Pictured here is my friend and soon to be 8th grader at Hillsdale Middle School, Matthew Kashat. Last week we had a great conversation about social media, responsible online behavior, and what the district should and should not control in terms of Chromebook wallpaper, Google Hangouts, and the like. Matthew suggested we have a contest where students across the district could submit their wall paper design to be voted on. The winning wall papers would appear on all student chromebooks and the school or classroom could win some small prize. What a great idea. We’ll try it out in June and see what the response is. Students will receive information through their chromebook wallpaper=)…. See our correspondence below. Very impressed by this bright and articulate student.
David
Hi Dr. Miyashiro! My name is Matthew Kashat and I am a 7th grader at Hillsdale Middle School. Lots of my classmates (including myself) have expressed strongly disliking the Chromebook default wallpaper, so I took it upon myself to reach out to you to see if it could please be changed. I think a great idea is to have a district wide contest cool artistic drawings, and could be like a monthly thing, but you do whatever you feel comfortable with doing.I hope my request came a cross clearly! If you could please respond back that be wonderful! Thank you for your consideration.
Thank You For your time,
Matthew A Kashat, 7th Grader
Hillsdale Middle School
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Dear Matthew,
Thank you so much for writing. I love that you’re taking action on your interests and ideas. I’ll be at Hillsdale on Friday visiting classrooms. I would love the opportunity to meet with you in person. Perhaps we can work out our visit schedule to allow for you to join us for lunch. If you’re interested in that I’d be very happy to hear more. If you’re available and interested in joining us for lunch, please let Mrs. Minjares know so we can plan on it. If not I can meet with you after school.
Sincerely,
David
David Miyashiro, Ed.D.
Superintendent
Cajon Valley Union School District