In addition to this email, we will be sharing the following message with all of our students via Schoology that we hope will serve as a guide for all of our young men.
As a Lasallian Catholic community, we ground ourselves in the value of serving others, especially the poor and marginalized, and in our core principles of Respect for All Persons, Inclusive Community, and Faith in the Holy Presence of God.
We recognize that our students, families, and colleagues feel the weight of the tragic events of the past few weeks both deeply and personally. From the Ahmaud Arbery case in Georgia to Breonna Taylor in Louisville to Christian Cooper in New York to George Floyd in Minneapolis, combined with the disproportionate impact that the Covid-19 pandemic has had on communities of color, we can plainly see how much work is still needed by all of us to confront systemic racism and injustice in all forms.
In this environment, our faith and our Lasallian charism calls on all of us to use our voices, our actions, our prayers, and our hearts to speak and act in ways that are actively anti-racist, to work to eliminate poverty, and to create equity in all the spaces and places we inhabit. As an administration, faculty, and staff we have committed ourselves to this work and will continue to infuse this into our curriculum, our school culture, and to share it with our wider De La Salle family.
St. John Baptist de La Salle – Pray for us!
Live Jesus in our Heart – Forever!
President's Cabinet
De La Salle High School
