[firebrand]

Yes, I was going to mention that Newark is one of the three cities that had to have its schools taken over by Trenton. No improvement, by the way.

Cal, my brother went to Essex Catholic. I thought it was all boys.

Barringer High School was superb back in the day. They still taught the Greek classics when my parents went there. My father can still speak French, learned at Barringer.

[firebrand]

Oh I get it. She went to East Side.

[Calpernia]

If you are correct about Essex Cath being all boys, there must be another catholic school I’m thinking of....It is in the same area too, if I remember correctly.

I didn’t know Newark was taken over by Trenton. I would assume Camden was too, right?

[Clemenza]

Essex Catholic was all boys until the 1970s, when it merged with the girl’s school in East Orange (Sacred Heart?). Eventually, even that school closed about six years ago.