Lutherville Families,
I decided to write you all this week given the event in Tennessee on Monday.
Monday morning here at Lutherville we completed a safety drill with our students practicing what they would do if there were an intruder in our school. Our drill concluded ~13 minutes before police in Tennessee received their first phone call notifying them of the intruder in a school in Nashville. As our children returned to classrooms and carried on with their learning and their day, other children's lives were being changed forever, or lost entirely.
And as Monday continued -- for us -- we planted trees.
Planting a tree is an act of faith, an act of hope. On our back fields right now you can see fledgling trees juxtaposed against huge stumps of trees taken down in recent years. The contrast is stark seeing such meager, tiny trunks against the scattered, thick stumps. It shows how much growth is ahead of those young trees.
Each student packed some mulch around one of the young trees placed in the earth. They placed their thumb-print on a slate marker to identify that this was their tree and their class will care for it.
Those small trees, planted and cared for in hope and expectation for their growth -- it's a pretty good metaphor for the work we do at Lutherville. The rest of this week we had teacher candidates visiting and interviewing each morning. I got to share with them our mission of helping build foundations for excellence in each child, and helping them to live in harmony with themselves, each other, and the world around them. I got to describe the incredibly caring staff and community. And as each visitor walked the halls for arrival and visited classrooms for morning work and morning meetings, each commenting on the joy and relationships they could see and feel in the building.
We are lucky to do such meaningful work, and we do it postured in the same faith as planting those trees -- in hope that our students will grow up strong, and help lead us to a world where incidents like those in Nashville on Monday are a thing of the past.
Thank you, Lutherville Families, for trusting us on that journey, and each day along the way.
-Mr. McComb
Calendar Reminders
March 31st -- Spring Break Begins at end of the day
April 11th -- Schools Reopen
April 14th -- Yearbook order deadline
April 21st -- Schools Closed (professional development)
