A. Being that HSW dismissal is at 2:35pm, if a parent/guardian is looking to pick up their child prior to this time, they are to have their child drop off a note to the Attendance Office indicating the time they are to be picked up. In these instances, parents/guardians can park their car in the Main Lot and wait for their child to come out to meet them. If they need to pick up their child between 2:35 and 2:46pm when the buses depart HSW, they are to park in the Gowana Pool Parking Lot and their child is to meet them there, staying on the sidewalk until they get to the parking lot.
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11/30/21 – Where should I park when picking up my child at HSW between 2:30-2:40pm? – Parent
November 30th, 2021 by lindsay.valenti11/29/21 – Why is the TI CONNECT CE App blocked on the chrome web store for chromebooks? Is it against the rules of Shen to have useful programs on your calculator? – Student
November 29th, 2021 by lindsay.valentiA. IMS had to remove the TI Connect CE App because we had a temporary license during the COVID-19 shutdown but we didn’t have it after June.
11/18/21 – Hi, I was wondering why the high school lunches are being switched to three forty minute lunches. There will be way more people in each lunch than there is currently and that’s doesn’t seem safe in terms of COVID spread. Also it takes so long to get through the lunch line already and this will just make it even longer. I remember when I was a freshman and sophomore we had the period schedule and there was always four lunches because of the amount of kids in each lunch. So why, during covid times, are we packing more kids into the cafeteria when we don’t have enough space currently with the four lunches. Also, the overlapping time is really helpful for meeting with teachers if you have an adjacent lunch to theirs and you don’t have any other time to ask them questions or meet with them. Please reconsider having three lunches and keep the four lunches! Thank you. – Student
November 18th, 2021 by lindsay.valentiA. It is because of the overlapping lunches. When we had 4 – 40min lunches during the 120 min block 3 we ended up with a total of 40 min that saw 50% of the students in lunch at a given time. With the change we never see more than 33% of the school eating lunch at once. It is actually a reduction.
11/15/21 – Why did Pixlr get blocked? Some people use it for class assignments. – Student
November 15th, 2021 by lindsay.valentiA. Pixlr was removed due to the company’s refusal to sign an EdLaw 2d compliance statement. Without it, we had no control over our student’s data and the company advertises that it collects personal data and sells it to 3rd party partners.
11/15/21 – Hello. Many students including myself recently learned of a program that allows teachers to view the screens of students’ chromebooks from their desks to make sure they are doing their work. While I personally have no problem with this inside of school, can the application be used on the students outside of school, and can the application access the webcam of students’ chromebooks? Thank you. – Student
November 15th, 2021 by lindsay.valentiA. It is true that we’ve deployed software to better equip our teaching staff with a means of keeping students focused on classwork during the school day. This software cannot leverage a device’s webcam regardless of whether it is a district issued or privately owned device. We have also put limitations in that automatically end all sessions at the end of normal school hours, and prevents new ones from being created until the start of the next school day. The software is also disabled on weekends and we intend to disable it on break weeks as well.
11/12/21 – Where can parents find tutoring information? The links on the counseling page cannot be accessed without a student school account. – Parent
November 12th, 2021 by lindsay.valentiA. Tutoring resources can be found on the Counseling, College & Career page under Shen links along the right side: https://sites.google.com/shenschools.org/hs-counseling-college-career/home.
11/8/21 – Why do some sports charge admission for regular season games, does the school keep that money? – Community Member
November 8th, 2021 by lindsay.valentiA. Some sports charge due to the number of people that are needed to provide chaperone coverage for those events. All gate receipts go to the general fund.
11/8/21 – Shen should add a UK flag to the Flag collection in HSE. – Student
November 8th, 2021 by lindsay.valentiA. The flags have represented students that have attended Shenendehowa.
11/8/21 – The voluntary testing for COVID,of the unvaccinated children, what chemicals are in the swabs used for the test? – Kelly Rysedorph – Parent
November 8th, 2021 by lindsay.valentiA. The company used for the COVID testing is Quadrant and that information is posted under their FAQ’s: https://quadrantbiosciences.com/frequently-asked-questions?hsLang=en.
11/8/21 – Please find a better way to keep parents out of the student parking lot. There are far too many of them at the end of the day and the overcrowding makes trying to get out of the lot as a student extremely stressful and borderline dangerous. They should not be allowed into the parking lot when not even half of our grade can get a pass to park in there. They can use the circle like everyone else. – Student
November 8th, 2021 by lindsay.valentiA. Campus security monitors the situation daily.
