School Closure extended until the end of the School Year!

April 2, 2020

Dear Parent/Guardian,

I pray this letter finds you in good health and in safety. We salute all our parents who are frontline workers in the medical and related professions, as well as first responders who are faced with the dangers of Covid-19 on a daily basis. Our daily prayers are with you. For those parents/guardians who have been hospitalized as a result of Covid-19, we pray for God’s healing hands on you. We are also aware that many of us have been directly impacted socially and financially by the effects of school closures and stay home orders from the government due to Covid-19. We pray that God gives each of us the grace needed to carry on. Thank you for all the hard work you perform, trying to work from home and at the same time assist your children with staying connected with their distance learning program.

Our previous mandate for returning to school physically was May 5, 2020. This changed yesterday with an announcement by Governor Gavin Newsom of California, that schools will remain closed until the end of the school year. Instruction continues while schools remain closed for physical meetings. This means that the earliest opening date will be in the fall of 2020/2021. This has been confirmed by the Southern California Conference Office of Education. We are by this letter informing you that our distance learning program will continue uninterrupted until the end of the school year. We will continue to offer quality Christian education to our students on every school day for the remainder of the 2019/2020 school year. The last day of school is June 5, 2020.

There are many adjustments that are being made to make the current delivery system for the distance learning program run smoother after this first week. We appreciate the feedback we are getting from parents and students regarding the unique technical challenges that we are facing with the implementation of the distance learning program. Kindly keep the feedback coming.

On a lighter note, I would like to encourage you to take lots of pictures of your children at work (school at home) and share with me in my Google Drive via my email ([email protected]). We plan to put together a collage of these pictures and produce videos for sharing once a week. Preserving positive memories of these days for the future is our legacy to our children. These are unique times that require unique responses. We also encourage you to spend more time playing with your children, having family worship, reading to them, going out on walks with them, or simply doing fun things that they love but time did not previously permit. May the God of peace Himself give you perfect peace today and always. Amen

Blessings.
Israel Olaore
Principal