End of the Year UPdate
June 17, 2025
I get that question a good amount this time of year. It is hard not to respond with optimism and enthusiasm. After all, in one week’s time, I watched 5th and 6th graders end their year with a shrill (If you were there, you know what that means.). A few days later, I drove down Main Street with the Class of 2025 celebrating their graduation. And, by June 6, I was smiling ear to ear watching some of WLPS’ youngest students at Go Like The Wind’s End of Year Celebration. How was the year? It had its ups and downs, tragedies and triumphs, and it ended with lots of smiling faces.
This school year was also a scramble for resources - both human and financial resources. Thankfully, WLPS was able to hire people to drive buses, provide food, clean up at the end of each day, and help our students who need extra care. We were also able to secure financial resources to fix some of the building issues I shared with the community in the fall of 2024.
WLPS took a rare step this spring and leveraged its sinking funds to make repairs to its HVAC systems, many of which are running with control set points that cannot be adjusted. Fixing these systems is good news. The bad news? The replacement of our parking lots and sidewalks has to wait. But, I’ll have a plan in place to fix them until more resources can be secured. We are a classroom first type of district, but we want to look as good on the outside as we are on the inside. So, I’ll keep plugging away…I mean patching.
