We do not take the safety of our student drivers lightly; therefore, we check them out at the door, dismissing them before car line begins if they are ready to go or detaining them until after car line ends to keep them out of the car line traffic as much as possible.  We also begin calling the parents of absent student drivers at 8:30, so we very much appreciate an email or call from a parent whenever a student driver is going to be absent.

If your child is a freshman or had one of the smaller "Logic School" lockers last year which were in the Rhetoric Locker area, he/she might have been assigned a locker which has not arrived yet.  We ordered the lockers early in the summer, but the delivery date has been pushed back, and unfortunately they are not in place for the beginning of the school year.  We thank the affected students and parents for their support, encouragement, and sense of humor about the lack of lockers, and we apologize for the inconvenience the students will have the first week of school. We know that several of the students have already made arrangements with other students to share locker space or with teachers to have a "home base" in a classroom.  We will also have a cabinet in the kitchen that students can access to store materials until those lockers arrive.  Mrs. Bell will check with the lockerless students Monday morning to make sure they all have an acceptable mechanism in place for storing and retrieving materials, as we do not want them to have to carry a heavy backpack all day.  We do expect the lockers to come in during the next two weeks.

One of the most common questions we have had over the last two weeks is whether or not students should wear Chapel Dress on the first day of school.  I love that question because it shows me that students remember that Monday is Chapel/Convocation day and that we wear Chapel Dress on Mondays.  The answer is yes, wear your chapel dress if you have it, but don't stress out if you don't.  I have already heard that several freshmen forgot about having to have a tie and thus ordered them late.  I also know that several of the girls had a hard time finding the right size in the plaid skirt.  Therefore, we will not be penalizing in any way if you cannot come in chapel dress on the first day of school.  If, however, you have trouble getting the right uniform pieces before Monday, August 23, please let us know ahead of time to avoid the student being officially warned for failure to wear chapel dress.