Documentaries have been made trying to understand it. As well as books and news stories on major networks. People come from around the world to understand it. What’s the ‘it’? We are often asked ‘why do guys from Benedict’s succeed high rates beyond their high school years?’ There’s no one answer. It happens in the classrooms, on the athletic fields, swimming pool, and in the confrontation of every-day-challenges that stand in the way. Yesterday was one of those challenges. Twenty-eight inches of snow fell in Newark and brought the city to a standstill. At. St. Benedict’s, recovery from snow storms falls to small crew of men in our facilities department and students in the student-led 520 Corp. Thanks to their hard work Sunday, we were set to have school on Monday - "Benedict’s Hates a Quitter."
Below are scenes from before and after crews burrowed through two-plus feet of snow at The Hive: