C.C.D. PROGRAM GUIDELINES

Students are to attend all classes and are to report to the classroom on time. If an absence is unavoidable, parents are asked to call the C.C.D. Office to report the absence and are to follow the class syllabus we provide and teach the lesson the child will have missed. Students must complete the "chapter review" for each chapter done at home to receive credit for the week.

To receive the Sacraments of Reconciliation, Eucharist or Confirmation, a child must faithfully attend all C.C.D. classes and our Sacramental Preparation programs. Please refer to the schedules on this web site for grades 2, 6, 7, 8, and 9. (Diocesan policy #122, "To be admitted to the sacraments, children must have sufficient knowledge...to understand the Mystery of Christ...so they can receive the sacraments with faith and devotion.)

Parents are not to take children from class before dismissal time. Any request for each dismissal must be made through the program manager.

Parents are asked to wait for their children in the hallway until the dismissal bell.

Disruptive behavior will not be tolerated. Any student sent to the office because of poor behavior will be asked to call his/her parents to come and pick him/her up. Parents will then need to arrange a meeting with the teacher, program manager, and the student before the student will be admitted back into the classroom.

If it is necessary to cancel classes due to inclement weather, cancellation notices will be broadcast on KDKA radio (1020AM), KDKA-TV and WTAE-TV. The cancellation will also be posted on the web site home page at www.stcatherineofsweden.org. Decisions regarding cancellation are not finalized until 1:00 p.m. Please do not call the C.C.D. Office before 1:00 p.m. Parental judgment concerning road conditions in your neighborhood should be a deciding factor in all cases.

The C.C.D. Office has a Lost and Found department. Items will be held for thirty days. There is a $15.00 charge to replace a lost C.C.D. textbook.