It has been a crazy, busy, frustrating, uplifting, exhausting, irritating, blessed and joyous week all rolled into one. Add being a single parent (Jeff was traveling) and it just about did me in.
This week we, the parents, alumnae and friends of John's school, have encountered/completed the following:
- dropped our children off Monday for what we thought would be a normal April school day (and also Teacher Appreciation Day)
- learned abruptly around 10 am that the Director and teachers had been fired
- immediately pulled our children out of the school (ALL of us. Every. Single. One.)
- met under the trees of Dartmouth park and cried, prayed and ultimately hatched a plan
- incorporated a new school
- secured a temporary location for our new school
- secured insurance (!!!) for the school
- enrolled all children in this school
- continued school throughout the weekend in many locations across town
- met as a parent/alumnae/friend group 3 times
- began investigating permanent locations
- obtained a Federal Identification Number
- registered with both the Department of Education and the State Department of Education
- fingerprinted and ran background checks on every single person that might come into contact with the children (including me :) )
- started the process of filing for non-profit status
- consulted with non-profit attorneys and CPA's
- set up payroll
- voted a Board of Directors
- opened a bank account
- raised $$$
- planned two fundraisers
PHEW.
About 10,393 other things occurred as well, but I can't remember them all.
I'm exhausted, but so very excited and grateful for this community we are so blessed to be a part of. I think I'll be feeling the emotions of this week for a very long time. It was amazing.
Friday April 30, 2010
Wow! Wow! Wow! I cannot imagine how emotional of a week this must have been for you. The amount of work that all of you have accomplished in one week is inspiring and makes me believe there is definitely someone looking out for all of you with big things in store for the future...
ReplyDeleteSending my love and the best of luck!
It's insane to think about what we did in a matter of days. The leadership of this school is so amazing and we couldn't imagine our children not sticking together and learning under them. While we've lots of work ahead, everyone fully believes that our new school will be even better. Thanks for the love and thoughts. We need them.
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