Posted on 01/13/2004 8:57:26 AM PST by chance33_98
Holy Cross to Admit Girls in 2005
LAST UPDATE: 1/13/2004 8:14:49 AM Posted By: Jim Forsyth
After 48 years as an all-boy institution, San Antonio's Holy Cross High School is going co-ed.
The west side landmark will admit girls in the fall of 2005, and will be 'fully co-educational' by 2009, according to the school's long time President, Brother Stanley Culotta.
"It's a sign of changing trends in education," Culotta said. "There were some companion girls schools on the city's west and south sides, but these schools have closed."
He says boys and girls are no longer as interested in single gender education as when the Brothers of the Holy Cross founded the school in the fifties.
He says of the 16 high schools the order operates nationwide, 12 are currently co-ed, although all were started as all boy institutions.
He says the schools commitment to girls is complete.
"This is not a case of trying to fit in the girls in a few empty slots," Culotta said. "Everything will be equal, it will be a full girls high school."
He says the 18 month lead time will allow Holy Cross to construct girls locker rooms, rest rooms, and other appropriate facilities, and also to rebuild the school's curriculum to include items of greater interest to girls.
Culotta stresses that Holy Cross will continue to teach Catholic values. Last year St. Anthony High School admitted girls for the first time in it's history, and the Holy Cross decision will leave Central Catholic as the only remaining major all boys school in San Antonio.
One big plus to the decision...Brother Stanley says for the first time, Holy Cross will have it's own cheerleaders. This year Holy Cross 'borrowed' cheerleaders from Incarnate Word High School.
What does that have to do with anything? PARENTS should be solely in charge of the decision as to what type of schools their children attend.
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Tia
Agree with your assessment and also wonder how many of them are no longer in favor of required courses like chemistry, biology , algebra, trig, etc.
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