Request to Administer Medication at School
Permission For Self Administering of Medication

Some students will receive notification that an immunization, a tetanus booster, is due over the summer months. It is suggested that this immunization be received during the summer months to avoid disruption in attendance during the school year. This immunization is due to the school in which your student will attend during the 2008-2009 academic year. Incoming seventh and eighth graders should send confirmation of the date of vaccination to me before the end of this shcool year. Incoming ninth graders should send confirmation of the date of vaccination to the high school. The high school nurse is Sondra Ashens and her fax number is 794-4130. Your doctor can fax this information, or your student can hand carry this documentation to school.

School physicals are also needed for participation in school activities and visits must be scheduled after May 1, 2008 to be valid for the 2008-2009 school year. It would be very convenient to schedule these two visits together if they are both applicable for your student!

Have a safe and fun summer. Remember to protect your skin while in the sun.

Some parents refer to their children as the “apple of their eye.” One Mom I know, affectionately thinks of her kids as the “star” in the apple.

This mother discovered one day that by cutting an apple horizontally across the middle, instead of coring and slicing it in wedges from top to bottom, that something new and striking appeared. A perfect five-point star was formed by the tiny seeds at the center. The star had been there all along, of course, but she’d just never seen it before because she always approached the apple from a different point of view.

There’s an analogy to children here that intrigues me. Most of us look at the creatures we call kids in a certain way year after year. We see them perhaps as lazy or irritating or demanding. But children are infinitely complex, and we may be overlooking qualities of character that we’ve never seen before. We could be missing the “star” at the heart of these young lives.
If we try to see them through fresh eyes every now and then, we may stumble onto a whole new wonderful dimension to their personalities that escaped us before. So give it a try! Begin looking at your children from a different angle. There is, I promise, a star tucked away inside every boy and girl.

Just a closing thought as we head into summer. Take some time to spend with your kids. You may see something in your “stars” that you haven’t seen before and be pleasantly surprised.