Day 1, 2, 3, 4

Hi Everyone,

After many improvements and a labor of Hercules by our teachers, staff and determined custodial crews WE OPENED THE DOORS on August 25th!

As a general rule, educators love kids and yes, we go through withdrawals over the summer when the focus of our life work is delayed in getting here.

I watched all our teachers breath dust, move furniture, sweat and toil over their classrooms and common areas in the building while our custodial crews provided guidance and the professional polish the building needed to get us going for the school year.

While we are still organizing here and there, we are functional and school has begun.

You may have heard we kicked the school year off with an all school assembly to raise school spirit and remind our students Mexico high school is a great place to learn and it's ok to show your school spirit.

We are continuing to enforce our disciplinary code in order to maintain an exceptional environment for students to learn. Many times we have simply given warnings these past few days, however, there have unfortunately been some suspensions. Overall however, our building has been very safe and orderly with everyone contibuting to the solution by providing good supervision for our students.

I will be meeting with our local church youth leaders this Wednesday for a brainstorming session on how they can help us connect to youth at the high school in a meaningful way. In my personal experience growing up, I always found my youth pastors to be solid professionals with sincere hearts for students.

If you saw a red binder come home with tabs in the arms of your child, be sure your son or daughter begins to use it to stay organized or ASK THEM how they're staying organized for their classes. The NUMBER ONE reason grades are low in high school - almost any high school, is because students fail to keep track of assignments, study materials and turn in their work. We provided the binders this year to help students stay on track. There is also a copy of the student handbook for you and your son or daughter to review. 

Several teachers are beginning to work on their own blogs to let you know what is happening in their classes. In the next few months we hope to update our website a bit more with links to these blogs.
I hope you find this information helpful and please provide any feedback you may have about the start of our school year.