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COVID-19 Community Update #13 – April 16, 2020
Pittsfield Families, We hope that you and your family are enjoying good health; we thank our many Pittsfield families for stepping up in your strong support of Pittsfield students. We recognize that the pandemic is creating a stressful burden for many of our families, and we appreciate your commitment to collaboration for our students’ benefit….
School District Energy Options
Last fall, a group of interested Pittsfield citizens – including both members of the public and school officials – convened to review the district’s energy needs and consider options for future energy sources. The group recommended to the School Board that an energy audit be conducted to provide the community with current information and efficiency…
Safe Schools: Everyone Has a Role
On the day after the 9/11 attacks, an executive for a New York advertising agency that included New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority as one of its clients wrote down an idea for a slogan that he hoped would save lives: If You See Something, Say Something. It didn’t take long for our U.S. Department of…
COVID-19 Community Update #26 – June 25, 2020
Pittsfield Families, Our seniors and families were disappointed to have our commencement ceremony rained out last Sunday in Manchester. We look forward to great weather and a wonderful ceremony tomorrow evening at 6:00 p.m. The ceremony will be live-streamed; the link is available on the district website. Reminder that headings in BOLD indicate that new…
41.1%
When our high school students completed our most recent Youth Risk Behavior Survey in the early spring of 2017, 41.1% said YES to the question Have you ever used an electronic vapor product? In the same survey, 27.2% of our high school students said YES to the question During the past 30 days, how many…
Understanding Bullying
Pittsfield School Board Policy JICK defines bullying consistently with state law as follows: Bullying is hereby defined as a single significant incident or a pattern of incidents involving a written, verbal, or electronic communication, or a physical act or gesture, or any combination thereof, directed at another pupil which: Physically harms a pupil or damages the…