St. Mary's School

We stand for God and for His glory,
The Lord supreme and God of all,
Against His foes, we raise His standard,
Around the cross, we hear His call,
Strengthen our faith, redemer,
Guide us, when danger is nigh,
To Thee, we pledge our lives and service,
For God we live, for God we die,
To Thee, we pledge our lives and service,
For God we live, for God we die!!!!

I am ashamed to say I had a small problem with writing the first verse or our school song. The problem being, I had forgotten what came after the sixth line.

It has been about two years, since I finished high school in Kenya, at the top of my class. Within that time, I have finished high school a second time, had a handful of interviews on national TV, two interviews on a regional radio station, been a small TV star and enrolled in the university I wanted to study in since I was a child.
Within the same amount of time, my old school, the once great St. Mary's, has lost more teachers than I realise, lost more students than I can count and lost more credibility than I'd like to expound on.

During the course of my last 2 years in the institution I love, many changes (most of which were for the worse) were being made and even then many teachers and students left. Now all that's left are a handful of teachers and a old compound, with very many memories. I'd hate to think of what older Alumni see in what now holds the name of our school. It's painful to watch, read and hear, how the school has changed. The facilities are covered in filth and need serious maintenance, the quality of education is going down and even the Saints Spirit, that lurks about the halls and compound, that should keep us together is no more. All that's left of the Spirit is in the Alumni, who quietly, each day, pass on a small portion of the Spirit to other people in their day to day lives.

It is time the Alumni came back to their old school and restored it to its former glory. Steps have been made, associations and groups formed, long conversations and meetings, petitions, arguments, the list is almost endless. But aside from the removal of part of an ineffective administration, nothing has been achieved and the school is in a very bad state. In any case, the poor administration was replaced with an equally poor, of not worse admin, so I'd say it was a step back. "Better the demon you know, then the angel you don't."
I feel that this is because the wrong steps were made. Rather than trying to remove the administration that we feel is wrong, we can try to change it. It is only wrong because it has no sense of the Saints Spirit. We, who have the Spirit should come together and, with our actions in restoring the school (at least in restoring the physical facilities that we have the power to do), we can pass on the Spirit to those who don't have it. We already do it every day to our business partners and contacts. Why not bring our torches back and recindle the fire that should mould our children to be Saints?
The Saints will march in and restore the great institution and oh, Lord, I really do want to be among the number, when the Saints go marching in.
It can be done. It should be done. And if we chose to take the time and the effort, it SHALL be done.

We all know this line: "Once a Saint, always a Saint!". I feel that the same applies to the institution that makes Saints.
"Once the Institution, always the Institution!"