December, 2007
Dear Parents and Members of the Community,
As we approach these two weeks of student vacation, I am hoping that you have time to spend with your children and enjoy their company.
In my work I have a chance to think a lot about kids. But, like you, most of my thinking about kids is shaped either by my own experience of that of my children.
Recently some friends gave us a book of poetry. As we looked through the book, we stumbled on this poem.
SONNET XXXVII
By William Shakespeare
As a decrepit father takes delight
To see his active child do deeds of youth,
So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite,
Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth;
For whether beauty, birth, or wealth, or wit,
Or any of these all, or all, or more,
Entitled in thy parts do crowned sit,
I make my love engrafted to this store.
So then I am not lame, poor, nor despised,
Whilst that this shadow doth such substance give
That I in thy abundance am sufficed
And by a part of all thy glory live.
Look what is best, that best I wish in thee;
This wish I have, then ten times happy me.
My son comes home tomorrow and we will all be together for the holidays. That is enough.
Happy Holidays to you and those you love. My best wishes for 2008.
Kevin Skelly , Ph.D.
Superintendent
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