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Our Lady Help of Christians Home and School Association
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Governing Principles |
| The Home and School Association is an adult education program for both
teachers and parents. It is an organization that provides teachers and
parents, as well as all other members of the parish, with an opportunity to
learn how to become effective teachers of the parish by bringing the home and
the school together so that both can share mutually their successes and
failures. |
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Primary Purpose: |
1. To develop skills for parents and teachers which are essential in the
fulfillment of the responsibilities in the proper training of children.
2. To give parents and teachers a means of sharing experiences for the
benefit of the child, the school, and the home. |
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Secondary Purpose: |
1. To help all parishioners learn more about education at the local,
state, and national levels, so that they can judge and act more
intelligently in these important matters.
2. To offer opportunities for all concerned to understand the Archdiocesan school program and the Catholic philosophy of education.
3. To offer the services and talents of the parishioners to the pastor
and the principal to aid and assist the educational process.
4. To acquaint the entire parish with the financial commitment needed to
maintain a Catholic school. |
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Object: |
| The objective of this association shall be the advancement of the
Catholic education and the welfare of all school children of this parish.
Further, it shall attempt to enhance the parents' and the teachers' role
in the education of the child by increasing their knowledge of
education and its processes, by increasing their mutual understanding of
children and also by providing an opportunity for parents and teachers
to work together for the good of the child. Finally, it shall be to act in the promotion of parent-school activities
and to increase among its members, interest in educational and civic
affairs. |
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