HAVE A GOOD FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL KCMSD SCHOLARS 2010-2011!

As I sit here, with the anticipation of a 3rd grader barely sleeping from the excitement of a new school year, I can only hope that we (adults) have done our best to prepare our children for the school year to come. Last school year was emotionally turbulent because of the many changes we experienced as a community. I believe as parents, administrators, teachers, custodians, security officers, older siblings, aunts/uncles, grandparents, mentors, community leaders and neighbors it is our mission to ensure our children's school climate is everything and more than what we experienced as children. I remember the transition from the crisp first days of school beginning after Labor Day to the warm late August sun beaming down on us as we stood waiting for the bus. I remember this was the one time my whole family worked together to ensure everyone was enrolled and had supplies or clothes. I remember I was so excited to start a new year, meet a new teacher and potentially learn something new. So as we begin waking our scholars up and getting them ready for school, I challenge us all to focus on their excitement of meeting a new teacher, seeing old friends, entering a new school building and even walking to school or catching the bus for the first time. I challenge us to listen to what the scholars have been saying about many of the changes and entertain their approaches. I challenge us to work together to make KCMSD School Year (SY) 2010-2011 the best school year our scholars could ever imagine.

HAVE A GOOD FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL KCMSD SCHOLARS 2010-2011!