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Protected: All Saints Day Celebration

Posted on Oct 5, 2013 | Comments Off on Protected: All Saints Day Celebration

Our annual All Saints Day celebration will be here before we know it.  We are incredibly grateful for the Gahan family’s gracious offer to host this year’s All Saints’ Day Carnival at their home in Lockhart. This year, November 1st falls on a Friday (a 1st Friday and also a Holy day of obligation). On this morning, our students and teachers/parents are encouraged to attend classes dressed in costume to commemorate their saint of choice. Classes will be dismissed at our usual time around 11:30.  Our Lady’s Maronite will offer Divine Liturgy at noon for families...

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Integrating Home & School

Posted on Apr 9, 2013 | Comments Off on Integrating Home & School

An recent article from the Wall Street Journal highlights the crisis: In the past, to become a good gatherer or hunter, cook or caregiver, you would actually practice gathering, hunting, cooking and taking care of children all through middle childhood and early adolescence—tuning up just the prefrontal wiring you’d need as an adult. But you’d do all that under expert adult supervision and in the protected world of childhood, where the impact of your inevitable failures would be blunted. When the motivational juice of puberty arrived, you’d be ready to go after the real...

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