The Fashionable Times Blog Principal's Message 9.17.17

Greetings Fashion Families from your Principal Daryl Blank.

As you are planning your schedule for the week I hope you can attend our first Parents Association meeting of the school year, this Wednesday, September 20 at 6:00 pm in Room 829.

Program changes are complete as students received their updated programs this past Friday.  Ninth graders and their families will receive their Jupiter Grades login information this week in their Spanish classes (sorry for the delay).  Ninth graders will also get their student identification cards this week.

This week I want to highlight our commitment to emergency preparedness at the High School of Fashion Industries.  The school will conduct three types of drills with students – evacuation drills, shelter-in drills and lockdown drills.  Attached to this email and on the school website are letters from the school that outline our preparation for these safety drills.  Also included are some website links to some emergency preparedness videos produced by the New York City Department of Education that will give you a visual representation of these drills.

Full Safety Preparedness video: Vimeo.com/nycschools/safetypreparedness

Assembly Card video: Vimeo.com/nycschools/assemblycard

Lock Down video: Vimeo.com/nycschools/lockdown

Evacuate video: Vimeo.com/nycschools/evacuate

Shelter In video: Vimeo.com/nycschools/shelterin

As you know by now, lunch is now free to all students in all of our NYC public schools, regardless of income eligibility. This means that all meals – both breakfast and lunch – served by the Department of Education’s SchoolFood program will be at no cost to families.  This is a wonderful thing!  Unfortunately, all students and their families still need to submit lunch applications.  Title I funding in New York City is tied to the information that parents/guardians provide on the yearly lunch application.  The High School of Fashion Industries receives nearly $1 million in Title I funding each year.  You can now fill out your lunch application online at https://www.myschoolapps.com/

I want to announce that beginning next Monday, September 25, students who are 10 minutes late to their first and/or second period class will not be allowed into those classes to stop the disruption that is caused by late students.  Obviously, we will not use this plan if there are major transit delays on that particular morning.  Our students’ job right now is being a student, our students must be on time to work.  Students who are late will be housed in our auditorium until the next class period begins.

It is critically important that all HSFI students check their HSFI email & Jupiter Grades everyday.  We will be sending important information out through these tools – if students do not check them, they will miss out on some valuable opportunities and not know what is going on in the school.

Thank you!