Greetings Fashion Families from your Principal, Daryl
Blank.
As you are planning your week, please
keep in mind that this Wednesday, February 12, we will have our monthly Parents
Association meeting. We hope to approve
our updated Grading Policy at this meeting and put it in place for this term.
This Tuesday, we will be honoring the legacy of Ms. Lakisha
Youngblood, a fashion design teacher who passed away this past summer, with a
memorial after school. During this memorial, we will celebrate Ms. Youngblood
through a special design scholarship opportunity. This scholarship was designed
to honor her passions - print & textile design. Ms. Youngblood's family
will be attendance and the winners will be announced. Students and staff will
have the chance to share memories and thoughts about this dear member of our
community.
This
week is Respect for All Week. This week we
will have the opportunity to highlight and build upon ongoing programs to help
students, staff and communities gain a better understanding of diversity. Our
menu of activities will promote respect for diversity, acceptance and
understanding. We will focus on preventing
bullying, intimidation, and bias-based harassment.
This
week we are continuing to celebrate Black History Month. We have celebrating in a number of different
ways including featuring a prominent African-American contributor to our
country every day and playing music from African-American artists in between
classes. Below is a poster we created in
celebration of Black History Month. We
will celebrate additional cultures and ethnic groups in the coming months
including women, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans and the LGBTQIA+ community.
The NYC Department of
Health and Education has
issued an updated letter on the Coronavirus.
The letter includes the official policy regarding student and staff who
recently traveled to China. The federal government has issued a requirement for up to
14 days of either mandatory quarantine or home isolation (depending on travel
areas in China) for individuals who left China after February 2, 2020.
This means that those individuals should NOT report to work or school for up to
14 days from the date that they departed China.
Thank you.
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