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“An excellent Catholic school is driven and guided by a clearly communicated mission that embraces a Catholic identity that includes gospel values, a focus on the Eucharist, and a commitment to communal faith formation, academic excellence, missionary discipleship, and service.”

Children in this country have been done the great disservice of being disallowed to fail. Failure is not taught in schools—nor in the current culture generally. Failure has been replaced with lessons on entitlement with self-esteem as a virtue.

This column will explore how both educators and parents can help apply principals of TOB to all subjects and areas of student life. Literature is the focus of this month.

If you work for a parish, a school, or really in any ministry in the Archdiocese, it is easy to become jaded. If you have never experienced this, it is possible you just haven’t been around long enough…