When my wife and I were considering the positions in Chennai the first question we had was about air quality. Our son had spent four years in Shanghai and two years in Mongolia -- he had a nagging cough not unlike the cough my father had from more than 20 years of smoking. Ensuring his health was important to us and that same importance applies to the work that I do at AISC. With many of our programs involving strenuous activity -- sports practices, ASAs, PE classes, swim lessons and even play during lunch or recess -- we've had the luxury of not needing to pay too much attention to Chennai's air quality other than a few times of the year. This week broke that blissful ignorance.
While a little off-balance in our reaction, we knew what we needed to do, and fortunately plenty of other schools have established guidelines that we could use to help us shape our policies. We actually had draft procedures that were worked up over the past few years that just needed to be adopted and publicized.
Here are the air quality and use of outdoor facilities guidelines we'll use moving forward. One important note is that parents can, at any time, opt their children out of activities if they are concerned about their child's health. This week I did circulate a list of the students that have asthma to the PE teachers and coaches as a reminder that some of our students may be more susceptible to respiratory illness.
Please bear with us if next week causes further disruptions to our planned outdoor activities. We're keeping your children's health in mind while still trying to ensure we have productive time. We'll modify when we can, but at times there may be postponements or even cancellations of activities.
While a little off-balance in our reaction, we knew what we needed to do, and fortunately plenty of other schools have established guidelines that we could use to help us shape our policies. We actually had draft procedures that were worked up over the past few years that just needed to be adopted and publicized.
Here are the air quality and use of outdoor facilities guidelines we'll use moving forward. One important note is that parents can, at any time, opt their children out of activities if they are concerned about their child's health. This week I did circulate a list of the students that have asthma to the PE teachers and coaches as a reminder that some of our students may be more susceptible to respiratory illness.
Please bear with us if next week causes further disruptions to our planned outdoor activities. We're keeping your children's health in mind while still trying to ensure we have productive time. We'll modify when we can, but at times there may be postponements or even cancellations of activities.
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Season 2 Elementary ASA registration form has closed. On Thursday we mailed out the registrations, but walk ins and emailed change requests are fine for the next week. We will email out the amounts due after the end of the first week of ASAs.
