In Celebration of Catholic Schools
In two weeks, we celebrate Catholic schools week. I love how our celebration coincides with our Knights Move Olympics where our students are intentionally pursuing success in all aspects of what a quality Catholic education looks like. It is a celebration of the mind, body and spirit as it has been created by God for each person’s special purpose. A few years ago, I picked up a little publication called “The Holy See’s Teaching on Catholic Schools” by Archbishop J. Michael Miller CSB. As an educator and advocate of Catholic education, the text provides tremendous inspiration and motivation to pursue the mission of Jesus Christ as the core of learning.
- Parents are the first educators of their children. Schools are extensions of the home.
- Catholic education forms the whole child and seeks to fix his or her eyes on heaven. The specific purpose of a Catholic education is the formation of boys and girls who will be good citizens of this world, loving God and neighbor and enriching society with the leaven of the gospel, and who will also be citizens of the world to come, thus fulfilling their destiny to become saints.
- Elementary schools should try to create a community school climate that reproduces, as far as possible, the warm and intimate atmosphere of family life.
- Educators, administrators, parents, and bishops guide the school to make choices that promote “overcoming individualistic self-promotion, solidarity instead of competition, assisting the weak instead of marginalization, responsible participation instead of indifference.”
- Ensure that the student is seen as a person whose intellectual growth is harmonized with spiritual, religious, emotional, and social growth.
- From the first moment that a student sets foot in a Catholic school, he or she ought to have the impression of entering a new environment, one illumined by the light of faith, and having its own unique characteristic
This is what we strive for. This is what we work for at St. Dominic Catholic School. Interested in learning more? Come to our Open House on Sunday, January 30, from 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM and meet our school community, or contact our principal, Mrs. Jill Fischer at 262.783.7565 or for a conversation, a private school tour, or to have your child be a "Knight for Christ for a day!"