CURRENT INTERNET FACTS "87% of U.S. teens ages 12 to 17 currently use the Internet,
representing about 21 million youth. Of those, approximately 11 million teens go
online on a daily basis." (Pew Internet and American Life, "Teens and
Technology," July 27, 2005.)
"The size of the wired teen population surges at the seventh grade mark.
While about 60% of sixth graders use the Internet, by seventh grade the number
jumps to 82%." (Pew Internet and American Life, "Teens and Technology," July 27,
2005.)
47% of children have received e-mails with links to pornographic websites.
(Symantec market research report, June 9, 2003)
Over half (51%) of parents either do not have, or do not know if they
have, software on their computers to monitor where their teenagers go online and
with whom they interact. (Cox Communications and The National Center for Missing
and Exploited Children, “Parents’ Internet Monitoring Study,” February 2005).
57% or more of parents were unable to correctly decipher the meanings of
several common instant messaging abbreviations. (Cox Communications and The
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, “Parents’ Internet
Monitoring Study,” February 2005).
In late 2004, teachers at Montevideo Middle School in Virginia, surveyed
178 sixth grade students at their school. The resulting data was alarming: 1 in
4 had become friends with a stranger online and 1 in 10 had attempted to meet an
online friend face to face. (Montevideo Middle School, “Sixth Grade Computer
Survey,” December 9, 2004)
Some 57% of parents worry that strangers will contact their children
online. These worries are well grounded. Close to60% of teens have received an
instant message or email from a stranger and 50% report emailing or instant
messaging with someone they have not met before. Despite this, teens themselves
are not particularly worried about strangers online; 52% of online teens say
they do not worry at all about being contacted online and only 23% express any
notable level of concern. (Pew Internet & American Life, “Teenage Life Online,”
June 20, 2001)
30% of teenage girls polled by the Girl Scout Research Institute said they
had been sexually harassed in a chatroom. Only 7 %, however, told their mothers
or fathers about the harassment, as they were worried that their parents would
ban them from going online. (Girl Scout Research Institute 2002)
86 % of the girls polled said they could chat online without their
parents’ knowledge, 57% could read their parents email, and 54% could conduct a
cyber relationship. (Girl Scout Research Institute 2002)
81% of parents and 79% of teens state that teenagers aren’t careful enough
when giving out information about themselves online. 65% of parents and 64% of
teens say that teenagers do things online that they wouldn’t want their parents
to know about. (Pew Internet and American Life, “Protecting Teens Online,” March
17, 2005.)
27% of teens said that they have known a friend to actually meet someone
whom they only knew online (Teen Research Unlimited, “Topline Findings from
Omnibuss Research,” October 2005.)
Online teens admit that they frequently communicate with people they have
never met: 54% have Instant Messaged a stranger, 50% have emailed a stranger,
and 45% have participated in a chat room discussion with a stranger (Teen
Research Unlimited, “Topline Findings from Omnibuss Research,” October 2005.)
28% of teens said they use code words on a daily basis to hide their
online conversations from their parents – example: “PIR” means “parent in room”
(Teen Research Unlimited, “Topline Findings from Omnibuss Research,” October
2005.)
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MISSION STATEMENT
Build Faith . . .
St. Michael Academy strives to pass on and deepen faith in our
children in
a Christ-centered educational environment.
Build Hearts . . .
St. Michael Academy nurtures love and mutual respect
among students, teachers, parents, and all who support our school
family, in order to spread the message of Jesus Christ in our homes,
our community, and our world.
Build Minds . . .
St. Michael Academy seeks to cultivate the intellectual development
of
the minds of our students in accordance with Catholic values and to
create motivated, lifelong learners.
Build Bodies . . .
St. Michael Academy works to promote healthy lifestyle choices and
fitness
through health and physical education and to provide opportunities
for
physical development through curricular and extra-curricular
physical activities.
GOALS
To
develop within the school a religious education program based on
theology, scripture and liturgical experience that will help us
guide each child in the growth and development of a Christian
way of life.
To
facilitate the intellectual, physical, emotional and social
development of each child according to individual potentialities
and the need for a positive self image.
To
guide each child to emerge as a self-disciplined, self-reliant,
socially conscious witness of Jesus.
To
provide appropriate aspects of divergent instructional
strategies such as flexible grouping, departmentalized classes
and other opportunities for creativity, inquiry and discovery in
learning.
To
promote an awareness and appreciation of the important role each
individual plays as a member of the global community.
PHILOSOPHY OF ST. MICHAEL ACADEMY
We
believe that each child, created by God, is both alike and unique
from every other human being. This uniqueness affects each child's
acceptance and responsibility toward the school community, and it
especially influences each one's learning styles.
In the
light of similarities and differences among students, we strive to
meet the academic needs, to satisfy the interests, and to develop
the abilities of each child.
Further
and foremost, our school teaches what it means to be a Catholic, to
model one's life on Jesus Christ with the duties and
responsibilities involved in living out His message, and with the
joy and peace that flows from such fidelity.
We
believe that the distinctive purpose of St. Michael Academy is to
create a Christian Educational Community where human culture and
knowledge, enlightened and enlivened by faith, is shared among
teachers, students, families and others who are in our global
community
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