Please accept my apologies to all of you, for not posting as regularly as I would expect with this blog. But I, as well as many of you, have been overly engaged in the past couple of weeks. This past week, in addition to the normal start of school issues, we have been dealing with the happy news and complications of the return of Jaycee Duggard along with the response of the nation and public chaos of the upcoming message to students from President Obama.
I will commit to do better in the future.
Dr. Miller you do a fine job of communicating. I'm wondering why you would think the address to students from our president would be chaotic and disappointing? Would this be parents? Teachers? I don't know....
ReplyDeleteI believe a message from our president would be a worthwhile one to hear. I think that to censor, our elected president, gives a very wrong message to our students. Yes, as parents we have a responsibility to our children, and as parents we have the right to censor what our children are viewing and hearing. And we can discuss with them and share our own views with them as well. But there is always opposition, do we always have to back down? Our president wants to tell our kids to stay in school and work hard and set goals for themselves. I hope our kids, our students can hear him.
ReplyDeleteI believe the joyful celebration of Jaycee's return more than excuses any lapse in blog updates. Besides, we're all very appreciative that you have initiated this means of open communication, so thank you. :)
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ReplyDeleteAs a grandparent of one of your students, I was very disappointed that principals and teachers were given the choice to decide if my grandchild would be allowed to watch the president's speech. Regretfully, her principal and teacher made a decision to not watch the speech. When my daughter called the school this morning, she was told that the teachers voted not to watch the speech. Whereas, I have the greatest respect for teachers, they should not have the power to make a decision of this magnitude for my grandchild.
I realize that there were probably many parents who did not want their children watching the president's speech. I respect their right to make that decision for their child. In the future, my family should be given the same opportunity to make a decision for our child.
Today, my grandchild missed an opportunity to be part of history and you and the Board of Education missed a leadership opportunity to fairly represent all families in the district.
I too am happy about Jaycee's return. Is she connected to Ramona in anyway? I would hope that the kids would have the opportunity to hear the president's message. They ahve the right to form their own opinions.
ReplyDeleteLike Alida said, this is a great way to communicate. It says alot about your character. Thanks so much!
Dear Anonymous, I am so disappointed that your grandchild was unable to see our President's speech. You should speak up, no teacher would exact retribution on a student, and name the school involved. Shame on them. At our school Fremont Elementary we sent home a implied parent consent form, students whose parents wished for them to be excluded had an alternate activity/location for that student to be...there were no negative ramifications or consequences...I strongly suggest that you expose this cowardice.
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