Dear St. Brendan Families, Community, Alumni, and Supporters,

As you have heard, our beloved school is set to close at the end of this academic year. This news is a shock to us all and blindsided teachers and staff. As a community, we have chosen to enroll our students in St. Brendan to ensure they receive a solid education in a nurturing environment. While the pandemic has been hard on everyone, the Archdiocese could have done a better job engaging the staff and families in this process. If this is truly a financial issue, it did not happen overnight.

The email says that more extensive studies were conducted, and they came to this decision not in collaboration with the people who will be impacted, which is wrong. As parents, we make sacrifices for our children to be here, and it would have been a show of transparency and common decency to involve parents and staff in the process. If we had been made aware, we could have tapped into our networks, worked to raise additional funds, or found ways to merge our school with Immaculate Conception. 

At this point, we would like to join together as a collective to elevate our concerns to the Archdiocese and to have a town hall hosted at our school for parents to hear from the superintendent and whoever made these decisions to gain answers to our questions. It is only right to demand that our voices be heard and that the Archdiocese give us context and data to justify its decision. 

Thank you to the parents, friends, and supporters who supported our rally on Friday, February 24th. View News12 Coverage Here. We will continue to push forward together!

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