Sunday, February 16, 2014

TOMMIE SAYLOR: The Kennedy staff is my Valentine!



“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”  
Blaise Pascal

By Tommie Saylor
Kennedy High School Principal

Valentine’s Day.

The true origins of this “Hallmark Holiday” have long since been lost to the annals of time.  Some say it began with the Romans, where an individual later identified as Saint Valentine conducted marriages between soldiers, who were forbidden to marry in ancient times, to their young maidens.  

Still others recognize the association of romantic love and Valentine’s Day with the author Geoffrey Chaucer from the Middle Ages, where courtly love entered mainstream society.  

Either way, in modern times Valentine’s Day has become a day in which we tell those with whom we care about that they are precious to us.

With this in mind, I would like to say that the entire Kennedy High School staff is my Valentine.  I care for you deeply.  Witnessing every day how you care for your students, how you fulfill their needs, how you feed them when they are hungry, clothe them when they are cold, nurture them when they are distraught and how you place their needs before your own. Or how you expand their minds and sooth their souls, and at the end of the day when you are tired and mentally drained, how you return to support your students efforts and cheer them on at the game.  

Simply, because you do what you do, your students’ lives are richer, and for this you are most precious to me, my sweet Valentines.

Remember, their future is in our hands. Making Kennedy the school of choice. Excellence by design.

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