Greetings Fashion Families from your
Principal Daryl Blank.
We have a full week of instruction
for our students. As we begin the school
year, I want to share with you our school goals – our goal is that every
members of the High School of Fashion Industries’ community – students,
families and staff feel cared for and challenged. Our belief is that people succeed when they
feel they are being cared for and challenged.
Our school community feels strongly that emotions matter at HSFI. Everything we do at the school will be
aligned to these goals.
This week beginning on Tuesday we
will be running program changes for students who need them. Please
keep in mind that these program changes will only be approved for changes that
are needed for meeting graduation requirements.
Changes will not be approved based on teacher preferences. Returning students will not be allowed to drop
honors and Advanced Placement classes that they signed up for last year – we
programmed and budgeted for this school year based off these requests. Students will not be allowed to drop classes
that help them meet college and career readiness requirements including their
major along with math and science classes.
The expectation is that all HSFI students complete their major program
and take 4 years of math and science classes if these classes can fit into
their program. All students must be
scheduled for 5 and a half hours of instruction every day.
It is critically important that all
HSFI students check their HSFI email & Jupiter Grades everyday. Jupiter Grades is our online grading
system. 9th graders should
log onto their HSFI email to get the directions to log onto Jupiter Grades. We will be sending important information out
through both 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.
HSFI families should know that our
first Parents Association meeting of the school year is Wednesday, September 25
at 6:00 pm. It would be great to get a
large turnout at the first meeting.
To help us help your child, we are
asking Fashion Families to fill out a brief survey that asks the question, ‘How
does your child learn best?’ We are
asking you to please provide as much information as you wish to help High
School of Fashion Industries' teachers support your child. This information will be shared with teachers
and supervisors and NO ONE ELSE. Here is
the link to the Google survey – you will write in your name, your child’s name
(and their 9 digit number if you have it) and then there is a place to answer
this question.
Thank you!
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