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11 thoughts on “St Ann’s School To Close At End Of School Year”
St. Ann’s is a wonderful school, where my son was so happy. He had one of the best pre-school teachers we could have asked for, Barbara Jean Ciolino. I am extremely saddened by this news.
I find it very sad that the church would wait until this late in the year to inform parents. Now they will have to scramble to find placement for next year. The children and staff have been sadly left without the school that they loved.
fight it! don’t take this! if people protest,and there’s enough of an outcry – they may back down. All those who went through St. Ann’s School start flooding the archdiocese with letters, phone calls etc. We had this experience with our church in South Boston – they thought they were going to close Gate of Heaven Church – until all parishioners past and present protested. I wish you all luck and I hope the archdiocese re-thinks this decision
Maybe this is the same sick feeling my mother had in the pit of her stomach they closed the high school? She went to St.Ann’s for 12 years so I had to go too…luckily for me the high school was closed by the time I graduated in ’69. I was set FREE to GHS! Another piece of my childwood be driven away.
I hope this is not a final – cannot be revoked – announcement.
I am a 12 year St. Ann’s student. I had a choice when I went to high school – and I chose St.Ann’s (almost changed my mind) I am so very glad I did. No, not all the nuns were super stars – but the education was sound and living in the Parish environment where all the priests and nuns knew me and took an interest in ‘the whole’ of me has been a valuable foundation on which to build my whole life.
I pray that a way can be found to keep St.Ann’s a part of the Gloucester experience for decades to come.
I’m glad this torture chamber and school of horrors has closed. I hope all of the nuns there in the 60s and 70s (and most of the other teachers) are rotting in a deep, burning hell. Humiliating, verbally abusing and physically beating children is always wrong, especially when it’s done in god’s name. Those women were not people of god. And what they did left deep, unhealing scars on many of the children from those decades. I hope the entire Catholic Church goes bankrupt and disappears forever.
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St. Ann’s is a wonderful school, where my son was so happy. He had one of the best pre-school teachers we could have asked for, Barbara Jean Ciolino. I am extremely saddened by this news.
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so sorry to hear of this
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I taught in a Catholic school and it is a must that we keep them open.This is sad news for the people of Gloucester!
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Was enrollment down? This really comes as a shock.
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I find it very sad that the church would wait until this late in the year to inform parents. Now they will have to scramble to find placement for next year. The children and staff have been sadly left without the school that they loved.
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fight it! don’t take this! if people protest,and there’s enough of an outcry – they may back down. All those who went through St. Ann’s School start flooding the archdiocese with letters, phone calls etc. We had this experience with our church in South Boston – they thought they were going to close Gate of Heaven Church – until all parishioners past and present protested. I wish you all luck and I hope the archdiocese re-thinks this decision
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Maybe this is the same sick feeling my mother had in the pit of her stomach they closed the high school? She went to St.Ann’s for 12 years so I had to go too…luckily for me the high school was closed by the time I graduated in ’69. I was set FREE to GHS! Another piece of my childwood be driven away.
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VERY SAD DAY… MY GRANDSON GOES TO PK THERE FOR 2 YEARS WAS GOING TO KINDERGARTEN THIS FALL. WHY ARE THEY CLOSING?
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I hope this is not a final – cannot be revoked – announcement.
I am a 12 year St. Ann’s student. I had a choice when I went to high school – and I chose St.Ann’s (almost changed my mind) I am so very glad I did. No, not all the nuns were super stars – but the education was sound and living in the Parish environment where all the priests and nuns knew me and took an interest in ‘the whole’ of me has been a valuable foundation on which to build my whole life.
I pray that a way can be found to keep St.Ann’s a part of the Gloucester experience for decades to come.
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This is a very sad notice. My foundation of a successful life was forged there
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I’m glad this torture chamber and school of horrors has closed. I hope all of the nuns there in the 60s and 70s (and most of the other teachers) are rotting in a deep, burning hell. Humiliating, verbally abusing and physically beating children is always wrong, especially when it’s done in god’s name. Those women were not people of god. And what they did left deep, unhealing scars on many of the children from those decades. I hope the entire Catholic Church goes bankrupt and disappears forever.
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