La Salle Academy’s January Recap

Do you realize how easy it is for a video game player, like almost any one of our students, to create his own identity? Selecting an avatar, endowing it with characteristics, and interacting in an imaginary world is a behavior familiar to many La Salle students who spend hours in a virtual reality. Fortunately, at La Salle they also have a verifiable identity, hone their skills, live their values, and experience the fraternal interchange that occurs in our classrooms and on our teams and in our clubs.  The potential lack of coherence between one’s online self and that individual’s offline self poses a concern. My recent participation in a webinar about the wellbeing of adolescents in our society caused me to reflect on the importance of our school’s role in guiding a young man’s evolution of self-discovery in an empirical world we all share.

See below for references to recent activities at La Salle that touched on academic pursuits, theological reflection, and physical fitness…all authentic experiences involving living people!