What a year it has been so far. I hope your summer has been uneventful and that you are getting ready for the new school year without too many distractions and stress. I am personally excited for the new school year to start. We have a great group of returning teachers and are excited to have Chris and Ashley Amaro joining us on the faculty this year. In addition, we are seeing growth in our student body and have additional projects in the works for this year to help our school become better.

COVID has created a new landscape for our country and that includes schooling. When we went into the lockdown last spring, I didn’t think it would go beyond a couple of weeks. Yet, here we are in August and it seems that lockdowns and quarantines are becoming the hot topic of the day. Of course, when it pertains to school, we find ourselves in a world of unknowns. I want you to know that we are working at navigating this time in the most prudent and effective way.

In the coming days, we will be releasing our plan to mitigate the spread of COVID in our school. I want you to understand that we will take whatever steps are in good faith and understanding, but we are up against an invisible agent that can spread readily before we are aware it is there. Please bear with us as we work through this together. The good news thus far is that children have shown a general resistance to the virus and its more serious complications. This gives me hope that we will be able to weather the storm caused by this virus and I am cautiously optimistic that we will be able to move through our school year without great interruption.

Be safe, and I look forward to seeing everyone on Monday, August 24th.