The Fashionable Times Blog Principal's Message 5.7.18

Greetings Fashion Families from your Principal, Daryl Blank.  It was great to see many Fashion family members at the opening of our Senior Art Show this past Friday.  If you have a chance to come to the school, please take some time to look at the art work in the school lobby – the work is so impressive.

It was an exciting at HSFI with NYC Department of Education Chancellor Carmen Farina, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer at HSFI to formally announce their program to put air conditioners in every single NYC public school classroom.  In addition, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer announced that she has approved $620,000 to provide central air to our auditorium - this is an amazing gift that will be a game changer for us in using this space.  I want to personally thank the 10 HSFI parents that were able to attend this event and represent our amazing parents in such fine fashion.

We have 5 weeks of classes left before Regents examinations.  The second marking period is over and students will be receiving their report cards on Monday.  Make sure you check out their report cards on Monday night and speak to them about how they are doing in school.  Make sure your children know this and appreciate the importance of finishing the school year strong.  Students must understand the grades that they receive in June will be the ones that colleges will see.

We should be very excited as our student showcases continue this week – these are great moments for our students – the ones that they will remember about their HSFI years!  Our public Fashion Show that showcases our Fashion Design students is this Friday, May 12.  The new window displays produced by our Visual Merchandising students should be up by then.  Tickets for the Fashion Show are available online now.  There are 2 performances on the May 12 date at 5:30 pm and 8:00 pm.  Tickets are $7 each.  Both shows are the same price.  All the money raised from the Fashion Show is reinvested into our show for next year.  Tickets can and must be picked up in the FLY School Store.  Students must bring their receipt and sign for the tickets.  The FLY school store is open 7:00 am to 1:30 pm.  The online link to purchase tickets is:

https://webstores.activenetwork.com/school-software/high_school_of_fashi/

If you are not receiving this email, the online link to purchase tickets is on the school’s main website page at www.fashionhighschool.net

We have created a new page on our school website for HSFI parents – the page is titled ‘DOE Backpacked Letters.’  We get a good amount of letters from the NYC Department of Education that they ask us to backpack home with students.  We are realistic that sometimes our students do not get these letters to you and that is why we are putting all these letters in one place.  This week the Department of Education gave us a letter about how all school buildings will be designating a single stall student restroom for students who have additional privacy needs, including those with medical conditions and disabilities, as well as transgender and gender non-conforming students.  Here is the link to this website page – if you are not receiving this email, this website page is in the Parents’ section.

http://fashionhighschool.net/apps/news/index.jsp?id=8

Thank you!