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VIDA
Weekly Newsletter 7/28/24
Welcome Back Sharks!
Welcome Back!
Hey Sharks!
We hope you had an amazing summer and we are looking forward to seeing you on the first day of school which is Thursday, August 15th. Please check out the video above and the graphic below for more information about our Drive-through Registration.
2024-25 Drive Through Registration Dates!!!!
Drive Through Registration is where you get your textbooks, sign-up for PTA, get your class schedule, and more!
August 6th = 8th grade
August 7th = 7th grade
August 8th = 6th grade
8:00am-1:00pm
Bell Schedule 2024-25
- Late Start Monday is back! Monday school starts at 10:00am.
- Schools begins @ 9:00am Tuesday - Friday.
- School ends @ 3:35pm
- Mondays are "All Periods"
- Tuesdays & Thursdays are "Odd Blocks" + Design Lab/Lunch
- Wednesdays & Fridays are "Even Blocks" + Design Lab/Lunch
The first week of school schedule;
- Thursday, 8/15: ALL CLASSES
- Friday, 8/16: CAMP VIDA Special Schedule
We have 312 PTA members so far this year! Have you joined yet?
To pay your dues and automatically receive our PTA Newsletter. CLICK HERE:
follow us on Instagram and/or Facebook and visit our website at www.vidapta.org for more information and for ways to be engaged.
VIDA PTA FARM BOX
- For information and to Order a Farm Box: Visit the PTA Website
VUSD Calendar & VIDA Bell Schedule
- This will help you know when schools are closed when there are Minimum Days, and when the school year ends.
This is the Bell Schedule for different days by Grade Level and Days: CLICK HERE
- Mondays are LATE START. Students attend all classes. School begins 10:00am.
- Tuesday & Thursday are "ODD Blocks" + Lunch & Design Lab. School begins 9:00am.
- Wednesdays & Fridays are "EVEN Blocks" + Lunch & Design Lab. School begins 9:00am.
- School ends at 3:35 pm, every day unless there is an official Minimum Day.
What is Damon reading?
The Anxious Generation
In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the “play-based childhood” began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the “phone-based childhood” in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this “great rewiring of childhood” has interfered with children’s social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies.
Most importantly, Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the “collective action problems” that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free. He describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane childhood.
Haidt has spent his career speaking truth backed by data in the most difficult landscapes—communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the public health emergency faced by Gen Z. We cannot afford to ignore his findings about protecting our children—and ourselves—from the psychological damage of a phone-based life.
AP(P)EX Award
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How Do We Make Beautiful Work?
FLO
Exciting Opportunities to do More! Including On-Line Foreign Language Learning
Connect With Us
Email: vidasharks@gmail.com
Website: www.VIDASHARKS.com
Phone: 760.724.7115
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vida.sharks.5
Twitter: @VIDASHARKS
Assurance of Nondiscrimination
Vista Unified School District prohibits unlawful discrimination, including discriminatory harassment, intimidation, and bullying in educational programs, activities, or employment, based on actual or perceived race, color, ancestry, national origin, nationality, immigration status, ethnicity, ethnic group identification, age, religion, marital or parental status, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender-identity, or gender expression, or association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics. VUSD requires that school personnel take immediate steps to intervene when safe to do so when he or she witnesses an act of discrimination, harassment, intimidation or bullying.
For questions, concerns or complaints, please contact District Equity and Title IX Compliance Officer: Dr Cheree McKean, Executive Director - Student Support Services; 1234 Arcadia Avenue, Vista, CA 92084; (760) 726-2170; chereemckean@vistausd.org