After consulting with the city's emergency management officials, we decided to cancel school at all of our campuses (today) and Friday, |
Even for high school students we expect some degree of forgiveness particularly for those students that have only been here a short period of time whether it's Katrina or Rita. We expect less forgiveness for out Texas students who have been in our Texas system all along. |
I think our moms and dads were ready to get back in the routine, and the kids were just great — they seemed delighted to be back. |
I'm really frustrated right now, |
It was a real team effort throughout Lufkin and Angelina County. |
Lufkin is a hub, so they told us they were sending MREs (meals ready to eat). But in the meantime, people are hungry. And our people are worn slap out, |
Lufkin ISD appears to be the only school district in the region _ possibly the only one in the state _ still housing hurricane evacuees in school district facilities, ... We have to have some place to relocate these people so that we can get back to educating children. |
maxed out. We're drowning, and we need some relief. |
Parents are always grateful when they know their kids are getting treated right. |
The parents I've talked to really appreciate how LISD employees treat their kids, |
We didn't want to find ourselves in the middle of a large-scale evacuation and not have any lead time to warn parents if we had to close. |
We expect to have about 100 new students by day's end, |
We made it clear we need to get our schools ready to resume classes. |
We'll spend the next two or three days rearranging our campuses - cleaning, disinfecting, making them safe for our kids and expect to start school Monday. No one is required to come to school - not teaching staff or otherwise; they need to tend to their own family needs at this point in time. |
We're extremely fortunate that we have such a caring community, |