“”It is an embarrassment and a scandal, and will drive even more Catholics away from an institution so out of touch with its times,” said Robert Hague, a high school English teacher for 50 years.”
Why does this idiot English teacher think Catholic parents send their kids to Catholic School in the first place? To learn about how to sin against their religion?
If they closed all the Catholic schools, his school tax would skyrocket. And he would find some way to blame the Catholic schools. Idiot!
“Why does this idiot English teacher think Catholic parents send their kids to Catholic School in the first place? To learn about how to sin against their religion?”
Many parents (Catholic or not) use Catholic schools just to avoid the public schools; too often the parents themselves aren’t in it for the religion itself. Here in NJ our Catholic school system was destroyed because the Church didn;t seem that interested in saving them with pushing for vouchers or something similar (our public school taxes make it practically to afford any private school). They focused on some urban efforts (in which many students weren;t Catholic anyway), but left the suburban Catholic populations on their own.
I asked an older friend of mine who is an avid Bingo player why her parish still ran it (usually a means of subsidizing a school) if their school closed a few years ago; she had no idea what they were using the money for at this point.
These recent news stories about the falling percentage of Hispanics that belong to the Catholic Church is related to this as well; Catholic education would inspire members to keep the faith as they got older, but when the schools were closed and the priests were just asking Hispanic families for money to support the priests in the rectory I guess some just walked away...