Some things are worth sacrificing for.

You still have the problem of Tuition for 4 years being almost 25,000 now. Probably over 30,000 at least by the time any upswing in St Mary (where tuition is over 4000 a year I believe) gets to high school. And that is for each child. I would not bank on an increase in enrollment.

Neighbor got a nice Mustang for his 16th birthday. Told my son his car was the tuition I paid for him to go to a catholic school. Well worth the money I paid.

Some things are worth sacrificing for.

 

Neighbor got a nice Mustang for his 16th birthday. Told my son his car was the tuition I paid for him to go to a catholic school. Well worth the money I paid.

 

Proud member of this club.

I've heard it both "not retained" and "released" aka as "fired." AD was also pushed out as well. Principal replaced by Dan Ridder and AD replaced by Adam Franzen.

 

AD position was previously full time position, moved to a part-time position. Adam continues to teach and take on additional duties, thus reducing the FTE headcount but getting the AD job done. This was not a "push out" as much as cost saving. Two additional FTE teachers were let go as well. No comment on the principal position as I do not know details. I think Dan will do a great job in the community as well as in the school.

AD position was previously full time position, moved to a part-time position. Adam continues to teach and take on additional duties, thus reducing the FTE headcount but getting the AD job done. This was not a "push out" as much as cost saving. Two additional FTE teachers were let go as well. No comment on the principal position as I do not know details. I think Dan will do a great job in the community as well as in the school.

 

Splitting hairs. When a coach loses their teaching position but is technically allowed to stay on as coach, knowing full well that won't because they can't pay the bills, we would all call that a "push out," correct?

Splitting hairs. When a coach loses their teaching position but is technically allowed to stay on as coach, knowing full well that won't because they can't pay the bills, we would all call that a "push out," correct?

 

Totally disagree. While an extremely important role, AD does virtually nothing to generate revenue (at least at a small school like Brossart). When the revenue providers (ie. students, or should I say their parents) are diminished (from 90 per class to 50, two consecutive years), you need to cut expenses. Mr. Franzen will add the AD responsibilities to his teaching responsibilities, while the school saves the expense of a FTE.

 

It's a shame Mr. Webster had to lose his job, but what other choice does the school have? Oh yeah .. raise tuition. We know what affect that has ...

The demise of Brossart High School is greatly exaggerated. After three weeks away in Canada, with my phone blowing up on a daily basis with news of change and dismissals I walked into our high school yesterday to find the place bustling with positive vibes, and a renewed "getting back to being Brossart" feeling.

 

Mike Code and his staff were in the gym with 36 aspirant Mustangs at Basketball Open Gym enjoying the new air conditioned comfort. Next week's summer youth boys basketball camp has nearly 80 applicants in hand, which, with a good walk-up will put us at over 100 campers. This on the same week as NCC and Campbell County camp. Josh Feldmann's Girls Summer Youth Basketball Camp was just finishing up for the day where 50 girls were having a good time, while learning the fundamentals of the game. This opposed to 15 girls attending the neighboring high school's camp down the road in Claryville. I learned that Barrett Bradshaw, who steered the Campbell County Girls program last season through tumultuous times as its interim head coach, has now joined the Brossart girls basketball staff.

 

The transition from the old offices to the new offices had taken place and the office staff was busy taking care of business in their new digs.

As I walked up to the 'Old Section" (built in 1995), I was met by Brian Goller and Chris Davis who were already energetically busy readying classrooms for the next school year. Brian smiled and joked, saying "Hi, I'm Brian Goller, the new janitor." Seems the two teachers are pitching in to take some of the duties of the former janitor and are picking up a few bucks to help supplement their teaching salaries as well. Mike Schack, a Brossart alum and our Freshmen basketball coach, will assume the majority of our day-to-day janitorial/custodial duties for the new school year.

Ron Albrinck was also lending a hand, and my classmate Tom Holtz was helping with the physical furnishing of the new building. Adam Franzen walked in the gym, acting, looking and sounding like a professional athletic director.

 

Workers were laying new flooring which will extend through the new building down the old gym hallway all of the way to the former gym front doors - a long overdue improvement.

The chapel is completed with the pews installed, it is awaiting the installation of the side stained glass windows. Sidewalk is being poured and the front turnaround area is being developed. Trees have been cut down, allowing for improved visual exposure to our campus from US27.

I had hoped to pop in and congratulate and wish Dan Ridder the best, but he was out of the office.

 

As I walked by the new state of the art theater I could not help but think with a tinge of sadness that this was truly Dick Stewart's baby, and a bit sad that he will not be here to see it reach fruition. It kind of represented Dick's tenure. He was an academian enthralled with the arts and was pushing Brossart hard in that direction, while many of us were of the ilk that we would have liked to have bulldozed the firehouse and built a new gym, converting the old (present) gym to a theater.

We have open house here every Saturday morning during the school year when the grade school league teams all come to our gym/campus to play in the 7th/8th Grade basketball league, and with kids largely choosing their high school based on their perception of a school's athletic prowess and facilities, a gym capable of handling the crowds who would truly like to see the Mustangs or Lady Stangs play but don't due to our size, and one capable of allowing us to host major tournaments, might have served us better than a theater.

 

As we continue to get back to being Brossart, the good vibes which have been absent over the past few years will return and with them, the student population. While the football program struggles to find itself and is grabbing the majority of the headlines, the remaining 95% of the school's activities are thriving. Through the efforts of Dick Stewart and his vision of us becoming a first-class college prep high school, that has been accomplished. With Dan Ridder we will get the complete package, and once again Brossart Academics and Athletics will function side by side to form the two halves of a quality education.

OK let me throw this into the mix. If there are so called feeder schools, for example. St. Mary's & St. Joe's to BB, St. Thomas, St. Therese & St. Catherine to NCC. Why is there such an issue in BB & NCC. I'm hearing that schools like CCH (only for example) are being permitted to promote their schools within certain CC schools while others are not permitted to.

 

Another example. It would be like BB going to St. Thomas to try and pull kids and NCC going to St. Joes. Both are frowned upon but other schools are permitted to doing that.

 

Sad thing is numbers don't lie. Record freshman classes are being posted at certain private schools while schools like BB & NCCs are not as high as they have been in the past. Just wondering why?

OK let me throw this into the mix. If there are so called feeder schools, for example. St. Mary's & St. Joe's to BB, St. Thomas, St. Therese & St. Catherine to NCC. Why is there such an issue in BB & NCC. I'm hearing that schools like CCH (only for example) are being permitted to promote their schools within certain CC schools while others are not permitted to. Another example. It would be like BB going to St. Thomas to try and pull kids and NCC going to St. Joes. Both are frowned upon but other schools are permitted to doing that.

 

Sad thing is numbers don't lie. Record freshman classes are being posted at certain private schools while schools like BB & NCCs are not as high as they have been in the past. Just wondering why?

 

CovCath is not allowed to promote themselves to any Campbell County Catholic grade school.

 

However, parents put up yard signs, and a near full-page ad ran in the Campbell County Recorder for CovCath's Open House. We cannot stop people from doing things on their private property and accept this, whereas a school paid for full-fledged sign would be contested. We object every year to NCC's putting up school paid-for signs at Pfferman's (sp) Flooring in Cold Spring advertising their Open House. By the time the diocese gets around to doing anything the event is past. We would hope that there would be honor among ourselves that such breaches of trust would not occur, but they continue to happen. NCC advertises their basketball camps, etc., in our parish feeder bulletins and advertise in the programs of our feeder's school tournament programs. Some accept them, others don't. Again it's lose-lose for Brossart. These are direct efforts to lure Brossart district kids to NCC, and in the case of CovCath efforts to lure NCC-Brossart kids to CovCath. We can retaliate and advertise all we want about Brossart in the NCC feeders - everything they do in life is Fort Thomas/Southgate north. They are not coming to Alexandria.

 

In the case of the CovCath ad in the Campbell County Recorder, the explanation was that this was a cost-saving measure. That it was cheaper to run the ad in all Recorder newspapers than just the Kenton County Recorders - what a sweet deal for CovCath.

 

The Brossart feeder kids are under siege. NCC wants what is theirs and what is ours. CovCath, whose numbers and offerings are not that much superior to ours, comes off as being vastly superior to the Campbell County Catholics. My hat's off to them, their marketing department is doing a great job. The mentality of our past administration is that we don't want to ruffle any feathers. I suspect that with Dan Ridder in charge the gloves will come off and we will do a better job of defending our turf, and promoting ourselves within our own district feeders. At least lets hope so.

CovCath is not allowed to promote themselves to any Campbell County Catholic grade school.

 

However, parents put up yard signs, and a near full-page ad ran in the Campbell County Recorder for CovCath's Open House. We cannot stop people from doing things on their private property and accept this, whereas a school paid for full-fledged sign would be contested. We object every year to NCC's putting up school paid-for signs at Pfferman's (sp) Flooring in Cold Spring advertising their Open House. By the time the diocese gets around to doing anything the event is past. We would hope that there would be honor among ourselves that such breaches of trust would not occur, but they continue to happen. NCC advertises their basketball camps, etc., in our parish feeder bulletins and advertise in the programs of our feeder's school tournament programs. Some accept them, others don't. Again it's lose-lose for Brossart. These are direct efforts to lure Brossart district kids to NCC, and in the case of CovCath efforts to lure NCC-Brossart kids to CovCath. We can retaliate and advertise all we want about Brossart in the NCC feeders - everything they do in life is Fort Thomas/Southgate north. They are not coming to Alexandria.

 

In the case of the CovCath ad in the Campbell County Recorder, the explanation was that this was a cost-saving measure. That it was cheaper to run the ad in all Recorder newspapers than just the Kenton County Recorders - what a sweet deal for CovCath.

 

The Brossart feeder kids are under siege. NCC wants what is theirs and what is ours. CovCath, whose numbers and offerings are not that much superior to ours, comes off as being vastly superior to the Campbell County Catholics. My hat's off to them, their marketing department is doing a great job. The mentality of our past administration is that we don't want to ruffle any feathers. I suspect that with Dan Ridder in charge the gloves will come off and we will do a better job of defending our turf, and promoting ourselves within our own district feeders. At least lets hope so.

 

I would say its more CC kids are under siege. With kids/families with strong ties to either BB or NCC kids are going to end up at one school or the other regardless if it is a feeder or not.

 

It's our kids who are crossing the Licking believe the grass is greener that concerns me the most.

I find the talk about catholic feeders interesting. Why, because it was just a few years ago the diocese threatened a suit against the Northern Kentucky Middle School League because they told the parochial schools that they had to designate what parishes went to what team. The diocese said that it was open enrollment, and that any kid, from any parish, could play for any team.

I like being able to choose my kids' schools based on their needs/wants and not just based on where they live.

I find the talk about catholic feeders interesting. Why, because it was just a few years ago the diocese threatened a suit against the Northern Kentucky Middle School League because they told the parochial schools that they had to designate what parishes went to what team. The diocese said that it was open enrollment, and that any kid, from any parish, could play for any team.

 

Its amazing the power that some people think they hold to think they can dictate how we raise our kids and where they should go to school.

CovCath is not allowed to promote themselves to any Campbell County Catholic grade school.

 

However, parents put up yard signs, and a near full-page ad ran in the Campbell County Recorder for CovCath's Open House. We cannot stop people from doing things on their private property and accept this, whereas a school paid for full-fledged sign would be contested. We object every year to NCC's putting up school paid-for signs at Pfferman's (sp) Flooring in Cold Spring advertising their Open House. By the time the diocese gets around to doing anything the event is past. We would hope that there would be honor among ourselves that such breaches of trust would not occur, but they continue to happen. NCC advertises their basketball camps, etc., in our parish feeder bulletins and advertise in the programs of our feeder's school tournament programs. Some accept them, others don't. Again it's lose-lose for Brossart. These are direct efforts to lure Brossart district kids to NCC, and in the case of CovCath efforts to lure NCC-Brossart kids to CovCath. We can retaliate and advertise all we want about Brossart in the NCC feeders - everything they do in life is Fort Thomas/Southgate north. They are not coming to Alexandria. In the case of the CovCath ad in the Campbell County Recorder, the explanation was that this was a cost-saving measure. That it was cheaper to run the ad in all Recorder newspapers than just the Kenton County Recorders - what a sweet deal for CovCath.

 

The Brossart feeder kids are under siege. NCC wants what is theirs and what is ours. CovCath, whose numbers and offerings are not that much superior to ours, comes off as being vastly superior to the Campbell County Catholics. My hat's off to them, their marketing department is doing a great job. The mentality of our past administration is that we don't want to ruffle any feathers. I suspect that with Dan Ridder in charge the gloves will come off and we will do a better job of defending our turf, and promoting ourselves within our own district feeders. At least lets hope so.

 

Agree 100%, unless someone is having a field party. :lol2:

Agree 100%, unless someone is having a field party. :lol2:

 

We'll let you know when this happens! Bring your sleeping bag and tent.