The Cathedral High School Board of Trustees would like to send a message to our Cathedral Community.
We were surprised and disappointed by the letter from the Diocese on Thursday (November 6). Like you, we believed this issue to be settled and, based on that, have put a tremendous amount of energy into raising the Endowment for Tuition Assistance and putting plans in place to improve the school so that it was an even better educational program when we returned to Surrey Road. The administration and staff have been incredible in moving the school forward in its temporary quarters and have been innovative in reaching out for new technology and programming.
We understand the responsbility the Bishop feels to make the best decision possible on the school and are confident that we will once again prevail in this latest process. There is a natural time and place for the anger and disappointment regarding this latest hurdle placed in front of us. We do believe, however, that we need to turn that anger and disappointment into positive action. The process we will be going through in the next few weeks is promised to be transparent and fair. We expect that the meeting minutes will be published on a pubiic website so that many can be heard. We need the Cathedral Community to be the loudest, most informed and respectful group heard for the next few weeks. We need everyone that truly cares to join us in letting the Diocese know that Cathedral matters … to us, to Springfield and to the overall Catholic community.
Thank you for your support.
The Cathedral High School Board of Trustees
