Summer "Mailing"

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• from Director Phil Kassen

  August 2020

  
  

  Dear LREI Families, 

  
  

  We are only a few weeks away from my favorite day of the year - the first day of school!  Even though we won’t be together; even though I won’t be at the front doors to welcome you, I am still so eager for the year to begin, so eager to see your children, and to have them back in our classrooms, virtual and real.  It did not take long for us to become used to being away from each other and while we may have been slow to warm to our virtual schoolhouse, it has become almost normal.  Soon we will return to online school and then after a few short weeks we will be back together in person; in a whole new way but in person nonetheless.  In both modes we will be reunited, together, doing purposeful work.  A community once again.  

  
  

  What does community mean in a time when we are anxious about being near each other? How do you foster a community at a time when the very nature of the most mundane human interactions has fundamentally changed? What does community mean at a moment which demands that we honestly acknowledge and accept responsibility for the fact that our community is not experienced in the same way by each of its members, to say the very least?   What does community mean when we recognize that many members do not trust that the community has their best interests in mind?  What does it mean to grapple with these questions at a time when we need to rely on each other as keenly as we ever have?
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