Welcome

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Dear Parents,

Welcome to our Ville de Marie Academy family for the 2023 – 2024 school year. Our school philosophy has always maintained that parents are the primary educators of the children, especially in the area of faith and morals. Most parents understand this role and embrace it as a calling from God. Ville de Marie is an extension of the faith and morals taught in the home. Ville de Marie Academy was formed to assist the parents in obtaining the final end for which they were created, to know, love, serve and glorify God in this life and the next.

We take our mission to pursue excellence in education very seriously, providing all our students with the best spiritual, intellectual, moral, social, and physical formation possible. Its rigorous classical Catholic liberal arts curriculum is designed to prepare students to become lifelong learners with a solid foundation in every major academic discipline and an ardent desire to pursue truth, goodness, and beauty throughout their lives.

This handbook explains the educational philosophy that drives this commitment and the policies and procedures necessary to accomplish its academic and formative aims. It is therefore important that all parents read this handbook. High school students also are expected to read it, and parents are expected to review its policies and procedures with their children in grades K-12. To signify the willingness to support and adhere to the policies and procedures contained in this handbook, all parents and high school students are required to sign the Parent/Student Handbook Agreement Form that is a separate attachment in this same email with the handbook. and return it to the school office by the
school’s required deadline.

Ville de Marie Academy exists to support you, the parents, as the primary educators of your children. We therefore take seriously our responsibility to adhere closely to the directives of the Roman Catholic Church regarding authentic Catholic education, especially with respect to the obligation to provide an education that supports and nurtures each student’s vocation to become a saint. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in his visit to America taught us that, “Once their passion for the fullness and unity of truth has been awakened, young people will surely relish the discovery that the question of what they can know opens up the vast adventure of what they ought to do.” At Ville de Marie Academy, students are provided a learning environment in which this supernatural vision is promoted in every aspect of its curriculum.

Again, welcome to Ville de Marie Academy. Please join us in commending this coming school year to Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart, that she may inspire and perfect all we do for the greater glory of God. If there is anything, we can do for you, please do not hesitate to ask.

To Jesus through Mary,

Daniel V. Ethridge