| Friday Focus |
May 25, 2007
| Dear Families and Friends, A cover letter and registration packets for the 2007-2008 school year were sent home last week with your child. All the information and forms you need were included in that packet and can also be found on our website at http://www.sfasonline.org/application.htm. All forms are available for download as PDF documents, requiring Adobe Reader. You can fill in the PDF forms online, print out, sign, and bring the forms in, along with your registration fee, when you come to register for next school year. |
| New Funding Source for Adventist Education |
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With that understanding, Wachovia has a customized financing program for families with children in elementary and high school. I am not advocating that every family incur additional debt, but for some families this may be the only way they can afford an Adventist education! Wachovia is a leader in education lending and is committed to providing exceptional customer service for families seeking financing solutions for you. They now have a customized loan program the will provide families with a number of exciting benefits as you seek to provide your child/ren with an Adventist education. Wachovia’s education loan will even allow you to borrow money to pay balances owed from prior school years. Parents of SFAS students have already been sent a flyer that will answer most of the questions you might have. They also have a dedicated toll-free number for Adventist families: 1-800-657-1236. Soon you will find a link on our website to the loan application documents from Wachovia. The goal of Adventist education is to enrich the lives of our children, encourage their development, and strengthen their faith. I believe this new partnership with Wachovia will make this opportunity available to many families.
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| Early Registration Continues |
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Some families may wish to make an appointment with our accountant, Mr. Jayme, to talk about finances for next year. He may be reached by phone at (510) 541-7114, or by email (see link below). If you have not yet submitted your BASIC Fund forms for us to finish filling out, please do so as soon as possible. |
| Have a good week! Sincerely, Robert J. Robinson, Principal |
| Same and Different |
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| You’re unique. But you’re really the same as me. A couple of days ago, I was talking with a friend who was in trouble. Big trouble. He had been in trouble for a long time, but he hadn’t been able to bring himself to talk to anybody about it. Now the criminal thing he had done was severely compounded by the alcohol he was drinking. He was desperate! It seemed to insult him at one point in the conversation when I replied to an element of his tale of woe with something like this: “You’re not the first person who ever did something that terrible, and there are ways to address it.” Just let me be defensive for a moment. I was trying to tell him that he wasn’t the worst guy in the world. I wanted him to know others of us had made some really bad moves too. And I especially wanted him to believe that there were some known and identified things he could do to move ahead with his life. What he heard appears to have been quite different. Nobody grasps how unique his situation is. Nobody understands how he was alternately “tricked” and “forced” into doing some of the things he did. And nothing is going to make things better – at least, nothing he is responsible for doing can improve things.It seems at least possible to me that some of us have taken the notion of our unique personhood the wrong way. We sometimes want it to mean that we are exceptions to the rules everybody else should keep. We take it to imply that nobody could understand our plight. And we especially don’t want to believe that personal responsibility and guilt attach to messes we’ve made. We want excuses and sympathy for the situation – not accountability and hard work. With all my “uniqueness,” I’m just “the same” as my friend. I can make excuses too. I can project how the problem is everybody’s but mine. I can even blame and judge. Then I can walk away without having to be responsible. The bottom line here is that each of us either chooses to see herself as a helpless pawn in some cosmic game or accepts personal responsibility for living a life that is authentically human. The former is determinism; the latter is freedom. One is confining; the other is liberating. One defeats and limits you; the other unshackles and empowers you. It makes all the difference to believe that what you do actually makes a difference. In that, we are certainly all the same. |
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private education isn’t always cheap, although the value
cannot always be measured in dollars and cents. Many families
struggle to find funding sources that will allow them to place
their most treasured resources--their children--in an Adventist
school. 
Remember,
the deadline for Early Registration is May 31. The registration
fee is $350 until that deadline. After June 1, the registration
fee is $400. 
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