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Star of the Sea School to close down at end of 2018-2019 term

A photo of Star of the Sea School’s students from the school’s website.

On Wednesday, officials from Star of the Sea School announced that the school, grades K – 8, will close down at the end of the 2018-2019 school year. The Catholic school was founded in 1909 and has served generations of San Francisco children in the Richmond District.

“This past year has been particularly difficult for everyone involved in our school…Many have worked hard to build bridges between the parish and the school as well as develop an Integrated Classical Program, and none of that effort is wasted. We see now, however, that it is wiser to take additional time to properly study, design, market and fund the Integrated Classical Program at Star of the Sea. We have done everything possible to maintain classes uninterrupted during this time of transition, but due to a projected low enrollment for the upcoming school year, we regret that we must suspend Kindergarten through Eighth Grade classes for next year,” wrote Fr. Joseph Illo of Star of the Sea.

The decision comes after a tumultuous month of contention between parents and the school’s administration. In a meeting on March 7, parents and school officials, including Star of the Sea Parish pastor Fr. Joseph Illo, met to discuss the school’s future in light of a rapidly declining enrollment. In 2014, the school had 240 students enrolled but for Fall 2019, as few as 60 students were expected to re-enroll.

After the meeting, which included a heated confrontation between Fr. Illo and parents, an anonymous complaint was filed with the Department of Catholic Schools. The complaint alleges that Fr. Illo was confrontational and aggressive towards a parent that accused him of being responsible for the school’s decline.

“Fr. Illo then sought to publicly humiliate the couple by demanding that the husband order his wife to apologize to him for her previous comments,” the complaint continued.

Some parents decided to remove their children from Star of the Sea School after the contentious meeting.

Star of the Sea Church on Geary Blvd

Different views on why the school is closing

Many school parents blame the arrival of Fr. Illo in 2014 to Star of the Sea for the steady decline in students. Illo has spearheaded the change to a Classic Catholic curriculum at the school. 2018-2019 was the first school year in which the new curriculum was fully implemented.

School administrators contend that some parents were not open to the new Classic Curriculum and decided to move their children to other schools as a result.

“This has been a difficult and uncertain period for many parents, and some of whom have strongly expressed their concerns and reluctance to this development,” Illo wrote in his statement on Wednesday.

But parents say that it wasn’t the curriculum change so much as it was Fr. Illo’s attitudes and beliefs, and his subsequent treatment of students and their parents.

After Illo banned girls from being altar servers and distributed a pamphlet about sexual topics to Star of the Sea School students as young as eight in 2015, parents were on the defensive as they saw the school’s values and teachings changing under Illo’s leadership.

In 2015, parents also learned of Illo’s involvement in a lawsuit at his former parish in Modesto, California where he was accused of inflicting emotional distress on an 11-year old student after he made her confront another pastor that the girl had claimed abused her. The suit was settled.

In Wednesday’s announcement, Fr. Illo said the Star of the Sea preschool will remain open and that they will “build greater collaboration between our fully-enrolled preschool and our elementary school”.

It’s unclear if the elementary school will re-open and when. Some parents fear that the Archdiocese will instead choose the lease the school grounds out to another organization, or use the space in another money-making venture that would prevent the school from re-opening.

Regardless of the school’s future, it’s clear that many parents would not return their children to the school as long as Fr. Illo is in charge.

Sarah B.

26 Comments

  1. This is what happens when priests fail to live by example and instead live by decree.

  2. It is a devastating result. All of this could have so easily need addressed by the Archbishop but he chose to emphasize politics over families.

  3. i’m sad for you, bob, and all the families who had such long histories at star of the sea. integrists are the death of human societies, wherever they insert themselves.

  4. My grandson will be in the last graduating class from Star (2019). His great grandfather graduated from Star of the Sea in 1929. So sad?

  5. Others have said it, and I will repeat: The Catholic Liberal Education model is not the reason most families chose to leave. It is the manner by which the pastor chose to roll it out and execute it that was the final straw for many dedicated families who wanted nothing more than for their children to stay at the school and be taught by the teachers they loved. Relegating girls to the kitchen to make sandwiches for the ladies of the parish while banishing them from the altar; taking every ounce of joy out of the annual Christmas concert by forbidding them to sing “secular carols” in the church. (How old were you when you learned the word “secular”?) Forcing a long-standing progressive school community to defer to the values of the ultra-conservative parish in one year? It was set up to fail, and likely by design.

    And like most people who stand up to the Church, we have been set up for victim blaming and are expected to take on the guilt for removing our children from what many perceive to be a highly toxic and unsafe situation. The coming months and years will reveal the real reasons why things unfolded this way. And I’ll bet a dollar it has to do with real estate values, not the fact that the school was less than 50% Catholic.

    The teachers and principal are all wonderful people, and many of us stayed until the last possible moment because of them. But, it ultimately became clear that they are powerless in the face of the pastor’s agenda and had to either fall in line with him or leave themselves.

    Pray for the teachers and students who are in search of new spiritual, professional and educational homes. And if the teachers lose their pensions or other retirement benefits, that needs to be exposed for all the world to see, and made right by the Archdiocese.

  6. I for one, am not surprised by the surmise of Star of the Sea grammar school. I attended grammar school there, I attended the all girl high school Freshmen year, my kids went there, I was married there, baptized there, my kids were baptized there. We have a long history and for many years we were very vested in the school. But times have changed and not for the better.
    The first sign of trouble is when they had a principal that eliminated the First Honors/Second Honors program. Many families felt this was the most important part of the curriculum in which children who did well scholastically got a nice certificate and were awarded said certificates in a nice school ceremony. It is such a morale booster to be honored publicly for hard work.
    After that m, only sports seemed to be the only way a student could shine. This is so unfair for students who are not interested in sports and worked hard in studies, drama, or art….None of which seemed to count. Then of course this same principal the following year after dismantling the Honor Roll Program, quit in the middle of the following school year to pursue a job in another Catholic school that offered more money. This made Star scramble for a new principal!
    During the time that the Honor Roll program was being dismantled, parents met with this principal to voice their opinion on this matter of Honor roll elimination, plus the criteria of the Ron Seibel award which had included grades as part of the criteria. We found out in retrospect that the student chosen to be awarded this prestigious award, did not have a decent GPA. All other previous students of previous years shined scholastically as well as being personable and a well rounded student. So the parents, we figured, that was the ulterior motive of eliminating the Honor Roll Program, so the principal, she could give it to a student that would otherwise not qualify. It was political and so unfair. Naturally parents that knew the programs and all the rules and criteria, were quite upset.
    When the school decided the librarian would teach my child 4th grade, I and several other parents opted out and enrolled our children to different Catholic schools. This was a wise decision as I heard from parents whose children stayed at Star, the new teacher was inept and quite abusive towards certain students. This is unacceptable in any type of school for any child.
    Now this present Monsignor is supposedly abusive and definitely unfair to the girls at Star by deciding that only boys could be altar servers. From articles that I have read, the present Monsignor is confrontational and dismissive of concerns of the parents of school children. Of course, enrollment will fail with this environment, there are plenty of other Catholic schools in the City that would be happy to take in transfers from Star.
    It’s an ending to an era. I truly believe that money is the real reason the Archdiocese allowed this to go on at Star of the Sea. What better way and reason than to close the doors of the school and blame lack of enrollment so that they can rent or sell out Star to a real estate developer. 8th/9th Avenue and Geary In SF is prime real estate afterall. It’s sad, but I’m not surprised.

  7. So sorry to learn of this impasse and suspension of classes at Star! A very unfortunate turn of events! There are clearly different visions of goals and of what role Catholic education (and the role of altar servers) is to play as means to them. These have to be debated and understood. A note…While the article points out an evident crisis in leadership, it then reports an “anonymous complain” filed against the pastor. I would caution against reporting such things, because it is essentially an “ad hominem” attack on the person of the pastor, based on subjective hearsay. It adds nothing to the debate, but fuels vindictiveness toward another person in a public forum. For those of us who attended Star, this is not what we learned to do.

  8. I totally forgot about Honor Roll awards at Star when I was a student there!

    Thank you for reminding me of them. I vividly remember working very hard for that achievement year after year, and the sense of accomplishment and pride upon receiving it.

    This was due in no small part to the wonderful teachers and educators at Star that helped lead the way.

  9. This news is a sad commentary on the directino this archbishop has taken the Catholic Church in SF, Marin, and San Mateo Counties. He’s not line with Pope Francis in the least.

  10. MJP says that Archbishop C is “not [in] line with Pope Francis.” Perhaps not. But I’m not so sure about the viability of what people think of as the Pope Francis-model of Catholicism, i.e., liberal, nonjudgmental, more concerned with issues like climate change and migrants than doctrine. It hardly seems like Pope Francis is drawing people back to the Church. If anything, the decline is accelerating. You can see that in Pope Francis’ weekly audiences which feature far more empty seats than the audiences of his predecessors. A few weeks ago, I read that a priest said being a priest in the Catholic Church in 2019 feels like working at a Blockbuster in 2005; we’re arguing about how to arrange the DVDs when the whole enterprise is on the brink of tanking.

  11. Hi Joe,
    I was an eyewitness to Illo’s shocking behavior at the March 7 meeting, and I also anticipated skepticism about the anonymous writers of the resulting complaint. Which was why when the story first broke, in the National Catholic Reporter online, I was willing to be quoted by name: “I’ve seen the complaint, it is accurate, and I support it.”

    Your skepticism is well-reasoned, while many people’s skepticism is simply bias or cynicism (particularly online, where much of the skepticism has also been anonymous).

    The many Star parents I’ve reached out to join me in speaking on the record say two things: I’m afraid it might affect my child, and I’m afraid of retribution from the Archdiocese. I think it’s one thing to make an anonymous complaint to a formal authority about a third party, quite another to make an anonymous complaint ABOUT that same authority. I respect that fear of retribution, and so respect people’s desire to remain anonymous. I simply don’t share that fear. So I’ve tried to keep my quote out front, but unfortunately it is the nature of the news cycle and social media that my on-the-record comment is now buried at the bottom of everything else.

    At least 11 families from a single class pulled their children out of Star of the Sea School after witnessing Illo’s behavior in that meeting. I think, more than anything, that speaks to the veracity of the anonymous complaint.

    I’m very sorry to your alma mater closing. So many people are heartbroken. It was once a wonderful school.

  12. Some advice for eye low.
    If You Translate Every Mistake Of Your Life Into a ‘Positive’ One, You Will Never Be A ‘Prisoner Of Your Past’, . But A Designer Of Your Future

    Only problem he doesn’t see his mistakes and blames the families who he alienated. This is about seeing your mistakes and not covering them up and spitting out lies.

    Maybe someone should do a self inventory?

    A narcissistic personality disorder causes problems in many areas of life, such as relationships, work, school or financial affairs. People with narcissistic personality disorder may be generally unhappy and disappointed when they’re not given the special favors or admiration they believe they deserve. They may find their relationships unfulfilling, and others may not enjoy being around them.

    Treatment for narcissistic personality disorder centers around talk therapy (psychotherapy).

    Symptoms
    Signs and symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder and the severity of symptoms vary. People with the disorder can:

    Have an exaggerated sense of self-importance
    Have a sense of entitlement and require constant, excessive admiration
    Expect to be recognized as superior even without achievements that warrant it
    Exaggerate achievements and talents
    Be preoccupied with fantasies about success, power, brilliance, beauty or the perfect mate
    Believe they are superior and can only associate with equally special people
    Monopolize conversations and belittle or look down on people they perceive as inferior
    Expect special favors and unquestioning compliance with their expectations
    Take advantage of others to get what they want
    Have an inability or unwillingness to recognize the needs and feelings of others
    Be envious of others and believe others envy them
    Behave in an arrogant or haughty manner, coming across as conceited, boastful and pretentious
    Insist on having the best of everything — for instance, the best car or office
    At the same time, people with narcissistic personality disorder have trouble handling anything they perceive as criticism, and they can:

    Become impatient or angry when they don’t receive special treatment
    Have significant interpersonal problems and easily feel slighted
    React with rage or contempt and try to belittle the other person to make themselves appear superior
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    Experience major problems dealing with stress and adapting to change
    Feel depressed and moody because they fall short of perfection
    Have secret feelings of insecurity, shame, vulnerability and humiliation
    When to see a doctor

    People with narcissistic personality disorder may not want to think that anything could be wrong, so they may be unlikely to seek treatment. If they do seek treatment, it’s more likely to be for symptoms of depression, drug or alcohol use, or another mental health problem. But perceived insults to self-esteem may make it difficult to accept and follow through with treatment.

  13. I attended catechism at Star of the Sea. Received First Holy Communion confirmation at Star of the sea. It was a long time Family Parish until I move to Marin County in 1986. Attended many family weddings and unfortunately many family funerals there

  14. Archdiocese of San Francisco, we know that Illo will remain at Star. How is it possible that a repeated failure is consistently rewarded? Oratory of St. Philip Neri-FAIL. Star of the Sea Classical School-FAIL. The critical life lesson for the children of Star of the Sea is: It is who you know (Cordileone) not what you know (Nothing much). We pray that you closely monitor your employee in the coming years. Watch for the signs of NPD and consider treatment for the disorder. If anything, everyone knows the Archdiocese is well-experienced at getting rid of perceived risks.

    People with NPD, also known as narcissists, are reportedly happier than others in society. Being highly materialistic, self-enhancing, entitled and impulsive, they may not learn from mistakes, and have a tendency to get into even greater trouble, notably legal and disciplinary (Ronningstam & Weinberg, 2013). These maladaptive coping mechanisms can result in issues in the work place or in school, or unemployment.
    Patients with NPD tend to be drawn to people of a high societal class, who think very highly of them (Campbell, Miller, & Widiger, 2010). Patients with NPD may exhibit an unforgiving nature and showcase anger and aggression in such close relationships (Ronningstam & Weinberg, 2013). This can also affect work relationships or any close group activities.

    Treatment for Narcissistic Personality Disorder
    The core of treatment lies with individual psychotherapy, which consists mainly of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. In addition, other types of therapy may be utilized, such as family, group, couples therapies, plus cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT).

    Psychotherapy
    1. Direct confrontation of the NPD patient during therapy, with the goal of eliminating or weakening the patient’s grandiosity AND/OR
    2. A more empathic role, that encourages the patient’s grandiosity, thus strengthening the patient’s naturally deficient self image

    Other Forms of Therapy
    Some speculate that NPD patients may experience difficulty handing group sessions, since they lack the traits needed for group therapy like patience, connectivity, and empathy.
    The use of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in treating NPD mainly involves the particular form of CBT recognized as schema-focused therapy, that focuses on fixing narcissistic schemas and the flawed moods and coping mechanisms

    Long-Term Monitoring
    It is important for NPD patients to receive close long-term monitoring.

  15. I am saddened about the closing of Star of the Sea School. I attended a different SF parochial school, but this blog prompted a fond Star memory. When I was in grade school In the 70’s, Star of the Sea sponsored an all-city math contest for girls. 7th and 8th Grade girls from numerous schools crammed into the gym on a Satuday to take a math test. There were awards, trophies and genrallly a celebration of girl brain power. Looking back, Star of the Sea was ahead of its time in promoting STEM for girls. I just wanted to pass on that small part of the long SOTS legacy, which was important to me (as a future engineer) and I’m sure many other girls.

  16. I went to read Fr. Illo’s Blog and instead of finding something that would comfort us through these tough times I see this post http://www.frilloblog.com where he talks about us being unhappy about the curriculum and tries to insinuate that our community is violent and destructive. My car was broken into twice near Star of the Sea and I do not believe that anyone would do that to him in spite. This is his obvious sick attempt to make this about something else.

    He should be honest and say people are leaving because they do not like me and the way I tried to make too many changes too fast. They do not like my policy of not allowing girls to be Altar Servers. They do not trust me, and I don’t know how to change that.

    I just googled catholic schools closing and I discovered two things. First, there are a lot of Catholic Schools across the country closing. Second, their announcements to their communities are very different. Take this announcement for example. https://www.kmov.com/news/following-recommendation-of-priest-archdiocese-to-close-st-james-parish/article_2fe06994-1dd0-11e9-859c-dfed4944c982.html

    Here is a small expert –

    “Those who are angry and upset with me, I sincerely apologize for the pain my parish councils and I have caused you. We explored many avenues to keep the school open while stabilizing the future of our parish, but we could not balance both. We, the parish councils and parishioners, share in your pain.

    Our parish will always be open to you. ”

    Just this part alone is something we have not remotely heard.
    Fr. Illo you have your opportunity and a voice through your blog and your actions. Let us see you use it in a way that helps ALL OF US through this ordeal. We don’t want to hear about you opening something new in the future and we want to hear how we can all move on from this. We may not respect you, we may go on the news and say we are disappointed in you, we will continue to dispute your false claims til the end, but we all need a leader at this time to close the doors in peace. You are a preist in charge of a parish and a school who needs to be above all of this. If you can’t do it then please have someone else do so.

    Star of the Sea Pray for Us!

  17. Joe,
    You are the only person who I have heard from Star of the Sea who has spoken in favor of the discriminatory Altar server policy outside of Fr. JOEsph Illo and his marketing team. If you were actually planning to return to the school, I would assume you were at the March 7th meeting and you witnessed a leader completely fail on many levels. Remove the alleged threat from the situation, JOEsph did not attempt to do anything to bring the community together other than starting the meeting with a prayer and even that wasn’t impressive. I’d like to hear from you what words he stated at the meeting that were comforting, inspiring, humble, visionary, knowledgable, and represented a competent leader. I also find it strange that you anonymously challenge an anonymous report which has been verified by many witnesses to be accurate. I find it more concerning how the Archdiocese dismissed the report and never has reached out to the community for input and confirmation and instead they flippantly dismiss it. A crime was not committed but a Pastor blatantly failed to represent his position as a leader. His abhorrent behavior is once again sanctioned by the Archdiocese.

    Joe, I look forward to seeing you at this Wednesday’s parent meeting and discussing this in person. The community meeting would not frown upon you as you know that all of our meetings outside of March 7th have been very positive and supportive. March 7th was emotional mayhem because desperate parents who loved the school and were there to learn how our leader was going to move forward. Instead, we discovered that there was no plan other than, “Register for next year or else expect to see more teachers laid off”. There is no attacking you here Joe, and I respectfully ask you to show us how this is “ad hominem” . Maybe I missed it and please enlighten me. Bless you Joe.

  18. Illo posted a new blog entry last evening, which contained this disingenuous description of Thursday’s events at Star of the Sea School:

    “…news trucks began arriving. They never asked to interview me but they spent the entire day interviewing the acutely unhappy parents. Some want to make sure most of San Francisco is unhappy with Fr. Illo and his vision of a traditional Catholic school.”

    The reporter who interviewed me Thursday had told me of her unsuccessful efforts to interview Illo, so I sent her a link to Illo’s blog entry.

    Lo and behold, this morning Illo’s blog had been revised:

    “The next thing that happened was the arrival of news cameras. They spent the entire day interviewing the acutely unhappy parents. Some want to make sure most of San Francisco is unhappy with Fr. Illo and his vision of a traditional Catholic school.”

    How many other untrue statements can you find in Illo’s post? How far is Illo willing to go to distort the truth?

    Illo is an extremist who killed a loving school community with his intolerance, his incompetence, his hostility to the school parents, and his grotesque insensitivity to the needs of children.

    I was a Star parent; I withdrew my child ASAP after witnessing Illo’s outburst of impotent rage at the March 7th community meeting. After four years of Illo’s insults and failures, that was the last straw. Nine other families from a single class quickly withdrew their children as well.

    The closing of Star was not and never will be about the curriculum, despite the Archdiocese’s and Illo’s transparently false disinformation campaign. Why did Star of the Sea School close? Because Illo cannot be trusted.

  19. Father Joseph, please join with me, as Saint Catherine of Bologna before us, and say a thousand hail marys for thy has sinned. Together let us pray,

    Hail Mary, full of grace.
    Our Lord is with you.
    Blessed are you among women,
    and blessed is the fruit of your womb,
    Jesus.
    Holy Mary, Mother of God,
    pray for us sinners,
    now and at the hour of our death.
    Amen.

    Leave a message for Father Joseph at dearjoseph.home.blog

  20. First the Convent. Now the School. Soon the Church. Frankly none of it is going to last very long. It’s own undoing.

  21. After reading Fr. Illo’s latest blog, it seems to me that he continues to act like a delusional narcissist. He claims that he will re-open Star of the Sea again.

    1. Fr. Illo’s most recent blog post he admits to losing over $700,000 this year alone. I would assume that no other elementary school has ever lost that much money in one year. He has failed as a leader in epic proportions and he is going to be given a second chance?

    2. He couldn’t even maintain 5% of a school’s population let alone draw more than 5 new students and now he thinks he is going to draw new interest?

    3. A resumed school at Star will be the biggest liability mistake that the Archdiocese makes besides keeping Fr. Illo as a school leader. Keeping a school open that needs a seismic retrofit is one thing as it is an acceptable practice to keep a school open while raising funds for repairs. To open or even re-open a school in a dangerous building is blatant negligence. This is especially true if your corporation owns Billions in property where you can open it in a safer building or sell off property to come up with the 7 million (which is an old estimate) to repair the building.

    4. The Archdiocese continues to let Fr. Illo steal from the rest of the diocese as that building should now be put into use so the funds could help the other schools become stronger. This has been done with their other buildings where tenant schools fix the property and then move in. Instead, after losing almost a million dollars this failed leader is going to lose more money by having an empty building, hiring people to do something that he failed to do when he had a chance, and then open a school for a handful of people that will need hundreds of thousands of dollars to offset expenses to operate. Why?

    5. Doesn’t a “suspended” school allow a corrupt leader to hold onto scholarship money designated for Star of the Sea School or to go to other schools if the school were to close? Is this another example of theft from people who could be using the funds?

    6. It doesn’t matter what curriculum is brought into the school as long as you have a Priest who has anger issues, control issues, incompetence, a record of epic failures, and discriminates against girls, he will NEVER be able to draw quality educators or students.

    7. His Ignorance in building a school around only a curriculum even made his own parishioners leave the school as other schools offer better services at a lower cost. Not having mixed classes, having specialty subject teachers, team sports, after-school programs, girls being allowed to be altar servers, and a happy community are all things that he does not value and underestimates in building something successful.

    8. Watch him kill the Pre-School next. Since his arrival, the matriculation from pre-school to the grade school has dropped in epic proportions.

  22. Too bad but the archdiocese is about money. I went to St Mary’s in Chinatown and when enrollment declined, the school was closed. St Mary’s had to get a loan to build a new building and between that and the low enrollment, that was the end of the school.

  23. Warning! Fraudulent staff working on school’s staff! Please read on:

    The curriculum and teachings of Father Illo is partially to blame for the turmoil at Star of The Sea School. The school’s staff needs a total overhaul from the top down as well if it is to survive. The problem with the Catholic Archdiocese is that it often hires from the inside, often handing out jobs to associates who are the least bit qualified. One of these individuals we are calling out is the School’s Program Coordinator Mary Macdonnell. The school has been going downhill ever since she arrived. There have been widespread allegations by parents who have withdrawn their children from SOTS due to verbal abuse by Macdonnell. This individual sometimes has a nasty temper unfit for her job, experienced by not only the grade students, but some of their parents as well. One would expect someone in her position to at least have a college degree related to working with children. This is not to be the case. Our own investigations have uncovered some very disturbing things. Not only does Macdonnell NOT hold a college degree of any kind, she graduated from high school with less than exemplary grades. Macdonnell’s only real experience where children are concerned is with babysitting other people’s children at home. This endeavor didn’t pan out and she had to quit due to complaints from clients. She has also been telling parents and other staff members that she worked as a bookeeper at Saint James Catholic school in San Francisco. That turned out to be a lie as well. According to the people there, she was never a paid employee at the school as a bookkeeper or any other capacity. Instead, she volunteered to run errands(mostly delivering and receiving items) in exchange for free tuition for her son. Furthermore, the Macdonnells have had a lien placed against their home for many years due to their refusal to pay the water bill. In 2016, the SFWD conducted an audit of the Macdonnells on suspicion that they were attempting to manipulate the water meter to their advantage. In 2018 a new water meter was installed in front of the Macdonnell’s residence by the WDP and they were given an ultimatum to pay or risk having their water supply cut off. In October of 2005, a police complaint was filed against Mary Macdonnell by Comcast for signal theft. This matter was eventually settled out of court in order to avoid criminal charges. For anyone who has children enrolled at SOTS or is planning to should reconsider further enrollment. The culture of cronism and sinecures by the Archdiocese must stop if their churches and schools are to survive. In addition to filing complaints with the Archdiocese, I would also advise bringing this matter to the attention of Child Protective Services and the SFPD SUV Unit. Mary Macdonnell shouldn’t be working at SOTS in the first place. This wouldn’t have happened if only the Archdiocese had taken time out to do a background check on one of the things listed above. instead of hiring the first person off the street.

  24. Yeah, the Program co-ordinator has got to go. She has a bad attitude, is rude, and somehow lied her way into this job without the proper credentials. When is the Archdiocese going to take responsibility and learn that you can’t just hand out jobs to someone they know based on their own word? There has to be accountability and transparency somewhere along the lines. I’d also fire the receptionist who’s also rude and has an attitude problem. Star of the Sea has to replace their entire staff with reliable personnel who are actually committed if they are to continue their schooling program. As things now stand, I would not recommend enrollment or re-enrollment until Sea of the Star gets their act together and eliminate the criminal elements within the organization.

  25. Bright Works School will now take over Star Of The Sea.

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