From charles.johns at d214.org Mon Apr 7 14:59:53 2008 From: charles.johns at d214.org (Charles Johns) Date: Mon Apr 7 14:53:10 2008 Subject: [RMHS] RMHS Update Message-ID: Good Afternoon List Serve Reader: I want to call your attention to three important events that will be occurring over the next three weeks. Earlier this year I had indicated that we would be having an unannounced lockdown drill during a lunch hour period this spring. In light of the events at Northern Illinois University and in high schools in this country, we have decided that it is unadvisable to conduct a lockdown drill as unannounced. Instead we are stating to students, staff and families that the lockdown drill will be occurring on Thursday, April 10, during the ?A? lunch. This decision was made due to advice from parents that students may become unnecessarily frightened by a surprise drill. As a result, starting today, we will be reiterating the drill to teachers and sharing the date and time of the drill to our students. We hope that this is a sound balance between causing undue concern and improving our procedures in case of a true emergency. You will note on that day that there will be additional police in the vicinity and in the school and that access to the building will be restricted during the drill itself. At this point we are planning to send a list serve a message when the drill has started and when it has ended. Please feel free to discuss this with you student to help reduce any unnecessary anxieties. On April 15, in coordination with the RMHS TPC, a suicide prevention program will be provided for parents. The program, SOS: Signs of Suicide Prevention Program, is aimed at educating all students, teachers and parents on the signs and symptoms of depression and suicide. The faculty was trained earlier this year. Later this spring, the program will be presented to all current RMHS seniors. Please join us for this extremely important hour-long program. It could be the most important hour you?ve invested all year! Please see the attached flier for more details Later this month we will be having our Prairie State assessment. This is the statewide test that measures our school's academic progress. Concerns have been brought up recently that a number of seniors have expressed that they are going to treat the Wednesday and Thursday afternoons and Friday as senior skip days. While seniors are not expected to come to school on Wednesday, April 23, they are expected to come to school on Thursday, April 24th. Furthermore, despite it being an opportunity for a long lengthy weekend, seniors are expected to be in class on Friday, April 25th. Teachers are expected to have content materials to teach all students on that day and are expecting to have a full class of seniors as students. If seniors chose not to come to class, it may make it impossible for that teacher effectively deliver course content. We are asking you to help us insure that all seniors report to school on those days. Thank you for reading. Charles Johns _______________________________________________ Charles Johns, Ph.D. Principal Rolling Meadows High School 847.718.5600 Please note that my new email address is: charles.johns@d214.org All e-mail correspondence to and from this address is subject to the Acceptable Use Policies of District 214, which may result in monitoring and disclosure to third parties, including law enforcement. Any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and might not represent those of Township High School District 214. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: SOS Flyer.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 36430 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.d214.org/pipermail/rmhs/attachments/20080407/15ed60a4/SOSFlyer-0001.pdf