MCS closing after this school year

officeguy

Well-Known Member
Very sad and a huge loss for the kids currently attending and for the community. ADW is making a mistake...

http://www.thebaynet.com/articles/0115/helen-catholic-school-to-close-parents-consider-options.html

What do you think they should do ?



It seems to me that most of the expense of running an elementary school are in the upper grades, 5-8. I wonder whether it would be financially viable to maintain a K-4 school in the area with a collaborative agreement with ANS up in LaPlata for the higher grades.
 

sm8

Active Member
It seems this gets announced every year but at the last minute they find funding for another year.
 

TPD

the poor dad
I'd love to read it, but baynet is blocked here due to the many virus' they've had over the years. Anybody care to cut and paste?

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Helen, MD — Mother Catherine Spalding School will open its doors July 1, 2015 for the 2015/2016 school year with a new name, likely to be Mother Catherine Spalding Academy. Through consultation with the Archdiocese of Washington and with new direction, the community is establishing a nonprofit independent school under their own management, and will have authority over all financial and operational responsibilities. The new independent school will operate in the building that has been home to the Archdiocesan Catholic school for fifty years.

According to a Jan. 16 letter from Cardinal Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, the
Archdiocese will not be financially or operationally involved in the new school, although the letter noted that the Cardinal has directed the Catholic Schools Office and other archdiocesan offices to begin work on the terms of the lease of the existing building to "show the Archdiocese's support for such a new, independent school proposed to be founded and operated by parents."
 

racingal

Member
I heard that they are trying to open back up in the fall as an independent catholic school, operate kind of like Ryken does.
 
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