Perhaps you, like us, are wondering how it is we are finished with our first quarter of the school year? We feel as if the year just began, not that we are a fourth of the way finished!

Last week we spoke about hard things-- specifically suicide. Thank you for your feedback and support of our message. We do not like to make anyone feel uncomfortable, and our aim in sharing is to not only support all of our students-- including your student-- but also to end this stigma around mental illness which makes us uncomfortable. The sooner we are able to see that mental wellness is as important as physical wellness (really a part of our physical wellness), the better.

REPEAT: Please continue to reach out if we can be helpful. All of our contact information can be found at the end of this communication. If you feel our response time has been slower this week, it may have been. We are all doing our very best to answer all needs in our building. If you have reached out without an answer, please send us another email to remind us. We appreciate all you do each day for your children and reminding us of what they may need is a part of that. Thank you.

If you missed last week's communication, you can access it from this link:

https://www.smore.com/vg4xt