We have been trying to show our
appreciation to you more and more
for supporting our school. We have
long wanted a website that we could
use to give you more ways to keep in
touch with us and let you know
what events are going on at the
school. It is important to us that
you see what heroes you are to us
and what your donations provide
to our students. Without your
support neither myself, nor the
Brothers, Sister and other teachers could do what we love so much:
educating our next generation of Catholics!
Please feel free to browse through the site. New information will
be posted there as time goes on. Thank you again for being our hero!
-Headmaster Brad Grinstead
Click here to see our new website.
Electronic Devices in Our Families
(An essay written by one of our students.)
What is the most important thing in the
world to you? Other than God and my
Faith, my family is number one to me.
If you think about it, families are what
make or break us as a society; they are
the building blocks that hold us up.
And when they break or fall, so do the
rest of us.
What is making the families break? I
think it has a lot to do with electronic devices such as ipods, iphones,
tablets, televisions, and the many other gadgets that so many people
own. Don’t get me wrong- I don’t think that these devices alone are
tearing us apart, but the addictive way people use them. They start to
need the devices to function, and their minds get clogged up so they
stop thinking straight. These people lose touch with reality; they stop
seeing the people and things around them and get distracted from what
matters in this life- family and the relationships we have with them and
the rest of the world. They become selfish and start thinking only of what’s
going on on their devices. I don’t need statistics to back me up-just take
a look around! We see people ignoring each other or putting off
relationships for more time with their TVs or the people online. F
amilies are broken because the people in them are not working together.
Some social people might say that these devices are bringing us more
together as a society; people are communicating more than they ever
could before! Yes, this is true- people can talk over long distances and
to many more individuals now. All this is good to a certain degree, but
when people online start becoming more important than the people at
home, it becomes anti-social because these people are wasting their time
with strangers online rather than talking to the people who matter and
are right there for them. I’m not saying that we should only talk to our
families, or that we should talk to everyone around us on the streets!
I’m saying that we should pay more attention to those who are
important to us and not offend them by preferring strangers online.
-Maria, age 17
Sister Mary Joseph’s Puzzle Corner
Two of Europe's top spies met in England,
to exchange information. They were using
a new secret code. Can you break this code
in 15 minutes or less? Here is a hint:
This code, like many others, was created by
rearranging the sequence of the letters in the
alphabet. It is often referred to as
"The Looking Glass Code."
1st Spy: "WRW BLF TVG NB KSLGLH
LU GSV VMVNB'H MVD HVXIVG DVZKLM?"
2nd Spy: "BVH, BLF WLOG! RG GFIMVW LFG GL YV Z KOZM
ULI Z MVD VOVXGIRX VTTYZGVI!
The Solution to Last Month's Puzzle:
Q. Four Homeowners went to a hardware store to buy something.
One of the home-owners bought one for just $1.00. Seven is also
$1.00, but ninteen costs $2.00. If they needed one hundred twenty
five, the total cost would have been $3.00. Even if they ordered
four hundred, they will still only pay $3.00. Each home-owner
bought what they needed and the total was $4.00.
What did they buy?
A. Numbers for their houses.
No comments:
Post a Comment