June 2022

 

June concludes our journey through this school year.

Students came back. Classrooms were filled. Schools remained open.  It was good to be back where we belong.

There was joy and excitement with caution and safety.  A "Welcome Back to School" unlike any other.  Now wishing the best to the Class of 2022.

Education resumed full time and continued throughout the school year.

Students and staff were tested consistently, enduring new challenges.

They passed through weekends and holidays successfully, and knew what to do in case of a positive result.

They received the expected results of learning loss through CAASPP.  Yet, students and staff met the challenges and passed the tests.

It is now a time for all to rest and recreate for the summer.

To be ready to return for next school year with cheer.  To learn and study on our own, at our own pace, with the subjects we like.  To be one with ourselves, and be amongst other.

It is now time to take a break and enjoy the summer. 

Manuel R. CortezRodas - Educator

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Class of 2022

 

Class of 2022.

Thank you, for coming back to school.

Your Freshmen Year, back in 18-19.

May seem like decades, or centuries ago.

Yet here you are today, in 20-22.

Having accomplished what you set out to do.

You did so during tough times:

A pandemic, staying at home, distance learning.

Being asked to wear masks.

To sanitize your hands.

To see your classmates through a grid of profiles on a school laptop.

To mute and unmute, to turn off your camera.

To screen share and pin to screen.

To lowering the sound so you don't receive bad feedback.

To being back in person in real time and be able to hug, shake hands, fist bump.

To being here in this moment with your classmates.

To being bonded by all that brought us together.

To be a student who is a member of the class of two thousand twenty two.

Congratulation students!

Manuel R. CortezRodas - Educator

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April 2022

 

The clouds of precipitation begin to recede as April comes to an end and we look forward to the sunny days of May and the summer ahead.

Our students are arduous at work on the California Assessment of Student Progress and Performance (CAASPP) whose results we will await throughout the summer hoping that they are much better that the limited results received last year.  Students also begin to wrap up classes as the school year comes to a close with the pomp and circumstance that the last two years lacked due to the pandemic.

But before we check out for the summer break we all so much deserve, it is recommended that stock be taken of how this school year went for students, teachers, parents, administrators, and all who took part in the development of education through the 2021-22 school year.

So hang in there and remain focused as the last day of school gets near and look back at the rear to a school year which saw the return of students to school, a winter spike of a new variants, a rise in the financial pressures families endure, the spring of an aggressive invasion halted by standing up in solidarity, and the personal choice to decide how to confront a now endemic airborne virus.

Bright days lay ahead and they will be enjoyed by all of us who have endure some tumultuous times.  Hope will always lift our spirits high.

Manuel R. CortezRodas - Educator

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