The beginning of school is always a busy time of year for
everyone. Students, parents, teachers,
and administrators are running around trying to be at two places at one
time. As a Principal of a high school
with a family, I completely understand how strapped for time people are on a
daily basis.
Also at this time during the year, I sometimes hear comments
from parents that they feel like they are “out of the loop” and there children
don’t communicate anything to them about school. As a parent of teenage students, I can also
feel your pain. It is a difficult task to
communicate with teenagers about what went on at school during a school
day. Sometimes, you don’t always want to
hear what they have to say.
I know you are busy and I know some of you may feel as if
you don’t even know what you don’t know.
But we need to make time for our students and their future. The reason I am writing is to ask for your
assistance as parents of students at New Lexington High School. I am asking that you take time out our your
schedules to utilize the resources we have available at the high school.
Let me discuss some of the things we are offering at the
high school. We offer a College
Knowledge Night each month at 6:00 pm at the high school. During College Knowledge Nights, we discuss
everything from applying to college to getting financial aid for college. Anything you want to discuss regarding
college, we will look at it. We also discuss
Advanced Placement (AP) and Dual Enrollment courses and the value of these
courses for students and parents. We
also discuss our Early College High School (ROCHS) classes that students can
take advantage of to gain college credit while still taking high school
classes.
We are preparing our students for the future after they graduate. Some of you may have questions about
this. I don’t blame you. We are always looking at ways to do things
differently and provide for our students & community the best ways
possible. We have our juniors take the
ACT test that we host at NLHS, and this year, we have some freshman and
sophomores taking the test. We are
hoping to offer Microsoft certification to all of our students next year in the
hopes of better preparing them for a career.
All of our students have iPads to use as resources and tools in the
classrooms. We are having Parent-Teacher
Conferences in November for parents to learn more about their student’s
classroom experiences. Some of the
things mentioned above are quite different than when we (as young adults) went
to school. If it’s scary to you or you
are unsure about things that is natural.
Sometimes we don’t know, what we don’t know. Let me and my staff walk you through any
questions or uncertainties that you have.
That is why we are here.
The staff and I at New Lexington want to help you. Please help us help you. We can accommodate any schedule in order to
help families. If you can’t or do not
want to meet at the high school, we can meet somewhere else. If the time we have scheduled for something
doesn’t fit your schedule, please let us know and we will set up something that
does fit your schedule. If you would
like to discuss something other than college, let us know what it is and we can
make time to discuss it. You can email
me, call me, ask me on Facebook (follow New Lexington City Schools), ask me on
Twitter (@NLHSprincipal), ask me to meet you somewhere to discuss anything you
want to discuss.
It is up to us as adults to help guide our students and
children. Please take advantage of the
resources that you have in the school district. Lets all be models for our students and
children and use the resources that we have in our schools and communities to
take our district to new heights.
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