学区总监的信，

January 25, 2015

 

Dear Parents/Guardians,

 

As promised, I am writing you with more information about yesterday’s sad situation and our plan to support your students in the coming days.  As I shared before, the student who died by suicide is a Gunn senior. I know we all grieve with his/her family and many good friends. 

 

While we already have considerable prevention efforts in place including active monitoring of at-risk students, extensive counseling, our student Reach Out, Care, and Know organization, homework monitoring, and professional development efforts with teachers, we have plans to do more in the areas that directly link to student social emotional health.  These areas include sleep deprivation education and management, a more formal approval process for students who want to take exceptionally challenging classes or heavy workloads, an independent research study of consistency in curriculum, instruction, assessment, grading and homework practices, tight monitoring to eliminate project and test “stacking”, additional professional development, and continuing our frequent and consistent messaging regarding the importance of students becoming thoughtful learners for a lifetime, instead of chasing A’s and APs.   

 

The most important prevention activities, however, begin at home with serious discussions about what has happened at Gunn and what your children need to cope with the challenges they face.  These are difficult conversations to have and we have posted some resources on our website that may be useful to you as you talk with your child.

 

Some of you may have heard about another tragic event in our community this afternoon at the Charleston tracks where an adult male died by suicide.  Although the investigation is ongoing, this situation does not appear to have any connection to our schools.  Regardless, the cumulative effect of these types of events is difficult to bear, making it important that we continue to support one another and others in the community with resources and compassion.

 

As I mentioned yesterday, our district and site staff along with our community partners have been working through the weekend to coordinate support for our students. Counselors from Kara, Adolescent Counseling Services (ACS), Asian Americans for Community Involvement (AACI), Cassy, Acknowledge Alliance, and Family and Children’s Services are partnering with us to assist with students and staff.  Many will be at Gunn throughout the week or on call to provide additional counselors for any school where help is needed.  If your son or daughter needs to talk with a caring adult at school, please encourage him or her to let their teacher or counselor know so they can be directed to the correct personnel on campus.

 

We know that as a community, we need time to discuss and process this event together.  To that end, we are in the planning stage of creating a parent information night during the week of February 2^nd for all PAUSD parents to come together and receive information, discuss concerns, share ideas, and provide support to one another.  We will share the specific event details when they are available. 

 

For your children,

Max McGee, Ph.D.

Superintendent

所有跟帖： 

• 同意家庭是预防的最佳后盾。 -soundofsilence- ♀ (192 bytes) () 01/26/2015 postreply 07:22:09

• 是的，很多时候生死也就是一念之差，家长要及时疏导精神上的压力 -时间呢- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/26/2015 postreply 07:24:41

• 至少不要加压。 -soundofsilence- ♀ (142 bytes) () 01/26/2015 postreply 07:26:35

• 我在想高中我们会是什么样子 -洲河- ♀ (129 bytes) () 01/26/2015 postreply 07:30:03

• 在竞争性强的高中，压力感一定都有， -soundofsilence- ♀ (129 bytes) () 01/26/2015 postreply 07:32:55

• 我们休闲地度过了初中，对于高中的反应一无所知 -洲河- ♀ (220 bytes) () 01/26/2015 postreply 07:40:54

• 如果只有你家的初中多学了， -soundofsilence- ♀ (96 bytes) () 01/26/2015 postreply 07:42:07

• 好像还是跟以前一样泛泛而谈。没有具体措施。 昨天Charleston tracks又自杀一个成年人。这两个月我都听到3个人自杀啦 -自由落体- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/26/2015 postreply 07:27:00

• superintendent信里讲了，和学校没有关系 -洲河- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/26/2015 postreply 07:30:57

• 每次都是这样 -自由落体- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/26/2015 postreply 07:32:40

• 你不能这种态度 -洲河- ♀ (102 bytes) () 01/26/2015 postreply 07:33:44

• 也是事实，学校应该拥有很强的心理辅导ｔｅａｍ -时间呢- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/26/2015 postreply 07:34:50

• 我说的是最近这个成人的自杀，你说的是同一个人吗？ -洲河- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/26/2015 postreply 07:36:53

• 肯定不是，作为一个ｓｅｎｏｉｒ的妈妈，听到这个娃的消息，心很痛 -时间呢- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/26/2015 postreply 07:39:51

• 是啊，像俺娃不打球不弹琴，就玩儿game，就爱学习， -houmom- ♀ (184 bytes) () 01/26/2015 postreply 07:30:35

• 每个娃都不一样，每个妈妈也不一样 -时间呢- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/26/2015 postreply 07:32:13

• 是这样。不过因为俺娃将来也就蚂工了，所以名校 -houmom- ♀ (99 bytes) () 01/26/2015 postreply 07:39:09

• 3 -COMC- ♀ (6 bytes) () 01/26/2015 postreply 07:31:37

• 没看懂。又是加州国的事儿？: ) -houmom- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/26/2015 postreply 07:34:19

• 3 -COMC- ♀ (6 bytes) () 01/26/2015 postreply 07:36:31

• 亚裔聚堆真不是好事. -我爱拉氏- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/26/2015 postreply 07:42:59

• 我们不是也需要ｓｏｃｉａｌｌｉｆｅ　吗？ -时间呢- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/26/2015 postreply 07:43:58

• 亚裔扎堆的地就是cut throat competition,我们这好的公校90%以上亚裔 -黄玫瑰888- ♀ (51 bytes) () 01/26/2015 postreply 07:47:55

• 我们还不稀罕他们来呢 -时间呢- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/26/2015 postreply 07:53:22

• 好像哪看到过，加拿大还是纽约的。太邪门了，学那么多干嘛？哈哈。 -黄玫瑰888- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/26/2015 postreply 07:42:07

• 哎，没法想象孩子的父母什么心情啊。美国如此多元化，什么职业都能安身立命， -黄玫瑰888- ♀ (272 bytes) () 01/26/2015 postreply 07:36:17

• 玫瑰，我太喜欢你了！ -时间呢- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/26/2015 postreply 07:42:48

• 哈哈。我太荣幸了。谢谢啊。 -黄玫瑰888- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/26/2015 postreply 07:43:55

• 不用若干年后，我们自己都在职场社会上混，就算最世俗 -houmom- ♀ (99 bytes) () 01/26/2015 postreply 07:43:09

• 嗯。觉得中学生真可怜。自己本身就不容易，还要背负着父母的期望和荣耀。呵呵。 -黄玫瑰888- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/26/2015 postreply 07:46:32

• 这个学区总监的活儿真不好当。 -欧阳小溪- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/26/2015 postreply 08:29:31