PARENTAL COOPERATION
We are committed as a school community to have your sons and daughters discover the God-given gifts they have already been given, to know they have an obligation to develop those gifts, and ultimately to use those gifts in service to others. When your sons and daughters graduate from St Ignatius Church on the first Saturday in June after four years at St. Ignatius, they will have been through much (as you and we will have been). Hopefully they will have begun to approximate our The Grad at Grad: Profile 2020: Open to Growth, Intellectually Competent, Religious, Loving, Committed to Justice, and Leaders in Collaboration.
Our wish is that their experience at this Jesuit high school will have prepared them to know how to make decisions about their lives that are well-informed, moral, just, and compassionate. We make this wish in partnership with you. Together we will grow as well. Together we will need the courage to give them the direction and care they need.
In that regard, their developing attitudes and behaviors in and out of the classroom, on and off campus, are crucial in this process of adolescent formation. It’s not just that what they do and how they act represent and reflect upon St Ignatius; it’s more than that. Their approach to being young men and women for and with others is their receptivity and practice of what they are exposed to in this ministry. Consequently, their actions and attitudes wherever they are: from the streets of San Francisco to the homes of friends and others; from their presence on the World Wide Web(the Internet) to their reaction to current adolescent culture – these are all witnesses to whether we are having any effect on their formation as young people. Failure to consistently demonstrate attitudes and behaviors that are consistent to the mission of the school at all times will place them in jeopardy of remaining in the community. Simply put, the student will be dismissed from Saint Ignatius.
As part of this partnership with us, you, the parents have responsibilities as well: to cooperate with school personnel when your son/daughter is being disciplined; to work respectfully with school personnel over disagreements in schedules, academic performance, rehearsals, practice, and playing time; to monitor the use of your home as a healthy gathering place for young people when appropriate; to participate with the school in the spiritual, moral formation of these charges of ours in all endeavors: academic, athletic, co-curricular, and Campus Ministry events.
It is an honor and a responsibility to go about the work of the ministry of the high school apostolate. We can’t do it in a vacuum; we can’t just pay “lip service” to the tenets and principles upon which the school was founded, has thrived, and has existed for these 150 years.
It’s a challenging world that awaits them when they leave; let us together, make sure that they are up to the challenges for college and beyond.