Oceanside Collegiate Academy

Hello Oceanside Community, 

Let me start out by saying how excited I am to get to know the Oceanside family, and it is a family. I have seen that from the outside and now, due to unexpected circumstances, I will be living it from the inside.

Change is hard, maybe the most difficult of challenges we face in life. So many great people in history have been quoted about change because, beside being hard to work through, change is inevitable. Late President Jimmy Carter said "Tremendous progress can be made if we persevere through difficult challenges."

We face a difficult challenge now and in the days ahead. How we respond will shape how we feel about ourselves, how we grow and learn, and how we achieve success through the coming months. 

My focus at OCA is to ensure our students have the best atmosphere to thrive in a small, safe, family-centered, environment. The goal is to make sure our students have a stable environment to learn and grow. Educating our students is my top priority.

Walt Disney once said "Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.”, and I believe that. It is a precious resource that we all must nurture to the fullest extent of our abilities. Our efforts now will produce tremendous results well into the future, but to achieve those results, we must embrace the here and now, and embrace these children in our hearts. We must ensure that, no matter the circumstance, our students are our focus each and every day.

October is starting with Homecoming, a week of fun and camaraderie, leading to the football game on Friday and concluding with the dance on Saturday night. I am personally looking forward to the annual "Shark or Treat" event on October 24 when all the Landsharks come together as a community.

Oceanside has an amazing staff of teachers, coaches and supporting staff and I have already seen how much they care about and love our students. OCA is truly blessed and I am looking forward to getting to know each and every member of the Landshark family in the coming days and weeks.

Go Landsharks!

Mike Lorenz

Interim Principal

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