Community
Service and Charitable Projects
Each Catholic school offers its students the opportunity to
participate in a variety of community-service projects. Such activities reinforce an
attitude of Christian charity and service toward others and prepare students to accept
their social responsibilities. Examples of these projects include food, toy, and clothing
drives for the poor; visits to nursing homes and senior citizen centers; litter clean-up;
and sending CARE packages to third-world countries. Service hours may be required of
students and/or school families.
Extra-Curricular Activities
Catholic schools also provide a
variety of extra-curricular athletic options. We believe that athletics provide important
opportunities to teach students the value of teamwork, school pride, self-discipline,
healthy competition, and the art of gracefully accepting success and defeat. However,
athletics are to be kept in perspective to the overall mission of Catholic education. The
archdiocese is very strict in its policy toward sporting events: that they not be overly
emphasized and that students not be overly pressured about their performance in such
events.
To this end, the archbishop has
directed that there are to be no school-sponsored athletic activities on Good Friday or at
times that conflict with the fulfillment of Sunday or other liturgical obligations. School
policy also stipulates that no student may be absent from school for a school-related,
extra-curricular activity in excess of fifteen days per semester, and no class may be
missed in excess of fifteen times per semester. |
