AM Announcements - January 09

AM Announcements
January 09, 2009

1. Today is Day 81.

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:

Friday: January 09
No items at this time

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. Announcements are short today!

6. Upcoming dates for your calendar:
a. January 12 - Interim Progress Reports go home
b. January 13 - Staff Meeting - Final vote to approve 2008-2011 School Improvement Plan
c. January 16 - SIP Due at Central Office
d. January 16-23 - End of Quarter Tests
e. January 19 - No School - MLK Holiday
f. January 20 - AR Benchmarks due
g. January 23 - End of Quarter
h. January 26 - No School - RS day for report cards
i. January 27 - Technology Staff Development - 2:30-5:00
j. January 27-29 - AR Celebrations - (27/K; 28/1-2; 29/ 3-5)

7. There is a sign-up sheet in the mail room for Be Healthy School Kids classroom presentations beginning. No more than two classes may sign up for any time slot.

8. I contacted Drew Davis about some questions that arose around students with outstanding balances in the cafeteria. I got the following response to my questions:

a. A child with an outstanding balance cannot be prevented from purchasing snacks, ice cream or chips. We cannot restrict how children spend their money even if they have an outstanding balances.
b. Students with outstanding balances may purchase a complete lunch if they have sufficient money. They will not be given a voucher lunch if they can pay for a full lunch even if they have an outstanding balance.
c. The cafeteria cannot accept payment for a la carte items and then refuse to return change to the child applying it to the outstanding balance. All change due must be returned to the child. The child may choose to apply their change to their outstanding balance but cannot be compelled to do so.

9. In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
Joan Baez (1941 - )