Dear Miraloma Community,

 

I am writing with both sadness and excitement with the news that I will be moving to Portland, Oregon over the summer, and will not be back at Miraloma for the 2016/17 school year. This move has been a long time coming, both because I have family in Portland, and because Geo and I made long-term plans to move several years ago. Geo received an amazing job offer in the Portland area, and it is an opportunity we cannot pass up.

 

I have been at Miraloma for the past six school years, and I believe that I will never again find a school community such as ours. The staff and families at Miraloma support a public school in a way that I never thought possible before finding myself here. Miraloma is a school dedicated to the idea that no matter the student, we can come together to help them achieve more than even they thought they could; dedicated to the idea that our students are the most precious thing to us because they represent what could be.

 

Although I would love to stay here at Miraloma, here in San Francisco, and here in California, my wife and I would like to start a family and buy a house of our own. While I wish it were the case, it simply isn't something we can do in much of the Bay Area.

 

I will miss all of the students and families I've had the fortune to get to know during my time here, and I know that our amazing staff and administration will be thoughtful and deliberate in their choice to fill the vacant position I leave. I am confident that your amazing first grade and kindergarten students will have just as an amazing second-grade year as any I could provide them.

 

With Love,

Patrick