Dear Foothill Families,

It's hard to believe that school is starting on Wednesday.  I truly hope that everyone had a great summer.  The staff and faculty came back to Foothill yesterday and there is a definite excitement to start the school year.  It promises to be a great year at Foothill and we are all excited for the students to arrive.  Here are a few tips to start the school year.

• School starts on Wednesday, September 3.  0 period starts at 7:00, 1st period starts at 8:00.

• It will be busy in the parking lot Wednesday morning.  Please do not park in painted spots.  Please do not paint your own spot unless you have permission from the FHS administration.

• Schedules, with room numbers and teachers, are (or will shortly be) available on the Aeries Parent Portal.  There will also be posters made and hung for the first day of school directing kids to the right classroom.  Actual paper schedules will be handed out in 1st period on Wednesday.

• Schedule changes will only be made for course changes.  We cannot change schedules for teacher selection or period selection.  All zero period classes are completely full.  Please do not even ask.  We are working to find a better solution to the demand for more students to have zero period classes.  But at this point, we cannot accommodate additional requests for zero period classes.

• Finally, all Foothill High School students will be issued a Toshiba Laptop computer starting on September 15.  It will take us about 2 weeks to get them all out, but this is a very exciting step for Foothill and TUSD.

The Foothill staff, faculty, and administration would like to welcome all of our students back from summer.  We're ready to all work together to make this yet another tremendous year for Foothill.

See you soon,

Nick Stephany

Principal, Foothill High School