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Academic excellence is a requirement of justice. Our families sacrifice time, treasure and talent to enroll their children here and to maintain the school’s mission. All members of the staff have the proper training and certification/licensure to fulfill their roles as educators. Our history is full of accomplishments. Historically, many of the leaders in the local community have been alumni of Saint Mary School. Currently, three teachers are graduates of this school. However, providing a quality education is not reason enough to maintain a Catholic school. If that were our main concern, we would simply be active in assuring that the local public schools maintain excellence.
The Catholic school exists so that the Christian faith and identity of our community can be passed on to the next generation in the most effective and complete means possible. The freedom provided within the Catholic school to inform all areas of intellectual, artistic, athletic and spiritual growth with the Truth and the Person of Jesus Christ is unique and priceless. The Catholic school provides a context to grow in faith. The school works as a close partner with the family. The Catholic bishops of the United States insist in the National Directory for Catechesis:
"The Christian family is ordinarily the first experience of the Christian community and the primary environment for growth in faith. Because it is the “church of the home,” the family provides a unique locus for catechesis...Within the Christian family, parents are the primary educators in the faith and “the first heralds of the faith with regard to their children.” (101). -- National Directory for Catechesis (published in May 2005)
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