“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of
enthusiasm.”
-- Winston Churchill
By Tommie Saylor
Kennedy High School Principal
We stand at the precipice of another school year, and as such, the
possibilities are endless. No one knows for certain what is in store for
us, though we make plans and prepare for the upcoming school year with visions
of perfect scenarios playing in our heads like home movies.
We hope that all our students come to us prepared to learn,
knowing that many will not. We hope to draw the very best out of our
students, knowing that some will not give their best. We hope to fill all
our student’s needs and that while at school they feel safe, valued and
important. We hope that they know that we truly care.
For this reason we rededicate ourselves to the pursuit of perfection,
to chasing every student and smothering them with kindness, discipline,
direction, while giving them a sense of purpose and inspiring them to
greatness. We few, we precious few who often stand as the only positive
thing in many of our students lives, rededicate ourselves to give our students
every bit of essence we have.
But until then, we must prepare. We must harvest our strength
that has been growing over the rehabilitating summer months, tweak our lessons
to best suit the needs of our students, and “get our minds right” for the
upcoming marathon.
I am confident, that when the opening bell sounds, like prize
fighters coming out of their corners for the first time, you will be strong,
prepared, and eager. That you have set yourselves to the task, and that
together in our unified strength our students will advance to levels previously
thought unobtainable. I feel that this will be our best year yet.
What starts here, changes the world.
Making Kennedy the school of choice. Excellence by design.
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