Initial Thoughts & Questions

Here's me at 5:00 on Tuesday:
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     My wife and I were out for a walk, and a friend from church called to tell us the news.  At first, I thought this friend had just misunderstood something but no, it's real.

     You guys might not know this, but I deal with anxiety sometimes, like some of you do.  I usually do a pretty good job of handling and/or hiding it, and it's not a constant battle, but big things like this trigger it, understandably.  It helps to talk to someone, so I talked with my wife (of course) and my older brother, and that helped me process some of it.  I think I'll call my mom too.  Writing this blog post also helped.
     A hundred questions ran through my mind, and since I assume that's true for you also, I wanted to give you some initial thoughts of how we might handle it, but the school asked teachers not to give out any specifics yet.  Sorry. :-)
​     Anyway, staff are going in next week to discuss the plan, so we'll figure it out.  In fact, the administrators are already working on it, so it's going to be okay.  We're living in a time of terrific technological opportunities, and we've already come up with several cool ideas.

But most importantly,
​we're in this together!  

For the record: This is NOT to be considered an official answer from EHS or USD490.  This is just JBJ.