we can help. We understand that some parents believe that our involvement ends at the gate and school day. We see it differently. We care about students and will always do what we can and should to keep them safe.
Haiku
We have put in place guidelines for teachers to ensure that any home learning assignments will be posted on the Haiku calendar before the end of the school day. Assignments will be posted on the day that they are assigned with information about when they are due. This will allow them to keep appearing on the calendar until that due date.
We will share more written answers to Principal’s Forum questions in next week’s eNews.