So Long

Dear LREI Community,

Goodbye to the 2010-2011 school year! All three divisions have now dismissed for the summer. The shelves have been cleared, bulletin boards bared, lockers emptied. Even the classroom pets are being packed away!

As I wrote in my blog earlier this month (scroll down to the previous post), much has been accomplished this year; so much growth, so many successes. The whole that is all of our accomplishments is surely greater than the sum of its many, many parts. I am proud of our students and their teachers and all of the other people who work in the school each day. Thank you and congratulations. Thank you, families, for entrusting your children to us, for supporting the Parents Association and for the many ways you support the School’s progressive program.

So off we go to summer break–time at home, time away, time with friends and time with family. Time to tend to interests crowded out by school work; time to find new challenges and opportunities. Time to experience life, to be out in the world-whether close to home or farther afield.

Time, and our relationship to it, may change the most as we head to summer–for some a gift, for others a challenge. Longer days; mornings, starting late and meandering into even later evenings. Time to use. Maybe even time to waste.

I hope that whatever the longer, slower days of summer bring to you and yours, that you enjoy your time together, enjoy the warmth and the opportunities of the season and that we see you all back here, at LREI, happy and healthy, in time for school to begin anew in September.

Best to all,

Phil