Principal's Notes

Prinicipal's Notes

November 7, 2008



This week at SHS we have experienced some unique and troubling challanges. Parents, you were made a aware that we worked closely with the Salem Police Department and the County Attorney to deal with two issues occuring at school. Letters were sent home with students on Monday afternoon from Superintendent Delahanty regarding a threat classified by the SPD as a "low level" threat along with information about the response. A second letter went home on Thursday afternoon with students (also emailed) about some inappropriate images of students being passed around by students on cell phones. While these issues have caused distraction to our primary charge, it has created an important opportunity to meet and dialoque with students about the behavior and hopefully provide some real-life learning.

I want to remind parents that you are invited to the Seifert Auditorium on Monday evening at 7:00pm to hear more about this growing concern in today's high schools, what possible ramifications it could lead to both short and long term, and what you can be doing as a parent to help your child proctect themselves. County Attorney Reims along with law enforcemnt will participate in the prsentation and be available to answer your questions. We look forward to the opportunity to work with parents so that our kids grow into healthy and productive citizens.

We have recently constructed a parent email list serve. We used the email to sen the letter from Mr. Delahanty in addition to the hard copy. If you failed to receive an email and would like to be included in our list serve, please email to jarnfield@sau57.org and we will add you to the service.