I reported to school this morning to start getting prepared for the return of our students and the many displaced students who will be joining our district. As of Friday afternoon, we had 600 new students register in the district. Registration will continue through Wednesday. Our students will return to school on Thursday.

There is a wonderful National Guard unit from South Carolina who is being housed at our school. They were supposed to move out tomorrow, but their departure has been delayed. I set up some "movie" rooms for them before I left work today so that they could have a movie night. They are sleeping in classrooms, the cafeteria, gym and library. My classroom has been set up as a communications center and has two officers sleeping in it. They having been helping with food, water and ice distribution as well as traffic control. This is some of their vehicles in the grass next to the school as I arrived early this morning.