Happy Holidays OPRF! See you in 2017!

 

The Studio Art Gallery is LIT 🔥

Please take a moment to visit the Studio Art Gallery on the 2nd Floor.  It is absolutely amazing!  For us non-millennials out there....LIT means really really awesome, turnt up, etc.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Natalie Ungaretti....50 Meter State Champion

This just in....by 1/100 of a second...our very own Natalie Ungaretti has won the 50 meter freestyle!

Congratulations Natalie!  We are so proud of you!

OPRF GIRLS SWIMMING STATE CHAMPION 200 METER RELAY!

Congratulations to our  2016 GIRLS STATE CHAMPION 200 Medley Winners:

Natalie Ungaretti
Hanna Blankemeier
Alex Gill
Samm Nielson

What an awesome performance!  Here are some pics from yesterday's preliminary races at Evanston:

Congratulations Ms. Linda Carlson!

Physical Education Teacher of the Year!  Please congratulate Ms. Carlson on this wonderful accomplishment!

Our Marching Huskies

Good Morning-


Here is an awesome story from the Wednesday Journal about our Marching Huskies.  Congratulations on an awesome season!

More than just crowd appeal

http://www.oakpark.com/News/Articles/11-9-2016/More-than-just-crowd-appeal/

What do you say?

Good Afternoon-


I know it's been a while since my last blog, but I thought that I would share this on behalf of our students expressing concerns regarding the outcome of the election based upon some of the verbiage used by President Elect Trump during the campaign:


What should I say to my students after the election if Trump wins?” a principal asked me recently. Good question. What should we tell our children?

 

Tell them, first, that we will protect them. Tell them that we have democratic processes in the U.S. that make it impossible for one mean person to do too much damage...

Tell them, second, that you will honor the outcome of the election, but that you will fight bigotry. Tell them bigotry is not a democratic value, and that it will not be tolerated at your school. Tell them you stand by your Muslim families...  Your gay students. Your Black families. Your female students. Your Mexican families. Your disabled students. Your immigrant families. Your trans students. Your Native students. Tell them you won’t let anyone hurt them or deport them or threaten them without having to contend with you first. Say that you will stand united as a school community, and that you will protect one another. Say that silence is dangerous, and teach them how to speak up when something is wrong. Then teach them how to speak up, how to love one another, how to understand each other, how to solve conflicts, how to live with diverse and sometimes conflicting ideologies, and give them the skills to enter a world that doesn’t know how to do this...

Teach them, third, how to be responsible members of a civic society. Teach them how to engage in discussion—not for the sake of winning, but for the sake of understanding and being understood. Students need to learn how to check facts, to weigh news sources, to question taken-for-granted assumptions, to see their own biases, to take feedback, to challenge one another. We need to teach students how to disagree—with love and respect..."

My hope is that this will provide some direction for us all as we continue to move forward in unity as a nation.

Thanks Khalida!