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Hello parents and guardians. I come to you now with my weekly update, my weekly address, to you. Want to let you know that hope all of you are still being safe. Have to get that out because safety is paramount during this COVID-19 pandemic. Last week we fed, we served 3,774 meals. Numbers are still up. Although school is out we are still feeding. We're still feeding at Otken site; we're feeding at our Higgins site and we are doing our bus grab-and-go meals however, we're only feeding Monday through Thursday so make sure that you are aware of that. Parents, please make sure that you answer your phone. Principals will be contacting specific parents and students, scholars, regarding summer school, regarding summer learning. We want all of our scholars who are able to participate in summer learning to participate in summer learning because we know that we've been out of school for a while, for about nine, nine, nine weeks and we want to make up for any gaps that we can. So please make sure that if the principal calls you pick up the phone because we're trying to put everything in place for summer learning. Summer learning this year will be totally online; it will be totally virtual, so there will be no physical face interaction with the scholars and the teacher practitioners, but we have a solid plan in place, and as principals call you when you pick up your devices, whenever the principal tells you to pick whatever your devices, all of that will be explained to you. It's very important that we do summer learning the right way because this is going to determine how we do learning whenever school resumes. Also parents, over the next couple days you'll be getting a survey. That survey will be asking what type of learning would you prefer once school returns. So please make sure when you get that survey you complete that survey because that is going to be very critical information to us. Again, make sure that you create the, complete the census information. There is something on our web site and our Facebook page to let you know what you need to do in order to complete the census information. Parents, students, and community members, scholars, I've been coming to you over the last nine weeks once a week updating you and providing you things that you needed to know during this national pandemic. But over the last couple of days my heart has very heavy because in spite in the midst of this natural pandemic, there is some serious unrest happening in our country. The murder George Floyd at the hands of policeman uh, I think that that was only the tipping point for a long list of things that have happened in our country that has been against, perpetrated against blacks. As a black male, as a father of a black male, and as a superintendent of a school district that serves a significant number of black males, I think that I have a duty and I have a moral obligation to speak out against injustice, to speak out against inequality and racism. My silence, I think any silence, would only contribute to the problem. I would like to share a quote with you from Mammie Till, that was the mother of Emmett Till. Mammie Till said, "Two months ago I had a nice apartment in Chicago. I had a job. I had a son. When something happened to the Negroes in the south, I said that's their business not mine. Now I know I was wrong. The murder of my son has shown me that what happens to any of us anywhere in the world had better be the business of all of us. Silence only contributes to the problem." Parents, students, and guardians, we must speak out whenever there is racism, whenever there is inequality, whenever there is any of those things happening but we must do it in a peaceful way, so make sure that when we speak out we are heard. When we speak out against those things anywhere, that we are heard. But let's not resort to violence; let's not resort to looting; let's have our voices to be heard in a peaceful manner. Parents, scholars, and community, as your superintendent, my heart grieves when these type of issues happen. There is much that we need to do. There are many people that would say that much has changed in our country. I will venture to say much has changed, but with crystal clear clarity, there is much, much, much more that needs to change to determine, to know, that everyone in this country is valued. So until next week parents, please be safe. I still want to remind you that COVID-19 is real and please be safe following the safety guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Mississippi State Department of Health, any announcements that are coming out from Governor Reeves. And again, I want to tell you that use your best common sense because that's the best thing that we can do. Thank you. Have a great day and I will see you again next week.

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