To the JE Community,

I know many of you have had questions about April break so I want to detail our plans as a school district moving forward. First, there is no April Break. We will continue to provide remote instruction for students and meals for students every weekday until school reopens.

However, we will not be delivering meals on Monday, April 13, the day after Easter. As many of you know, our amazing food service crew, have been coming in every Sunday to prepare for the Monday delivery. Our Food Service folks need to be with their families on Easter Sunday.

So we will bulk up the Good Friday meal delivery as best we can. No meal delivery on Monday, April 13, but we will be ready to go and delivering on Tuesday, April 14th, and throughout the length of the school closure.

The governor has not extended the school closure date as of yet. However, I think we should be prepared for schools to be closed for a longer period of time. The community has been great at practicing social distancing and it is very important that we all continue to do so. The war against the virus is a long distance event, not a sprint. Please remember that our food runners have been told to keep a distance of 10 feet. They love what they are doing to help our kids so let’s make sure we are doing our part to keep our heroes in the field safe.

I want to thank all of you who donated generously to the J-E food pantry and a special shout out to Sysco Food distributors for helping the food pantry out as well. I thought that was just wonderful.

Finally, I want to thank the Jordan-Elbridge Cub Scout Pack 102 for donating 50 boxes, I should say 50 sanitized boxes, of Girl Scout cookies, and hand written cards of support, also sanitized, to show their appreciation to all of our essential employees in our food service operation. I can tell you everyone was very touched by the show of support as I handed out boxes of cookies this morning.

Hang in there everyone – Be well. Eagle Pride!

James Froio
Superintendent of Schools