First, thank you Kim for announcing where the kitty is in the photo; I couldn't find him!

I went to public school grades 1 through 8. Pestered my parents mercilessly, I hated public school, I needed to get into the local Catholic all girls high school. I loved it AND wearing a uniform took so much pressure off me re what to wear, what would this one think, what was that one going to say etc.

I was Catholic, not practicing. So I learned my religioun for the first ime pretty much.

In my grade alone, we had 4 Protestants and 3 Jewish girls. Some attended our religious ed classes with us, others were exempt and got a study hall. To be exempt, they had to be attending regular religious instruction in their own faith. Had to be documented, could not go on the parents' say so.

My class was the smallest graduating class in the history of the school (normally the first year such a school opens, that is the smallest; but we were it, the school had been opened 16 years). We were 43 to graduate, and it was the BEST! Of that, 41 of us went directly on to college. The other 2 weren't interested in college and went directly to work; within 4 years, both of them were at college full time too.

Our record will stand, as the school had added lots of new buildings and facilities and incoming classes are now in the 150+ range, ha ha.

Best wishes to your daughter; you are doing a wonderful thing for her!