Another Intense weekend

There was a lot happening on Saturday.  In the morning we had our 2nd Annual Parent Summit at Arlington HS.  The focus on this was to assist our Spanish-speaking parents in helping their students.  As such, we started with students in our DLI classes from Washington and Castle View performing several numbers for us.  Then we moved on to our keynote speaker, Lt. Col. Kickbush who essentially told her own story which arguably is a lot like those sitting in the audience.  She related with them – but also asked them to commit to being more active and engaged in the education of their children.  She particularly focused on “dads.”  From my perspective, I believe she was very powerful and unlike other speakers ultimately spoke from her heart.  From the keynote, parents moved to a multitude of breakout sessions involving all kinds of topics (e.g., bullying, GPAs and HS credits, college issues, etc.).

My thanks to Antonio Garcia and his staff from initiating this project and then continuing to grow it.  The district staff from our AEL group was highly visible and involved.  The publications team, as always, was involved with all the technical aspects.  Last, but certainly not least there was an army of volunteers.  Kudos and thanks to all.  We doubled the attendance from last year and had over 600 parents for the morning.

Saturday evening was a shift as we went to JW North for another CIF basketball doubleheader with both girls and the boys teams.  The final for the girls’ game was 55-43, which obviously is not close.  They will play again on Tuesday night on Bakersfield (quite a drive).

The boys’ game was even more impressive as they took off fast and never looked back.  For most of the game we were about 40 points ahead of the Hanford opponent.  I am sure the Hanford players thought that there were more than 5 Huskies on the court at any one time, given the speed of the game and defense.  The final score was 61-23.  The boys will also be playing on Tuesday night, but in the JW North gym again – but the predictions are that it will be a much closer game with West Lake HS.

An amazing day.  Thanks to all.