Congratulations! Today marks the last day of the 2019-2020 school year. To say it ended differently than it started would be an understatement. None of us could have imagined where this year would take us.
However, we moved successfully through an incredibly challenging time in a true partnership. We want to thank the entire Serra community for this tremendous collaboration, particularly over the past three months. We thank you, our parents and guardians, for your feedback, patience, flexibility, and trust as we refined our distance learning program to optimize student learning. Your input allowed us to pivot effectively and find a successful direction to head.
We extend deep gratitude for the dedication of the faculty and staff who rose to the occasion with little time to prepare. Classes continued without an interruption in the flow of curriculum. Our faculty adjusted quickly to educating and motivating in a virtual space far different from the traditional classroom.
We are proud of your sons, our students, who are the Padre brotherhood. They had to shift from a social learning environment to an isolated one. They had to force themselves out of bed and into the living room to learn. No theater, no clubs, no sports, no meeting with friends in the classrooms and hallways. When we look at the success of our students this year, we realize how effectively they made this transition.
This success only highlights the partnership of parents, faculty and students that is the hallmark of a Serra education.
As we close out this year, we hope you will join us in congratulating our outgoing Class of 2020, a tremendously resilient group of young men who are leaving Serra to attend some of the finest colleges and universities in the country. Please see our baccalaureate liturgy this evening at 5:30 p.m. and the virtual graduation ceremony tomorrow at 10 a.m. to watch your Padre brothers celebrate this academic milestone. (Links to the events and additional graduation information can be found on the
Serra website
.)
On Monday, we go back to work to continue planning for our return to school in August. Stay tuned. Next week we will begin communicating our planning process and the ways in which you can provide input.
Thank you for entrusting your sons to our care.
Siempre Adelante,
