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Playing the Game
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Posted: Sat Jul 4th, 2009 01:11 am |
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| No, you have a choice is all I am saying. If you don't like the choices, move on.
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Posted: Fri Jul 3rd, 2009 10:04 pm |
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Teachers leaving because of "the economy"? Parents? They've left for different reasons, but it's not all the economy. How many families have you spoken to who left because of the economy? The administration? Have you ever seen such an uproar at the school before this?
There are famlies who have moved to a different home just to get into another district and leave Holy Cross. That's NOT economy. They're putting out more money to move and get away. Families have left the parish because of their disatisfaction too.
And yes, it is a choice to send your child to a private school. HCParent5Years (and others), made a choice based on the adminstration. PTG, are you saying that everyone who sends their kids to a private school is a snob?
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Posted: Fri Jul 3rd, 2009 09:52 pm |
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| Sometimes parents need a high colonic to clear their minds and realize that private education is a choice, not a right.
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Posted: Fri Jul 3rd, 2009 08:22 pm |
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| Of course. It's the economy.....
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Posted: Fri Jul 3rd, 2009 05:49 pm |
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| I'm sure the crappy economy coupled with the tuition cost has something to do with it.
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Posted: Fri Jul 3rd, 2009 12:51 pm |
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| If you resign and go away than you do what Fred posted. Just accept things without question. Guess you don't want things to improve? Doesn't matter that a greater than average number of teachers left and more would leave if they had the opportunity. Doesn't matter that a greater than average number of parents have left. Guess things are "ok".
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Posted: Thu Jul 2nd, 2009 01:33 am |
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| So resign and go away.
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Posted: Wed Jul 1st, 2009 10:44 pm |
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Playing the Game wrote: Thank God my church takes their time and doesn't change with polls and whims.
Thank God I can look at something and see the flaws in it, and still appreciate it for what it is.
The major problem, and this carries over to EVERY problem, is their insistance that they are always right about everything. Don't question, don't raise issues...everything is under control, we know more then you do about everything, your opinion means nothing, your suspicions are all wrong.
They are an organization ran by men. Good men, bad men, fair men, unfair men, but still men, and they can be wrong.
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Posted: Wed Jul 1st, 2009 07:21 pm |
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Playing the Game wrote: Thank God my church takes their time and doesn't change with polls and whims.
Ah geeeze PTG, I thought you'd have said your church doesn't change with the "bread and wine". 
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Posted: Wed Jul 1st, 2009 04:00 pm |
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| Thank God my church takes their time and doesn't change with polls and whims.
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Posted: Wed Jul 1st, 2009 03:40 pm |
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It shows that the Church doesn't like to admit they make mistakes, and are slow to come around.
Any business that had the dissatisfacation levels the school have would have made changes to SOMETHING much sooner then that.
Last edited on Wed Jul 1st, 2009 03:41 pm by Fred
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Posted: Wed Jul 1st, 2009 12:25 pm |
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And this proves what?
Fred wrote:
The soap opera continues.
Hey, look....the Church eventually realizes and admits their mistakes, but it does take them a while.... It only took them 400 years to apologize to Galileo. Didn't do him much good, though.
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Posted: Wed Jul 1st, 2009 03:04 am |
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| Sad but undeniably true
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Posted: Wed Jul 1st, 2009 02:30 am |
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The soap opera continues.
Hey, look....the Church eventually realizes and admits their mistakes, but it does take them a while.... It only took them 400 years to apologize to Galileo. Didn't do him much good, though.
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Posted: Wed Jul 1st, 2009 02:24 am |
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| PTG, must you always have the last word? Do you have a life? You are posting too and your kids don't even go to school there.
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Posted: Wed Jul 1st, 2009 01:42 am |
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| Same old same old...................................get a life and make a decision.
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Posted: Tue Jun 30th, 2009 11:34 pm |
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| I've heard a lot of families are leaving this year because of the admin. Not sure of the numbers, but it would be interesting to find out at the beginning of next school year. Yes, the same crap is going on and they just got tired of it. Last edited on Tue Jun 30th, 2009 11:35 pm by unhappyparent
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Posted: Fri Jun 26th, 2009 02:17 pm |
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Thanks old friend! Glad to see you're still at it! For the record, the door didn't have a chance, I was running!!
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Posted: Fri Jun 26th, 2009 12:06 pm |
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| Glad it worked out so well for you, don't let the dorr hit you in the butt on the way out.
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Posted: Fri Jun 26th, 2009 03:00 am |
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For the record, there is life after Holy Cross and it's wonderful! The public school teachers and administrators openly welcome parents who volunteer, even more so they adore them! The school uses up to date testing, unlike the outdated testing used to track at Holy Cross. Intelligent children are challenged academically, as the school knows these children's success will bring them better funding!
The teachers truly appreciate my well behaved, religious children (and I take credit for that, Holy Cross did not raise them). All students are treated equally and fairly, not just the ones who's parents don't disagree with the principal. Fund raising is minimal and any effort applauded. Specials are not changed randomly year to year, and they are all solid options. Teachers are respected, and if they aren't they can take action, amazingly the same goes for parents ( I know that sounds strange to HC parents it was strange for me at first too!).
Then there are the little things. You can go to any class celebration. You don't need to get fingerprinted to go on a field trip with your child. Your child won't get detention if the dentist can finally get them in at 8:30a.m. on a Tuesday. If you want to sign your kids out with no notice five min. before the end of the school day, so be it, they're your children after all! (shocking I know!) Oh and the secretary won't give you attitude for doing so! Lunch is a dollar and you don't have to plan a month in advance to buy it (get this it's even nutritionally sound and filling to boot!). If your kid wants a rolling backpack and notebooks with cartoon characters, they are free to express themselves in such a manner.
Best of all not only do all the students have to play by the rules, but so do the teachers, secretaries, principals, assistant principals, and even ass. supers and superintendents. They don't fly by the seat of their pants making up rules and picking and choosing who they are accountable to. Funny, it's like I left the twilight zone and entered back into reality. I can't tell you how refreshing it has been! While I miss the parents I have become friends with over the years and watching their children grow with mine, and the teachers my children and I have come to know and love, the sense of community left when the new principal came. The teachers weren't the same, stressed Im sure by their own dealings with the principal, The sense of community was gone. Friendships I had with many parents was shattered by their lack of action despite their many complaints about the principal.
I am not one to go with the flow sacrificing my children's education and my own morals, and I was shocked and disheartened when others were so willing to. There is life beyond Holy Cross, it is not the only option, you can raise good, Catholic, well educated children while they attend public school.The ultimate reward for me was when at the end of this school year (we left HC mid-year((yes J it's me your favorite Dr's daughter)I gave the children the option to return to Holy cross if they wanted to, and they both answered with a resounding "NO!".
I am confident next year will be even better, as the children won't have the burden of transitioning to a new school mid-year. I never, ever thought in a million years I would even consider sending my children to public school. The principal made that decision for me and for that I thank her! We couldn't be happier!!
For the record, I believe it is very wrong to take away someones freedom of speech. I hope this post does not succumb to the same fate as my last.
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