Safety in Sag Harbor
Michelle Grant, the Sag Harbor Elementary School guidance counselor, will soon embark on her annual lessons on personal safety. The program covers fire safety, seatbelt rules, bullying, and recognizing signs of abuse, and generally “helps students learn how to seek help in unsafe situations,” Ms. Grant said in an email to families.
Tonight at 6:30, there will be an informational session via Google Meet for parents and guardians to learn more about this initiative, called the Yello-Dyno Personal Safety Program. It features a yellow dinosaur character to help kids understand the lessons.
The program puts the school district in compliance with a state law that requires “all students to be educated in child abuse education and abduction prevention.” The Google Meet link and a call-in phone number can be found in Ms. Grant’s letter to parents.
Help for Springs
Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. recently facilitated a $25,000 state grant, known as “bullet aid,” for the Springs School District.
“They get to decide how to spend the money,” Mr. Thiele said this week. “Springs, comparatively to some of the East End districts, is not the wealthiest district, and they’ve just gone through a building program, so they were a perfect candidate for bullet aid.”
Springs has received a few of these grants over the past several years, including one in 2019 that the district used for a robotics program.