Notre Dame Catholic School closing

By Nancy Pasternack
The Appeal-Democrat
Marysville, CA

When teachers at Notre Dame Catholic School received the bad news last week, they gave their students an extra-long recess outdoors, and cried.

Then they pulled themselves together and threw the Valentine's Day party the children were expecting.

After more than 150 years of offering catechism instruction along with reading, writing and arithmetic, Notre Dame Catholic School in Marysville will graduate its last eighth-grade class this year.

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Broughton and an advisory board made up of parents and students already have begun the process of trying to create a new public charter school within the Marysville Joint Unified School District.

Hopefully, Broughton said, "we'll be able to continue the school, but without the religious instruction."

The group will model the charter school on one in Paradise that has a similar history and population, Broughton said.

Eisermann, Kemmerly and the school's other teachers say they support the charter school idea, and that they will teach at the new school, if it comes to fruition.



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