Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Two more reasons why my Parish drives me crazy...m

We received two letters from my Parish this week. Both of these are form letters (very ancient form letters with fill-in-the-blanks, which someone printed years ago and now are copied from copies) with hand-written explanations in the margins.

#1
3/5/12
 Pink Ballerina 7D
has been absent from
Religious Education classes on 10/11; 10/18; 11/8; 11/15; 2/7; 2/28
Please call the Religious Education office to discuss the
Situation or to let us know the reason for the absence.
Sincerely,
(scribble)
Justa Cogg
Assistant - Rel. Ed
Ext 310
Note: Pink Ballerina has missed (6) classes
+ is required to do "make up".
I will notify her teacher. Please
follow up.
Thanx
(scribble)


#2
3/19/12
The Diocese requires us to maintain complete files for all children
in our Religious Education Program. While reviewing our files we
found the following document/documents missing for your child. (Princess Imagination)
Please complete and return to the Religious Education Office as
soon as possible.

*Certificate of Baptism
Sincerely,
(scribble)
Justa Cogg
Assistant - Rel. Ed
*copy required even
if baptized at
Our Parish

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Pink Ballerina has missed several classes this year because of her dizziness issues. She also had a terrible teacher and we requested a transfer to another teacher. While the Office of Religious Education, the Associate Pastor, and the teacher worked that out, Pink Ballerina missed 3 more classes.

Unlike many of her CCD classmates, Pink Ballerina actually attends Mass every week. She has been attending Children's Liturgy Mass since she was 4, and has been helping there since she was about 10. She knows all the Sacraments, the liturgical seasons of the year and what they mean (and even the color of vestments), and can list most of the Ten Commandments. Even more importantly, she understands what the Ten Commandments mean.

As for Princess Imagination, I have to go to the Parish Office, get a copy of her Baptismal record, and then walk 1 block down the street, and give it to the Religious Education Office at the school.

At least these two problems are minor annoyances caused by simply bureaucratic ineptitude, quite unlike the petty politics that runs, and ruins, everything else at our Parish.
Mominator

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