Members Present
	Joe Zins	Lynne Morris	Ann McMackin
	Lois Neltner	Donna Patterson	Mark Merz
	Maria Meyer	Joan Haber
Ex Officio Members Present
	Fr. Jack	Bill Cavanaugh	Jodie Bender
Members Absent
	Bill Benvie	Michael Vilaboy	Anita Bidleman	Bill Rice
Ex Officio Members Absent
	Bill Lonneman	Lindsey Burns	Lisa Renken

Opening Prayer

Father Jack led the members of the Education Commission in prayer with everyone saying the Our Father keeping in mind that Bill Rice's mother was in the hospital with emergency surgery.

 

Approval of Minutes

The minutes were approved with minor changes. Lynne moved to accept and Donna seconded the motion to approve the minutes of May 16, 2002

 

Welcome

Joe welcomed the new members of the Education Commission: Maria Meyer, Mark Merz and Joan Haber.

 

Reports

Pastoral Report - Father Jack

Father is in the process of selecting a group of about six to eight people from St. Vivian parish to work on a five to ten-year plan for the Parish, and School. Father, Joe and Bill Lonneman have met with members of other churches in the community to talk about their ideas for the future, as well as to coordinate efforts across parishes.

Father and the Temporal Affairs Committee talked to the Development Director from St. Margaret of York to learn more about the duties of a development director in their parish.

 

Temporal Affairs - Michael Vilaboy

No Report

 

Pastoral Associate - Bill Lonneman

Bill was unable to attend the meeting but reported that a flyer will be in Sunday's bulletin with announcements.

 

Director of Youth Ministry /Religious Education - Jodie Bender

PSR Handbook

Jodie passed out copies of the first PSR handbook. The members of the commission approved the handbook and a note to this effect will be printed in the handbook. The handbook will be mailed out to the PSR families with registration forms.

 

Confirmation

The Confirmation packets have been sent out to the students and the families in the parish.

 

First Communion and Reconciliation

Letters were sent home or mailed to the PSR students who have completed the first grade to explain First Communion and Reconciliation schedule for next year. First Communion for 2003 will be the weekend after Easter, which is spring break. Father has told Jodie if anyone cannot make that date they may schedule another time.

 

Graduation Liturgy

Jodie said the graduation Liturgy went very well and Mr. Cavanaugh agreed. Jodie and Lisa Renken started planning early and added new awards.

Medals were awarded to the eighth grade Eucharistic Ministers. Eight eighth graders were given a plaque to acknowledged their dedication for serving masses and funerals.

Maria suggested that the students who play or sing at the school masses with Mrs. Khamis be acknowledged at graduation next year. Jodie and Bill will consider her suggestion.

 

School Liturgies

Jodie has received good feedback about the school liturgies this year.

School masses will be held on Friday next school year except when there is a holy day in the week. Each grade will attend mass or a prayer service three times a month. This may also be different because of holy days.

Father Jack would like the children to attend Stations of Cross twice and Reconciliation during Lent.

 

Youth Ministry

The youth group mission trip is June 23, 2002. The nail sale at St. Vivian raised one thousand dollars. There was also a nail sale at St. Bart's and another at Little Flower parish June 14 and 15. Jodie is hopeful that the money raised will pay for the transportation for the mission this summer.

 

Bible School

Vacation Bible School is the week of July 15, 2002. We are still in need of two teachers. Marie and Jodie mentioned that the older children need to call and arrange to help in order to get service hours, rather than just showing up.

 

School Report - Bill Cavanaugh

Maria thanked Mr. Cavanaugh for a good year, as did the rest of the Education Commission members.

 

School Schedule

Mr. Cavanaugh passed out next year's school schedule.

Monday August 19 will be a mandatory meeting for parents. Mr. Cavanaugh has asked the PTA to help. Other groups such as the Athletic Boosters may be able to talk to the parents. Parents will also meet the teachers.

 

Hand book/ Dress code

Mr. Cavanaugh passed out a copy of the dress code policy to the members, which was sent home the last week of school.

Mr. Cavanaugh also passed around the Lands End catalogue from which families may order the uniform. Lands End is comparable in price to Casson's

It was suggested that backless shoes be added to the list of shoes that are not to be worn to school

Lynne asked about the statement about socks, that the socks must be above the ankles. Lynne thought that was hard to enforce and it may be hard to find this kind of socks. Most members said they have bought socks that were above the ankle.

Discussion continued about younger children needing to wear belts. Some members felt that the younger children would rather cut off the belt loops than wear a belt. Other members also felt that the younger children in grades K-2 would have trouble changing for gym and going to the restroom with a belt. Mr. Cavanaugh said the schools his children attend all wear belts and he felt it would help with behavior and appearance. A note may need to be added to the dress code policy that belt loops on pants may not be cut off.

 

Discipline Policy

Much time during the meeting was devoted to discussion of the new discipline policy, which is comprised of two sections: one dealing with behavior and the other with academics. Academic points are accumulated on a quarterly basis, and conduct demerits are accumulated on a semester basis.

Mark and Lynne were interested to know what effect this proposed new policy would have had on students last year. Would more students be in detention or on the verge of being expelled?

Concern was voiced about the Saturday detention and the amount of money that families are to be charged. Members felt that the teachers or supervisors needed to be compensated for their time but a few felt that $50 was too high. Other options were discussed such as having parents stay with their children at the Saturday detention and cutting the cost to $25 (two adults must be present to adhere to the Child Protection Decree). The Saturday detention will not be a study hall but a work time for the students.

Changes to the discipline policy were suggested to make the policy more consistent and a more logical progression with the points and demerits. Mr. Cavanaugh will E-mail the changes to members of the commission for comments and approval. All members were asked to check their e-mail and let Mr. Cavanaugh have their thoughts quickly and to copy Joe and other Commission members.

Members of the Commission discussed that the staff and teachers need to be consistent in the administration of the discipline policy. Jodie added that the teachers and staff have the responsibility to the school and the students to enforce the discipline policy.

Mr. Cavanaugh wants very much to reward the students who have good behavior and good academics to reinforce positive behavior.

 

End of the Year Update / High School

The Eighth Grade graduation class totaled 54 students, 33 girls and 21 boys.

 

The girls next year will attend:

16 - McAuley	6 - Roger Bacon
4 - Ursuline Academy	1 - Oak Hills
3 - St. Ursula Academy	1 - East Central (family moved to Indiana)
1 - Walnut Hills	1 - The family is moving to Venezuela

The boys next year will attend:

10 - Roger Bacon	1 - Finneytown
8 - St. Xavier	2 - LaSalle

Unfinished Business

Joe thanked Anita, Bill and Michael for their service on the Education Commission.

Kathy Hartmann (Vacationland Drive) and Martha Siegel were the next in line to serve on the Education Commission from the votes on election Sunday.

Next year the chair and president will be Joe Zins. The vice chair will be Lynne and the secretary will be Ann.

Approval of the Tuesday June 11, 2002 minutes will be done over e-mail because there is no meeting in July and August.

 

Meeting dates for 2002-2003

September 19	October 17	November 14	January 16
February 20	March 20	May 15	June 19

 

Guests

No guests were present

 

Adjournment

Lynne motioned and Bill Cavanaugh seconded that the meeting be adjourned at 9:50pm.