Hinsdale High School Teachers Association

Often we feel our administration is none too quick to recognize the hard work HHSTA members do day in and day out in support of our students. That’s why it is important to give them credit when they do so. Kudos to our principal for his letter to the editor in support of American Education Week published this week in the Hinsdale Doings:

The faculty and staff of Hinsdale Central High School deserve the enthusiastic appreciation and support of the Hinsdale area communities. This is American Education Week, an opportunity to celebrate the dignity of the profession and the important role of schools in our communities. I have had the opportunity in my career to serve students and families in six highly-performing high schools in the western suburbs of Chicago, and I testify to the special talents and extraordinary commitment of our current Hinsdale Central faculty and staff in their quest to enrich the lives of students by helping them take steps to fulfill their dreams.

I encourage the students and parents in the community to communicate their appreciation of the efforts of the faculty and staff. Your support is highly valued. For the adults at 55th and Grant, serving students is more than a job. Each week I hear from students and parents about individual faculty and staff who make very special, above and beyond, efforts on behalf of students. Every day our faculty and staff make hundreds of complex decisions to anticipate or respond to the needs of the hundreds of unique individual students.

In our current era, the typical measures of a fine high school are comparatively high standardized test scores, athletic championships, stellar achievements in the arts, and college matriculation. But parents know that they want more from the high school experience of their students. They want the school to cultivate character and attend to the social and emotional development of their sons and daughters. The fine faculty and staff of Hinsdale Central High School strive every day to see the whole person in order to create an outstanding experience for every student, and we achieve this to a remarkable degree.

It is an honor to work with such a fine faculty and staff.

Kevin Pobst, principal