Week beginning November 18, 2007
Good Sunday evening, Southern Lee High School cyber-visitors! I am pleased to return to blogging after a one-week hiatus caused by a nasty flu bug that put me on my backside for a little over 1 week. All is well now, and it’s back to the Liberator Blog for us all!
It has been a pretty good week for us at Southern Lee, as we were able to recommend 1 art teacher and 1 math teacher for approval to our board of education. We are hopeful that our new teachers can begin in early-December, and spend 1 month serving our students before the semester ends. We are still searching for 1 additional math teacher and 2 special education teachers, so if you know someone with a math or special education background, send them our way!
We also celebrated and observed American Education Week last week, and as you may have noted in the Sanford Herald, the students and staff really got into some of the activities. On Wednesday, November 14, we had Deborah Bolden, Jennifer Nance, Shakeila Strickland, and Arthur Wilson, II serve as “Principals for a Day.” They had the unique opportunity to see the school from the adult/administrative side, and I must say that they did an outstanding job in helping to keep the school running smoothly.
On Thursday, November 15, we hosted about 130 parents in our school for our third-annual National Parental Involvement Day, and we inducted 22 new members into the Southern Lee High School Chapter of the National Honor Society.
Our final activity was our monthly “DEW” activity that was an open letter of thanks to an educator. “DEW” stands for Drop Everything and Write, and it is a school-wide activity. It was very cool to see 1,159 students engaged in writing letters to that certain educator that they wanted to thank for helping them to get to where they are today. I have promised our students that I would ensure that their letters made it to their special teacher if they so desired.
This week is an abbreviated week, given the start of the holiday is Wednesday, November 21. We do have some activities at school I need for you to be aware of, however:
Progress reports will be distributed to all students on Monday, November 19 and Tuesday, November 20, 2007.
Mr. Chris Wieczorek, Herff-Jones Representative, will be here at Southern Lee on Monday, November 19 and Tuesday, November 20 taking orders from our Juniors for their class rings. Mr. Wieczorek and his staff will also host a Parent Information Night from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. in our Dining Hall to help parents and students navigate through the ordering and purchase process.
The Freshman Class will have a special assembly during second period on Monday, November 19 to have a “Discussion of the Issues” between vice-presidential candidates Garrison Lutz and Carmen McIver. The two candidates finished tied in the popular vote, making a run-off election necessary. The candidates will present a short speech to their peers, and the freshmen will convene in homeroom on Tuesday, November 20 and cast their vote to determine who the best candidate is based upon their position on the issues.
After-school tutorials have started at Southern Lee High School, and these tutorials are designed to assist students who are at-risk of academic failure. I have asked our teachers to recommend students for tutorials, and to notify students and their parents either through telephone calls, comments on the progress reports, or a combination of the two. The tutorials run from 3:15-4:30, and are available for a host of classes.
On behalf of the Southern Lee High School family, I wish to extend to each of you a very joyous Thanksgiving holiday, and I am looking forward to chatting with you once again in the next edition of the Lassiter’s Liberator Blog! As always, YOU ARE WELCOME IN OUR SCHOOL, and it doesn’t take a special event like National Parental Involvement Day for you to come. Just come on in, check in at the Main Office by signing in as a visitor. Let them know I invited you, and I’ll come from wherever I am, get a visitor’s pass to you, and we can walk the halls, visit classrooms, and do and see everything your students do and see and experience.
Just come on to 2301 Tramway Road and consider yourselves at home!
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