Tomorrow is a big day for high school parents here in the North Kitsap School District. An opportunity that shouldn’t be missed. What exactly is going on in the NKSD and how are your children being affected?

That’s a huge question but one that district officials will attempt to put their arms around as they host informational forums on what really matters in the NKSD — the students.

Small Learning Communities and drugs and alcohol are first on an agenda that will hopefully live up to its billing and separate myth from reality. It’s not always as easy as one might think but even so, starting out with such topics shows one thing for certain: The NKSD isn’t tiptoeing around hard- to-tackle issues.

The 7 p.m. session at the high school commons launches a series of similar discussions with the aim of informing parents. Too often students and their parents are unable to bridge communication gaps and the age-old question “How was your day at school?” gets the age-old response of “Fine.”

While overcoming this chasm takes work on both sides, we see that the parents education about NKHS is just as important as the one students receive at it.

Parents who aren’t in the know may accept “fine” as an answer — parents who don’t are much more likely to engage their children in a dialogue about the trials and tribulations of school life.

These focus meetings are about creating and/or improving that dialogue between parents and their children. What could be more important than that?