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Lutheran High School, La Verne
“Our 46th year of Quality Education and Meaningful Ministry”
TO: Lutheran High School Students & Families
DATE: 13 MAR 2020
RE: COVID-19 Update - Lutheran High School
FROM: Mr. D. Crites
Lutheran High School is diligently monitoring the developments of this pandemic and staying close to guidelines provided by local, state, and federal government authorities. As of this writing Lutheran High School, in consultation with our Board of Directors, has decided to suspend on-campus education for our students effective Monday, March 16, 2020. We will continue with web-based instruction as detailed below. Lutheran High School is committed to our mission statement of quality education and meaningful ministry and we are well positioned to serve our students. Please read the following information carefully. If you have any questions or concerns, please email them directly to me and I will respond. I will be available by phone if needed, if you feel the situation warrants, but I would respectfully ask you to use email so that I do not get inundated with phone calls which will take me away from the mission at hand.
Academic Schedule:
Monday 16 March 2020 – Students will remain at home with no instruction to be delivered. Faculty will be on campus from 7:00am – 4:00pm. Normal work schedule.
Tuesday 17 March 2020 – Students will remain at home with no instruction to be delivered. Faculty will be on campus from 7:00am – 4:00pm. Normal work schedule.
Wednesday 18 March 2020 – Instructional activity resumes with our Red Day Schedule. Students will follow their schedule with times and will complete course work in the safety of their homes utilizing Google Classroom. Our faculty will conduct instruction, assign work, collect homework, etc. all through Goggle Classroom from their classroom on Campus. During the time in our schedule set aside for Chapel, Pr. King will deliver a message and lead us on our repentant walk through the season of Lent. Attendance will also be taken for Chapel.
We will continue to follow our normal RED / BLUE schedule forward using Google Classroom. Attendance, including tardies, will be taken at each class when you log in. Our online classrooms will be interactive. We will advise when we want our students to return to campus. The safety of our students has been and remains our top priority.
Our faculty members will utilize this coming Monday and Tuesday to prepare their online course content. We will also use these two days to check connectivity for our students. At the beginning of the year, as part of our IT restructure and overhaul, each student enrolled this fall was issued a LHSLV.org email account. Some students have logged in and are using that account. Others have not yet done so. The student email account is the key to the online instruction that will go forward at Lutheran High School. Another part of our IT overhaul was the licensing of an Office 365 account for each enrolled student meaning each student login comes with the latest version of all Microsoft Suite software at no cost to our families.
Athletic Schedules:
As of today, all Athletic activities sponsored by Lutheran High School have been suspended. There will be no practices or contests until further notice. I have had meetings with our Athletic Department, and they will notify our League and CIF authorities of our current position on participation. Our Athletic Department will be providing me with updates as they become available and these updates will be shared with our student/athletes and families via email by either our Athletic Director, Coach Lovett, or myself. I still consider our Athletics our “9th Block” of instruction here at LHS. Athletics adds great value to our students overall educational experience at LHS. I am deeply saddened that our student athletes have had their season interrupted…especially our Seniors.
I will address the student body of Lutheran High School in a full assembly towards the end of Academic Lab today. Students will be encouraged to leave today with all textbooks, notebooks and any other educational materials they will need to continue classes in the safety of their homes beginning on Wednesday, 18 March 2020. Students that were absent today can retrieve books and educational material over the weekend from their lockers. If something is needed from a classroom please email the respective teacher and arrangements will be made.
There will be a series of emails to follow both from myself and from our faculty members. We will use email as our primary source of communication. We will not be using text messaging for communication. I apologize for the brevity of this initial communication. More detailed communications will follow over the weekend. I will also be releasing a YouTube to our LHS Family later today.
I firmly believe we will continue forward with our mission of delivering a quality education and meaningful ministry in the face of this very serious challenge. Please stay tuned in to your email for the latest updates. Email any questions you have to dcrites@lhslv.org.
I will continue to remain vigilant and will take actions necessary to keep all Students and Staff safe and healthy. That is my number one is priority. Please continue to keep our ministry in your prayers. I leave you with God’s words as recorded by St. Paul.
4 Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!5 Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near.6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
(Philippians 4:4-7)
DATE: 13 MAR 2020
RE: COVID-19 Update - Lutheran High School
FROM: Mr. D. Crites
Lutheran High School is diligently monitoring the developments of this pandemic and staying close to guidelines provided by local, state, and federal government authorities. As of this writing Lutheran High School, in consultation with our Board of Directors, has decided to suspend on-campus education for our students effective Monday, March 16, 2020. We will continue with web-based instruction as detailed below. Lutheran High School is committed to our mission statement of quality education and meaningful ministry and we are well positioned to serve our students. Please read the following information carefully. If you have any questions or concerns, please email them directly to me and I will respond. I will be available by phone if needed, if you feel the situation warrants, but I would respectfully ask you to use email so that I do not get inundated with phone calls which will take me away from the mission at hand.
Academic Schedule:
Monday 16 March 2020 – Students will remain at home with no instruction to be delivered. Faculty will be on campus from 7:00am – 4:00pm. Normal work schedule.
Tuesday 17 March 2020 – Students will remain at home with no instruction to be delivered. Faculty will be on campus from 7:00am – 4:00pm. Normal work schedule.
Wednesday 18 March 2020 – Instructional activity resumes with our Red Day Schedule. Students will follow their schedule with times and will complete course work in the safety of their homes utilizing Google Classroom. Our faculty will conduct instruction, assign work, collect homework, etc. all through Goggle Classroom from their classroom on Campus. During the time in our schedule set aside for Chapel, Pr. King will deliver a message and lead us on our repentant walk through the season of Lent. Attendance will also be taken for Chapel.
We will continue to follow our normal RED / BLUE schedule forward using Google Classroom. Attendance, including tardies, will be taken at each class when you log in. Our online classrooms will be interactive. We will advise when we want our students to return to campus. The safety of our students has been and remains our top priority.
Our faculty members will utilize this coming Monday and Tuesday to prepare their online course content. We will also use these two days to check connectivity for our students. At the beginning of the year, as part of our IT restructure and overhaul, each student enrolled this fall was issued a LHSLV.org email account. Some students have logged in and are using that account. Others have not yet done so. The student email account is the key to the online instruction that will go forward at Lutheran High School. Another part of our IT overhaul was the licensing of an Office 365 account for each enrolled student meaning each student login comes with the latest version of all Microsoft Suite software at no cost to our families.
Athletic Schedules:
As of today, all Athletic activities sponsored by Lutheran High School have been suspended. There will be no practices or contests until further notice. I have had meetings with our Athletic Department, and they will notify our League and CIF authorities of our current position on participation. Our Athletic Department will be providing me with updates as they become available and these updates will be shared with our student/athletes and families via email by either our Athletic Director, Coach Lovett, or myself. I still consider our Athletics our “9th Block” of instruction here at LHS. Athletics adds great value to our students overall educational experience at LHS. I am deeply saddened that our student athletes have had their season interrupted…especially our Seniors.
I will address the student body of Lutheran High School in a full assembly towards the end of Academic Lab today. Students will be encouraged to leave today with all textbooks, notebooks and any other educational materials they will need to continue classes in the safety of their homes beginning on Wednesday, 18 March 2020. Students that were absent today can retrieve books and educational material over the weekend from their lockers. If something is needed from a classroom please email the respective teacher and arrangements will be made.
There will be a series of emails to follow both from myself and from our faculty members. We will use email as our primary source of communication. We will not be using text messaging for communication. I apologize for the brevity of this initial communication. More detailed communications will follow over the weekend. I will also be releasing a YouTube to our LHS Family later today.
I firmly believe we will continue forward with our mission of delivering a quality education and meaningful ministry in the face of this very serious challenge. Please stay tuned in to your email for the latest updates. Email any questions you have to dcrites@lhslv.org.
I will continue to remain vigilant and will take actions necessary to keep all Students and Staff safe and healthy. That is my number one is priority. Please continue to keep our ministry in your prayers. I leave you with God’s words as recorded by St. Paul.
4 Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!5 Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near.6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
(Philippians 4:4-7)