{"id":180,"date":"2017-04-19T20:22:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T20:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drwills.edublogs.org\/?p=180"},"modified":"2018-01-25T00:07:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T05:07:08","slug":"commitment-to-student-health-and-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/district\/superintendent\/commitment-to-student-health-and-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Commitment to student health and safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Dear K-12 Staff and Community Members:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Earlier this year, we addressed concerns revealed in a social media posting by high school students that referenced April 20 and April 21, and I wanted to share an update.\u00a0As indicated in a recent letter by the high school principal, Ms.Intrieri, the District has arranged for additional security on the middle\/high school campus for both of these dates.\u00a0 We have also requested additional presence by the State Police at our elementary school campus. The District has developed\u00a0a staff protocol for all schools to address any written symbols, including swastikas that may be discovered by anyone in the school. That protocol involves preserving, photographing and School Resource Officer reporting, prior to removal and the start of an investigation by administration. We are noting that our protocol has been effective as late yesterday a small pencil drawing of a swastika on a bathroom paper dispenser in a high school stall was reported by a staff member for the appropriate implementation of our protocol by administration and proper redress of student violation of our code of conduct.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Next week, on\u00a0April 24, United States Holocaust Remembrance Day is marked with renewed commitment to remember the 6 million Jews who were killed and to take heed of any signs that\u00a0diminish<\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0 <\/span><span class=\"s1\">the dignity of every person\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s2\">in our\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">community. No student should have to view a hate symbol that denies his or her humanity. That experience interferes with the educational opportunity and the emotional well being of students.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We intend to be explicit about our goals for student health and safety. Our administrators and staff are committed to this principle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Sincerely,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Dr. Frances Wills<br \/>\nSuperintendent of Schools<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear K-12 Staff and Community Members: Earlier this year, we addressed concerns revealed in a social media posting by high school students that referenced April 20 and April 21, and I wanted to share an update.\u00a0As indicated in a recent letter by the high school principal, Ms.Intrieri, the District has arranged for additional security on&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/district\/superintendent\/commitment-to-student-health-and-safety\/\">Continue Reading<span> Commitment to student health and safety<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-superintendent","clearfix"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2852,"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/2852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}