Mater Dei High School

EDUCATIONAL GOALS

Mater Dei High School’s goals in educating its students are:

To provide opportunities for the student to learn about and practice the Roman Catholic faith through specific courses in religious education and Christian values.
To continue developing a well-balanced curriculum in the arts, sciences, humanities and career-oriented courses.
To guide the student in the development of self-worth by helping the individual attain spiritual, intellectual, emotional, and physical growth.
To endow the student with Catholic school principles, thus enabling the individual to offer strong support and voluntary services to the community.
To provide the student with a set of values which will help the individual to develop attitudes and make decisions reflecting our Catholic Christian ideals.
To teach the student how to think critically and innovatively.
To encourage the development of the student’s individual talents.
To heighten student awareness of their responsibility to God.
To enable the student to reach a level of maturity which affords the opportunity to function as a member of a peer group, a Christian community and a democratic society.
To develop leadership qualities in each student.
To engender the student’s respect for our democratic society and a willingness to participate in its ongoing development.