Superintendent's Message

Catholic Schools Dividends for Life

At a time when we so often hear about the high cost of Catholic Schools, it is refreshing to focus on their dividends. The theme for Catholic Schools Week lists these dividends as faith, knowledge, discipline and morals. These are major dividends
for life. We might think of our children’s education in terms of banking. This metaphor suggests that each day parents, teachers, priests and coaches offer their students the currency of values, information and practice. These educators encourage students
to bank or tuck away into their minds, hearts and souls what
they have learned. When a student does this, they build up an account where great dividends are accruing. When withdrawal time comes, the banking metaphor no longer fits. As you well know, when you withdraw money it soon diminishes. However, faith, knowledge, discipline and morals truly are renewable resources. In fact, they are self regenerating. The more students use knowledge, the wiser more intelligent  person they become. The more faith is practiced, the bigger the mountain a student
can move. The more discipline the students internalizes, the stronger their life habits become. Each moral decision made as
a child strengthens the will to “do good” as an adult.

As you can see, we count on Catholic Schools to pay big dividends to students.