[SuziQ]

John Cardinal O'Connor offered back in the mid 90's to take 1000 of the most underperforming kids off the hands of the public school system in NY. He asked for the city to pay $3,000 for each child in order for that child to attend the Catholic school of the parent's choice. That amount was ONE THIRD of what the city was paying to 'educate' those kids.

The city refused, citing the idea of 'separation of church and state' which was totally bogus. The city wouldn't be subsidizing religion, just a better education than the city was delivering.

Just think, 1000 of those dropouts could possibly have been saved from their lives of ignorance, but for the stupidity and parochialism of the NY City School Board.

[GSlob]

"Just think, 1000 of those dropouts could possibly have been saved from their lives of ignorance,"
They would not be: it is the problem of values/character and culture, and by the time a pupil drops out (it is not elementary school dropouts here) these have pretty well been formed; actually, they start setting much earlier.