Dear Parents and Students:
I hope that everyone enjoyed a long three-day President’s weekend with your families.
Please come out and support the
Men and Women’s Basketball teams
- both of whom play on Wednesday night in road games in round 3 of the NCS Playoffs. Both games are away and if we win we put ourselves in the NCS Finals. Our Women’s Soccer Team lost last week, but they had an incredible season, and I am so proud of all of the Women's Soccer players and Coach Berrios for a great accomplishment.
My thinking this week has been directed toward the subject of
reading
. A recent CNN survey has found that levels of TV viewing have increased exponentially over the past ten years especially in children ten or under. Instead of picking up a book, many kids, and I would dare say our own teens, default to their phone, TV, or social media - and you guessed it - not a book. And thus reading in our country has been on the decline. Interestingly, the SJND Reading scores on both the ACT and PSAT/SAT have increased each year for the past three years under the effective guidance and teaching of our English, History, and Theology departments, where students read a vast amount of material with the strong scaffolding of teacher support. Bravo!
As Principal, I feel a moral and ethical imperative to provide leadership on this topic because of the value I myself place on the “art of reading"...
