AM Announcements - March 13

AM Announcements
March 13, 2009

1. Today is Day 120.

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: March 13
Ms. Fletcher is off-campus all day today.
Ms. Powell is off-campus all day.
Today is Friday the 13th! The second one this year!

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

5. Teachers in grade 3 and 5 should remind their tutoring students that there is tutoring tomorrow from 8:30-11:30.

6. Upcoming dates for your calendar:
a. March 18 - Dental Screening (EC students, K, 3rd and 5th grades)
b. March 19-26 - 3rd Quarter EOQ testing
c. March 24 - AR Benchmarks due
d. March 27 - Dollar Dress Down Day
e. April 1-3 - Spring Break


7. If you receive notes regarding parents declining to have their children screened for dental problems, please keep them until after 3/18. On 3/19, please send them to Ms. Rhodes who will file them as a group.

8. Furlough explanation and budget crisis


9. Please take a minute to drop a Thank You note to Hope Presbyterian for yesterday's breakfast items. Notes can be placed in their box above the small set of mailboxes by my office door to the mail room.

10. Ms. Powell and Ms. Fletcher are off-campus all day today.


11. Mr. Ireland is out sick today which has resulted in a delay of this posting.

12. Please read the e-mail I forwarded to the staff this morning regarding the possible furlough day we discussed in Staff Meeting on Tuesday. The memo from Kerry Crutchfield, our finance officer, explains the current budget situation and the circumstances that would be necessary in order for us to have to use the furlough day. If you have other questions, I will do my best to answer them.

13. As I checked rooms this morning I noted a lot of trash, crayons, pencils, books and other items on the floors. I also noted that many rooms did not have chairs on top of their desks. It is very difficult to clean rooms when the chairs are down and you have to continually pick up items off the floor that cannot be vacuumed. Please have your children pick up all large items off the floors, including pencils, crayons, books, papers and instructional materials as the last thing you do before the end of the day.

14. If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970)

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966), Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
Henry James (1843 - 1916)

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.
Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007), Armies Of The Night