AM Announcements - December 18

AM Announcements
December 18, 2008

1. Today is Day 75.

2. It is the mission of Speas Elementary School to provide its students with the tools necessary to successfully meet the challenges they will face in a diverse world.

3. Calendar items for this week:

Thursday: December 18
Student Council Nursing Home Caroling - 9:45-11:00 AM - Ms. Powell off-campus
Christmas parties 1:00-2:00 PM

Friday: December 19
Dollar Dress Down Day
Box Tops for Education collected

4. At the end of each day please do the following:
a. CLOSE ALL BLINDS
b. TURN ALL TV's OFF
c. TURN OFF ALL MONITORS and COMPUTERS (CPU's)

5. If you would like to write a Thank You note to Hope Presbyterian, you can place it in the box above the mail boxes beginning with A-F. The refreshments in the lounge today are courtesy of Lewisville United Methodist Church.

6. Upcoming dates for your calendar:
a. December 18 and 19 - Classified staff members depart an hour early
b. January 2 - Speas office opens after the Holiday break
c. January 5 - Classes resume

7. Classified staff members are entitled to an hour off today and tomorrow. Those with classroom responsibilities should arrive a half hour later and leave a half hour earlier. Those without may leave an hour earlier than their regular departure time.

8. Classified staff members are to fill out their time sheets on a DAILY basis. They should access their electronic time sheet when they first arrive at the beginning of the day and enter their arrival time. Then they should access it again just prior to departure and enter the time they leave.

9. Patsy Squire was very pleased with the work each of you had done in developing the School Improvement Plan. She found a number of things she wanted to take back to the office and share with other Title-1 school. Special "Thanks" go out to Ms. Mincer who provided a number of insights during the meeting.

10. Tomorrow is Dollar Dress Down Day.

11. We were notified last night that our fund balance was to be used to cover the $2.03 million that WS/FCS has to return to the State of NC. That means that we will be paying back approximately $20,000 to the school system. While this is not news we want to hear, we have no choice. In all, 34 schools are to return a total of $700,000. We will only be able to keep $25 per child in our fund balance.

12. The following readings are scheduled for today:
Johnson - 8:30 AM
Zinn - 9:05 AM
Badarin - 10:00 AM
Gifford - 12:00 PM
Van Horn - 1:00 PM

13. Thanks for your cooperation in setting out trash. Especially a "Thank You" goes out to the trash fairy who gathered all the trash in the back building and had it setting by the door. I really appreciate your help.

14. Ms. Say has still not found her lost a flash drive. If you find it please return it to her. It is a blue-white Clinique hard lipstick case (snap closure with mirror ...The flashdrive is inside the case.).

15. Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937)

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Personal Conduct"

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931), (attributed)

Everyone's a hero in their own way, in their own not that heroic way.
Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008