“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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