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kimdyuma
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Posted: Mon Apr 14th, 2008 09:41 pm |
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We need some prayers that we recieve our tutuion assistance again this year for the kids' tution. There are rumours that due to the economy that the tutiion assistance will be drastically cut this year and since both our kids are at the high school we are looking at 14 K/year which we just don't have. They are doing so well in this school, we are looking at a second mortgage option if necessary but needless to say that route makes me nervous too.
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Posted: Mon Apr 14th, 2008 10:00 pm |
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| Is that assistance from the school or the diocese? I will pray for financial aid for your children and the other students in the school. I know what it is to have a successful thing going with private school and yet knowing the money required is way more than what we have. It's a tough situation because the education of your children is at stake.
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kimdyuma
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Posted: Mon Apr 14th, 2008 10:11 pm |
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Partially school and partially diocese. The Catholic community worked hard to get this school here, it opened in 2000. It services tow Catholic K-8 schools and is the only one within a four hour drive. I am more than a little frustrated by some of my fellow parents (non Catholic)- a brand new state of the art high school opened last fall and many of them are thinking about putting their kids in it because as they say "they only came to the Catholic High School because it was the only private school around and they have had to put up with the Religious aspect" One parent - a protestant has told her kids "that they should be aware that the Catholic Theology teachings are wrong so they should just participate but they need to discuss the errors in Theology with her" I want to say "well take your kids else where but since she is paying full tuition I selfishly want her to stay
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Steven Barrett
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Posted: Mon Apr 14th, 2008 11:21 pm |
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Kim I like your attitude. By all means, not matter how snooty our protestant and other non-Catholic friends might be towards our faith and school system, they're helping us keep it afloat for one.
Secondly, and this requires great hope and faith on our part: They might learn enough to realize we don't worship the Great Whore of Babylon in the Synagogue of Satan. If they want that they'll have to visit Las Vegas or parts of California or whacked-out hilltowns in western Massachustts.
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kimdyuma
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Posted: Mon Apr 14th, 2008 11:29 pm |
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Well we weren't Catholic either when the kids started ( though I was glad that they HAD to attend Theology because I was already praying that attitudes in our home would change towards the Catholic Church) I think that the school is taking "pat on the back" credit for our conversion . And in fact while CHN and my neighbour had more to do with it( and the chaos in the Anglican world) the school actually hadmore to do with dispelling my husband"s thoughts of Dicken's type dungeon schools with Nuns beating on the kids 
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EMarshallBuckles
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Posted: Tue Apr 15th, 2008 03:11 pm |
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Well, if it's any consolation, I have known of protestant Christian schools having the same problems and Christian colleges as well. People of no faith or little faith send their children to them because they are better behaved and better academically than the secular public schools, however, they don't really appreciate the religious instruction. However, at least they are getting exposed to Christianity and hopefully it will eventually take root in their lives.
One web site you might want to check out is http://www.fastweb.com (assuming I got that web address correctly). It is primarly for college students but you may find some leads for high school tuition possibilities. I'll check around to see if I find anything specifically for high school students and let you know if I do. Meanwhile, hang in there! I am glad that you are taking your children to Catholic schooling!
Oh, by the way, if you are at all interested in the possibility of home schooling, you should check out Seton Home School. They are a lot cheaper than on campus schooling and yet completion of their curriculum results in a regionally accredited diploma. They are overseen by the Catholic Diocese of Arlington, VA.
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kimdyuma
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Posted: Tue Apr 15th, 2008 03:42 pm |
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I will check the fastweb site. Home schooling is not an option for us- our son has autism and he has a tendaency to withdraw from people, after the summer break it is hard to get him pack out into the public. We spend our breaks finding ways to force him out into society(which means anyone outside of the nuclear family)
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Steven Barrett
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Posted: Tue Apr 15th, 2008 04:10 pm |
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Catholic schools, with all the stereotypes of the ruler-wielding wide-bodied nun in full habit ("Blues Brothers") who always seemed to glide across the floor, make for good yuks. But as Marshall pointed out strict discipline and relatively begnin levels of corporal punishment (knuckle rapping, etc.) weren't monopolized by Catholic schools. Nor, in fairness to many good Protestant-run private schools, were they, too, running in "competition" [only] with Catholics insofar as keeping the kids in line with corporal punishment. Oh no, -- public schools in some districts across the country got their licks in as recent as the late sixties and maybe into the early seventies.
Granted, when you see what goes on in some of those schools, at least a little ear-pulling wouldn't hurt, or even the public humiliation of a pointed teasing when h.s. kids are caught necking during lunch in a cafeterial lunch period. Don't hold your breath because when the teachers collecting $34 K for starters won't even get up to shoo the lovers along for fear of attracting the attention of the kids' parents' attorney, you know the battle's a goner.
So we give the kids meaningless forms of "punishments" that amount to nothing, or do little to help the kid through creative forms of discipline.
Giving a kid a shovel and a day in the barn at a Voke school for an inhouse suspension is creative. Booting him into study hall or home for a day won't accomplish a thing. Gotta be something about this in Proverbs, right? Being a "cradle Catholic," I wouldn't be as sufficiently informed as my former Protestant brothers and sisters.Last edited on Tue Apr 15th, 2008 04:11 pm by Steven Barrett
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Pani Rose
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Posted: Thu May 1st, 2008 09:46 pm |
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St Paul I especially recommend to you all the members of this forum and their families that are suffering in any way, especially their finances or employment, that you would gracioulsy intercede with the Lord our God that he would meet all of their needs according to God's riches in Glory. Amen
O St. Paul, great Apostle of the Gentiles, intercede for us to God. You are God's special vessel of election. Through your intercession we hope to receive from Him this special grace for tution to be met, good measure, pressed down, and overflowing.
O God, you have instructed many nations through the preaching of the Blessed Apostle Paul. Let the power of his intercession with You help us who venerate his memory this day. Amen.
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kimdyuma
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Posted: Tue May 6th, 2008 03:00 am |
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| Sheesh- if it isn't one thing it is another- NOW the kids have come ome talking about a rumour floating through the school that BOD who are visiting the school tomorrow will opt to turn our school into a private prep school NOT a parochial School. That would mean that there would be NO Catholic high school for roughly 200 miles. They are upset about it becuase they like being in a Parochail school, they LIKE being able to have God in their world at school openly and they don't want to lose their Catholic classmates and be left with just the non Catholic Preppie types- ie the richer kids in town. Even if it changed to a private non Parochial school with just one and two years respectively left they wouldn't tranfer to the larger public school well- their school has 400 kids, the High schools in town have 3 to 4 k. I would hope that the Dioscese would not give up on us but I know that the Dioscese of Tucson is one that has been hit with high abuse settlement costs
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Ali
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Posted: Wed May 7th, 2008 12:17 pm |
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kimdyuma wrote: Sheesh- if it isn't one thing it is another-
Ugh! How frustrating. Schooling (other than home) choices have been hard for me to begin with. I don't think I could handle all the worry and back and forth rumor mill about next year.
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kimdyuma
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Posted: Thu Jun 12th, 2008 02:10 am |
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Wow talk about answered prayers- I am so happy We just recieved our tutition assistance letter from the school for one child- the B student so I figure the A student will will also get one- they are knocking off $2,000 for the one and last year they gave us the same amount per child so along with a parish discount, multi child discount and thanks to living in Arizona we recieved tax credits from some friends. ( in Arizona if you pay taxes you can designate a certain amount to go to a child's tutition in a religious school, but you can't pay it towards your own child- We always designate our allowed amount towards a child who needs it) our tutiion will be about 4K per child which is about 1/2 of the annual tutition. We usually hear about a month earlier so I was getting worried.
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Ali
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Posted: Thu Jun 12th, 2008 10:24 am |
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kimdyuma wrote: Wow talk about answered prayers- I am so happy
Yay!!!
Now, go enjoy your summer
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