Did you know that students are considered chronically absent if they miss 10% or more (18+) days of the school year, regardless of whether they are lawful or unlawful absences?

Last year, Yellow Springs had 64 students chronically absent. That measured at 10.8% of our enrollment. While our school had the lowest chronically absent rate in the county (yay!), 64 students is still a large number of students! One of our school improvement goals this year is to decrease our chronically absent student rate. It is critically important for children to be in school so that they experience continuity of instruction.

We recognize that children get sick and some absences can't be avoided, however we ask that absences are limited only to necessary reasons. Our doors open at 8:30 am, with our school day beginning promptly at 9 am. and our day ends at 3:25 pm. Please make every effort to have children here on time and for the whole day, every day!

As always, we thank you for your support and partnership.

Warm regards,

Hannah Feldman & Lisa Wrzesinski

Tomorrow, Yellow Springs will conduct our annual Drill Day. This is a day when our school practices all of the emergency drills so that students know where to go and/or what to do in case of an actual emergency. We have found that conducting all the drills at one time reinforces for students that they are just drills and allows them to differentiate between them. Tomorrow we will be practicing the following emergency responses:

• Lockdown
• Evacuation
• Reverse Evacuation
• Shelter
• Drop, Cover, and Hold
• Severe Weather
• Avoid, Deny, Defend

As a reminder you can find more information on FCPS' Standard Response Protocol below.

Standard Response Protocol Information - English

Standard Response Protocol Information - Spanish

Community Health Fair

The 16th annual Frederick Community Health Fair is Saturday October 7th, 9:00am - 3:30pm at Frederick High School. For more information see the flier:

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Citizenship Services

The Asian American Center of Frederick is offering citizenship services, from help applying for citizenship, to taking citizenship & English classes.

For English, click here

For Spanish, click here

Sleep in Heavenly Peace

SHP is an all-volunteer 501(C)(3) non-profit that builds twin beds and delivers them, FREE of CHARGE, to families in Frederick Co Maryland whose elementary, middle and high school kids ages 4-17 are sleeping on the floor, a couch or with their parents/guardians or siblings. Beds include NEW EVERYTHING: frames, mattresses, blankets, sheets, and pillows. In the last 5 years, the SHP chapter has delivered 1430+ beds to 766+ families in Frederick Co.

See the fliers for more information.

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