D114 Weekly Family Updates 11/14/22

      

Dear Families, 

Well, nothing like a 40 degree temperature swing, huh? Hello, Fall! I hope all is well in your homes!

SANTA'S BREAKFAST (INFO FROM PTA)

It's that time of year again! 

We are bringing back Santa's Breakfast and Holiday Market at Stanton!

Saturday, December 3rd, 8am-12 pm! 

For those who are new or haven't experienced Santa's Breakfast the way it was typically done, here is what to expect:

PTA puts on this event for families and sells tickets for breakfast. Families can purchase photos to take with Santa. There is a craft table available, the choir/band performs, &  8th grade puts on a bake sale. The book fair takes place in the hallway and the gym has crafters and vendors to browse and purchase. 

This is a HUGE event for families and the public, and we can't WAIT to see you there!

COVID PROCEDURES

For a POSITIVE COVID case, the following is required

Positive individual isolation period of 5 days at home. The student may RETURN ON DAY 6 as long as they are symptom free and fever free for 24 hours prior to return.

Day 0 = 1ST DAY OF SYMPTOMS OR a POSITIVE test 

Day 1 = Day after symptoms began

Day 5 = Last day of required isolation

Day 6 = RETURN TO SCHOOL- IF symptom free and fever free for 24 hours prior to return

Key Dates

Please click here for the D114 22-23 calendar. See below in the Dates section for key back to school dates.

Student Handbook

Please click here to review the 22-23 student handbook. It's also posted in our website!

Medical Guidelines

• Please DO NOT send your child to school sick. If they have a fever, vomit, a persistent cough or have diarrhea, please keep them home for at least 24 hours and until they are feeling better.  See our Sick Day Guidelines here for more information.

• Notify us if they have tested positive for COVID, Flu, Strep or other diagnosed condition so we can partner with you on a plan for them. 

• We are no longer participating in surveillance testing, but we do have rapid tests on hand. We will only do a rapid test with parent/guardian permission. We can also direct you to easy locations to get PCR tests or at home rapid tests if you need them. 

• We will not be providing remote access unless specifically needed, and this will be determined on a case by case basis.

November 15--Board of Education Meeting at 7PM at Lotus or via Google Meet

November 17--Family Reading Night at Lotus

November 21 and 22--Lotus Conferences, normal schedule at Stanton

November 23-25--Thanksgiving Break

December 3--Santa's Breakfast and Craft Show by the D114 PTA from 8AM-12PM at Stanton

D114 is a special place to be! Thank you for your partnership with us!

-Heather Friziellie, your Superintendent of Schools

D114 Weekly Family Updates 11/7/22

                

Dear Families, 

I hope you had a wonderful weekend! I know our Stanton students and staff were excited to celebrate learning at last week's conferences to wrap up Quarter 1. Thank you to all families who participated! We're so glad to work with you for student learning!

Extra Halloween Candy?

Every year, the D114 PTA partners with Conlon and Thompson Orthodontics for their annual Halloween candy buy back program. They give the participating schools $1 for every pound of candy donated. The candy is then donated to our troops. There are donation boxes at both buildings, so please keep that candy coming! THANK YOU!

COVID PROCEDURES

For a POSITIVE COVID case, the following is required

Positive individual isolation period of 5 days at home. The student may RETURN ON DAY 6 as long as they are symptom free and fever free for 24 hours prior to return.

Day 0 = 1ST DAY OF SYMPTOMS OR a POSITIVE test 

Day 1 = Day after symptoms began

Day 5 = Last day of required isolation

Day 6 = RETURN TO SCHOOL- IF symptom free and fever free for 24 hours prior to return

Key Dates

Please click here for the D114 22-23 calendar. See below in the Dates section for key back to school dates.

Student Handbook

Please click here to review the 22-23 student handbook. It's also posted in our website!

Medical Guidelines

• Please DO NOT send your child to school sick. If they have a fever, vomit, a persistent cough or have diarrhea, please keep them home for at least 24 hours and until they are feeling better.  See our Sick Day Guidelines here for more information.

• Notify us if they have tested positive for COVID, Flu, Strep or other diagnosed condition so we can partner with you on a plan for them. 

• We are no longer participating in surveillance testing, but we do have rapid tests on hand. We will only do a rapid test with parent/guardian permission. We can also direct you to easy locations to get PCR tests or at home rapid tests if you need them. 

• We will not be providing remote access unless specifically needed, and this will be determined on a case by case basis.

Monday, November 7th, 2022

Eat Out 2 Help Out D114 PTA Fundraiser

Where: Culver's in Fox Lake

Time: 5-8pm

 

Come see your teachers serve you! Dine-in or Drive Thru Available! 

*Mention the D114 PTA Event to help us receive 10% of purchases back to our organization. 

 

File attachments:
22 Culvers Eat out 2 Help OUT.jpg

November 8--Election Day--School Holiday

Thursday, November 10th, 2022

Please join us at November's PTA Meeting

*You will learn updates, upcoming events, volunteer opportunities, and voting on items. 

Time: 6:30 pm

Where: Lotus School in STEM Rm 222

 

Can't make it in person? 

We also will be providing a virtual option to listen in. You will not be able to vote virtually. 

Click the link below to be admitted into the virtual meeting. (*you will need a Gmail account)

https://meet.google.com/rps-xjos-qnn

November 11--Veterans Day--School Holiday

November 15--Board of Education Meeting at 7PM at Lotus 

November 17--Family Reading Night at Lotus

November 21 and 22--Lotus Conferences, normal schedule at Stanton

November 23-25--Thanksgiving Break

D114 is a special place to be! Thank you for your partnership with us!

-Heather Friziellie, your Superintendent of Schools

D114 Weekly Family Updates 10/31/22

               

Dear Families, 

Wishing everyone a safe and very Happy Halloween!

SCHOOL NEWS

On Friday, almost all of Stanton went to Richardson's to celebrate our best first quarter EVER!!!! Students are making great choices, so this was their PBIS reward. We're SO proud of our kids!

The Lotus Guiding Coalition, a leadership team made up of administrators and staff, was recently videoed because of the school's outstanding progress, recognition as a Model School, and the collaboration shown by this team! We're not yet sure what exactly will be done with the footage, but we sure are proud of all the work that's happening for our Lotus students and staff! 

COVID PROCEDURES

For a POSITIVE COVID case, the following is required

Positive individual isolation period of 5 days at home. The student may RETURN ON DAY 6 as long as they are symptom free and fever free for 24 hours prior to return.

Day 0 = 1ST DAY OF SYMPTOMS OR a POSITIVE test 

Day 1 = Day after symptoms began

Day 5 = Last day of required isolation

Day 6 = RETURN TO SCHOOL- IF symptom free and fever free for 24 hours prior to return

Key Dates

Please click here for the D114 22-23 calendar. See below in the Dates section for key back to school dates.

Student Handbook

Please click here to review the 22-23 student handbook. It's also posted in our website!

Medical Guidelines

• Please DO NOT send your child to school sick. If they have a fever, vomit, a persistent cough or have diarrhea, please keep them home for at least 24 hours and until they are feeling better.  See our Sick Day Guidelines here for more information.

• Notify us if they have tested positive for COVID, Flu, Strep or other diagnosed condition so we can partner with you on a plan for them. 

• We are no longer participating in surveillance testing, but we do have rapid tests on hand. We will only do a rapid test with parent/guardian permission. We can also direct you to easy locations to get PCR tests or at home rapid tests if you need them. 

• We will not be providing remote access unless specifically needed, and this will be determined on a case by case basis.

November 3 and 4--Student Led Conferences at Stanton, normal schedule at Lotus

November 5--Day of the Dead Community Event at Stanton (see below for details)

November 8--Election Day--School Holiday

November 15--Board of Education Meeting--details TBD

THIS SATURDAY!!!!!

D114 is a special place to be! Thank you for your partnership with us!

-Heather Friziellie, your Superintendent of Schools

D114 Weekly Family Updates 10/24/22

                  

Dear Families, 

I hope you enjoyed the GORGEOUS weekend! What a fabulous fall weekend!

HEALTH/SEX EDUCATION UPDATE

Fall 2022

Dear D114 Families, 

There has been much discussion locally and nationally regarding the National Sex Education Standards and their implementation in schools. To view this standard set, please visit: https://www.advocatesforyouth.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/NSES-2020-web-updated2.pdf Of specific public interest has been the integration of instruction aligned to gender identity starting in the elementary grades and expanded discussion of this topic in the upper grades. 

In the state of Illinois, the original legal guidelines (November identified in 105 ILCS 5/27.9 (8/20/21) stated that two choices existed for school districts to consider:

1. No sex education; or

2. NSES aka Comprehensive Personal Health and Safety and Sexual Health Education Program (105 ILCS 5/27-9.1a)

In other words, this meant an “all or nothing” decision for school districts. 

We have now been informed that school districts may provide sex education and NOT fully adopt the NSES. In partnership with our Board of Education, we have decided to approach this topic with neither a full opt in or opt out, but, rather, a middle ground that we believe reflects our community’s values and the needs of our students. To see exactly what will be taught in Grades 5-8, please click here. 

Districts are required to develop an administrative procedure for a Health Education Program that focuses on a variety of safety topics and specifically sexual abuse, sexual assault awareness, family life, and personal health and safety and sexual health education. Related to these specific topics, families must have advance notice of the content to be taught, the opportunity to review the content and resources, and the option to opt their child(ren) out of instruction with no penalty whatsoever. 

To that end, D114 plans to proceed as follows:

1. Continue to implement health education in grades 5-8; 

2. Comply with the parameters above; and

3. Continue to focus on the standards used prior to 2022-23 (linked above and here); and 

4. Not expand specific sexuality based health instruction to lower grades, nor will we add the new topic strands identified in the updated NSES. 

We believe that proceeding in this way meets our students’ and community’s needs in compliance with our legal obligations and in alignment with the updated expectations identified by the state of Illinois for sex education programs. 

For our 5th-8th grade families, Mrs Husko, our Health Teacher, will be in contact prior to the unit related to sexual education begins to offer opportunities to review the materials as well as to opt out of this instruction if you feel that is the right decision for your child/family. 

I know this is a very important topic, so please don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions whatsoever. 

With commitment to our students, staff, families, and community, 

Heather Friziellie

Superintendent of Schools

COVID PROCEDURES

For a POSITIVE COVID case, the following is required

Positive individual isolation period of 5 days at home. The student may RETURN ON DAY 6 as long as they are symptom free and fever free for 24 hours prior to return.

Day 0 = 1ST DAY OF SYMPTOMS OR a POSITIVE test 

Day 1 = Day after symptoms began

Day 5 = Last day of required isolation

Day 6 = RETURN TO SCHOOL- IF symptom free and fever free for 24 hours prior to return

Key Dates

Please click here for the D114 22-23 calendar. See below in the Dates section for key back to school dates.

Student Handbook

Please click here to review the 22-23 student handbook. It's also posted in our website!

Medical Guidelines

• Please DO NOT send your child to school sick. If they have a fever, vomit, a persistent cough or have diarrhea, please keep them home for at least 24 hours and until they are feeling better.  See our Sick Day Guidelines here for more information.

• Notify us if they have tested positive for COVID, Flu, Strep or other diagnosed condition so we can partner with you on a plan for them. 

• We are no longer participating in surveillance testing, but we do have rapid tests on hand. We will only do a rapid test with parent/guardian permission. We can also direct you to easy locations to get PCR tests or at home rapid tests if you need them. 

• We will not be providing remote access unless specifically needed, and this will be determined on a case by case basis.

November 3 and 4--Student Led Conferences at Stanton, normal schedule at Lotus

November 8--Election Day--School Holiday

November 15--Board of Education Meeting--details TBD

NEW!!!

NEW!!!

D114 is a special place to be! Thank you for your partnership with us!

-Heather Friziellie, your Superintendent of Schools