Dear Families

Dear Families,

Because this crisis is affecting so many people in so many ways, presenting a number of serious challenges to many families, and because school is closed and the support and structure of regular school is now very limited, distance learning, while important, should not supersede the needs and well-being of your family and children.

Unless it’s a structure that works for you, don’t feel like you have to rebuild the same 8-3:30 school structure at home.  Every kid and every family has a different routine and schedule.  For example, if your child does their best work at 4pm, and that works for your family, go with it!  Create a schedule that works for the family, and is built realistically around your family’s routines, traditions, values and needs.

Don’t feel like you have to be a teacher’s assistant.  If it works for you to answer your student’s questions and guide them through their work, that’s ok.  But don’t feel like you have to.  Help your student establish and maintain communication with their teacher.

Don’t worry about grades.  This is crisis education, and it is impossible to establish a fair grading system when teachers can’t be present, and students are at home dealing with the challenges related to this crisis.  The priority is on your child’s well-being, and then on learning, and that is the focus of our staff. Grades are not.

Do what you can when you can to the level you can. For example, if you can’t turn in your child’s work during the set hours on Monday, get them in when you can. Packets at the middle school can be picked up Monday thru Wednesday and dropped off any day of the week.

Please keep in contact with us.  Our staff is available all day M-F and are ready and happy to listen and help. Teachers want to be called and they want to help, so please don’t hesitate to contact them. Teacher contact information is included in the packets and is posted on this website. You can also call the middle school and we will be happy to give you the phone number or email of the teacher you need to reach.

Stay well

Olivia Johnson

FRMS Principal

541-935-8230