My Internship Year At St. Rita Catholic School - 999 Words

As I reflect on my internship year and first year at St. Rita Catholic School in Dallas, I have only become more entrenched in what I believe the root beliefs, shared purpose, and core values of an ideal school should be. Especially for a school with similar demographics and culture as that of St. Rita. My first root belief was that our school community believes that every child can and will learn. On the surface level at St. Rita, it appears that our school believes in this. St. Rita does a particularly good job at ensuring this with elementary students as there are many supports- including Tier 2 and Tier 3 supports, in place to help students. The conflict with this belief comes later on when if a student by the time they reach 4th grade†¦show more content†¦At. St. Rita, the students are from a very high SES. As a result, they are very cultured and often know things beyond what they should. This is in part due to the culture of our families, as many of the parents are not always around, instead a nanny or house manager present. Unfortunately, even when parents are around many of them have misguided perceptions of success and only care about social status and money. This in turn also heavily influences how our students think and view the world, especially students who hav e reached middle school age. By virtue of their wealth and zip code, many of these students will probably go on to be leaders- or at least hold leadership positions. We need to empower them to be civically engaged and active in their school, parish and community. We to want to help prepare them for their future careers. In a world that is becoming ever more connected and complex, we want those making decisions to be rooted in the Gospel and guided by a moral compass. A third root belief was that our school community believes that we serve God by serving others. This is very personal to me as I strongly believe that there is no greater joy in life than to serve a cause greater than oneself. For me that cause is to help form young men and women into leaders of character. Students at St. Rita do several service projects each year, especially those that are active in different leadership clubs. We even have a project at Christmas where we adopt