First Day of School

Today was the first day of the 2010-2011 school year.

I visited every school today.  Overall, I was very happy with the day.  I was at the high school at 7:00 and helped hand out schedules to freshmen students.  By 9:00 this morning at Beagle, every student was in their classroom and the halls were quiet.  At 9:20, I visited a 4th grade classroom at Wacousta and found them working on math.  Kindergarten students were busy in their classrooms when I visited Neff at 10:30.  At 1:30 while I was at Delta Center, Principal Averill was meeting with his first, second, and third graders to discuss school rules and responsibilities.  

Having said that, there were some concerns that surfaced that we will get fixed.  Schedules at the secondary level caused a few concerns.  Part of that was a glitch that we discovered in the new student management software.  We believe that we have that resolved now and scheduling should be resolved quickly.

On this first day of school we had transportation concerns pop up.  Some of these concerns were with the length of some bus rides from certain neighborhoods.  We are working on some solutions and should be able to implement them by the end of this week.  We also were a bit slow getting away from the kindergarten building today.  We wanted to make sure that we had every kindergarten student on the right bus and that took more time that we had anticipated.

Today though, it was good to see teachers in classrooms, students finding their way in the hallways, and parents taking pictures as they sent their sons and daughters to school.