KIDS@

Yesterday I was at a gathering of the principals and pastors in our deanery to celebrate and honor those who are retiring or moving on to new jobs at the end of this academic year. Of course one of the topics was the closing of our school. All expressed their sorrow and concern at the closing and inquired where the students were attending school next year. Most (at least 50%) were already registered with St. Raphael and various smaller numbers with our neighboring parishes. It is difficult to figure out how many are as of yet unregistered in any school. Some may be going through a difficult discernment process and delaying a decision, others just procrastinate registering anywhere else just like they did here.
One of the things I mentioned yesterday and have been thinking about for a while is a kids@ section for the bulletin and on the blog and web site. Kids@__________ would enable us to keep informed of the various activities and keep in contact with the students in their new schools. It would also enable us to include our students who are going to schools other than just parochial schools. My guess is that most information would be included on the blog & web site with a monthly high-light section included in the bulletin.

The calendar at the bottom of the blog could also include events at various schools and allow us to remain informed about various activities. Part of the work I will have cut out for me is finding a contact person for each school and keeping in e-mail contact with them. I will naturally ask some of the members of our Transition Team to serve as a contact for the different schools their children might be attending. One of the real challenges will be keeping in contact with the schools that may only have one child attending them. I hope no one gets accidently lost in the shuffle.