April 13, 2020
Dear Parent/Guardian,
As most of you know the district has been working with the Meals-To-You program to provide meals for our students during this time of extended closure.
We were notified by the program administrators, after our attempt to automatically enroll all students that we could not do so. Therefore, we had to do an additional verification with all families to get their permission to enroll their children for the program in a very short amount of time. We were able to make contact with many of our families to verify directory information such as home addresses, email addresses and children’s date of births. Although, multiple attempts were made, over several days, to reach families by phone we were unable to get in contact with some parents for a variety of reasons, among them: unanswered calls, blocked calls, incorrect numbers, etc.
We have been informed by the Meals-To-You program that our enrollment window has been closed. If you did not receive an email from the Meals-To-You program in the last few days, this likely means we were not able to complete the confirmation process with you and, therefore, will not be receiving the meals we had hoped you would be able to receive.
The Meals-To-You program has indicated that should we get another enrollment opportunity, they will notify us. At that time, we would immediately begin the process of verifying information for those students by phone or emails.
Within, the last few weeks the district’s Child Nutrition Program donated many meal items such as fresh fruits and food products to the City of Mission Food Pantry. We were notified that hundreds of families were served with nutritional food preparation items during the last couple of weeks. We will continue to explore other options with the hopes we can help those in need during this difficult time.
Sincerely,
Dr. Carol G. Perez
Superintendent
13 de abril
Estimado Padre/Tutor,
Queremos informales que el distrito ha estado trabajando con el programa Meals-To-You para proporcionar comidas a nuestros estudiantes durante este tiempo de cierre prolongado.
Los administradores del programa nos notificaron, después de nuestro intento de inscribir automáticamente a todos los estudiantes, que una verificación adicional de todas las familias tendría que completarse en muy poco tiempo. Pudimos hacer contacto con muchas de nuestras familias para verificar la información del directorio, como las direcciones de domicilio, correo electrónicos y la fecha de nacimiento de los niños. Durante varios días se hicieron múltiples intentos de llamarles a todas las familias por teléfono. Desafortunadamente, no pudimos comunicarnos con muchos padres por una variedad de razones, entre ellas: llamadas sin respuesta, llamadas bloqueadas, números incorrectos, etc.
Hemos sido informados por el programa de comidas de que nuestra oportunidad de inscripción ha sido cerrada. Si no recibió un correo electrónico del programa Meals-to-You en los últimos días, esto probablemente significa que no pudimos completar el proceso de confirmación con usted y, por lo tanto, no recibirán las comidas que esperábamos que pudiera recibir.
El programa de Meals-to-You ha indicado que por si caso tenemos otra oportunidad de inscripción, nos lo notificarán. En ese momento, inmediatamente comenzaríamos el proceso de verifiación de información para esos estudiantes por teléfono o correos electronicos.
Dentro de las últimas semanas, el Programa de Nutrición del distrito donó muchos alimentos, como frutas frescas y productos de alimenticios a la despensa de alimentos de la ciudad de Mission. Se nos notificó que cientos de familias fueron atendidas con alimentos nutricionales durante las últimas dos semanas. Seguiremos explorando otras opciones con la esperanza de poder ayudar a los necesitados durante este difícil momento.
Atentamente,
La Dra. Carol G. Pérez
Superintendente