Posted on 10/10/2009 11:39:10 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
THE DAY after the Archdiocese of Philadelphia announced plans to close two of the city's storied Catholic high schools - Northeast Catholic and Cardinal Dougherty - livid parents and crestfallen students protested the decision. Hundreds of students from Northeast Catholic, commonly called North Catholic, blew air horns and yelled outside the school last night in exuberant defiance of the archdiocesan decree to close the schools at the end of the school year.
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Don’t worry. They will build a new school in the image of comrade Barack.
Not this type of school. These schools cost a lot of money to keep operating. In the past, I would bet they had a waiting line to get in there and kids, most likely, had to take an entrance exam to get in. The inner city kids can’t afford these schools any longer and the church can’t afford to keep them open. Education isn’t free. You’ll likely see more of them closing down.
A mosque soon to follow. Welkome to the new America “May allah BARAKA be praised”!
Hey, in NYC TAXPAYERS are FUNDING an Islamic school!
No kidding!
This is awful ... - closing of this school.
From the Web site of the new $65,000,000 high school in Royersford: http://www.pjphs.org/node/118
“The tuition for an individual student attending Pope John Paul II High School in 2010-2011 will be one thousand dollars above the basic diocesan high school tuition.”
The catholic church didn’t and has never provided anything past the eighth grade elementary school in Middle Bucks County outside the city. They cared even less about the ‘burbs than the city for decades before today.
Kids abandoned the catholic system and enrolled in public school when the oldest hit ninth grade and would’ve had to go to a not so good HS in lower Bucks. Then the rest of their siblings followed about one every two weeks. Takes awhile for big families.
The school in lower Bucks was Archbishop Wood, separate buildings for boys and girls and not in a great area.
The two famous graduates from that HS are Terry and Michael Schiavo.
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“The Archdiocese said declining enrollments with students in “half-empty” buildings were the reasons Dougherty and North Catholic would be closed.”
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North Catholic, ...
capacity ~ 1,700 students, has 551 enrolled
Dougherty ... c
apacity ~ 2,000 students, has 642 enrolled
The people have spoken. Enrollment is DOWN.
So sad.
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The main reason that was reported for these schools closing is the success of the city’s charter schools, in which parents don’t have to pay — beyond their taxes — to have their children educated, and the kids are not subjected to the horrors of the district-run schools which is why a lot of non-Catholics enrolled at North Catholic and Dougherty.
The lesson to be taken is to eliminate the Philadelphia Public School System and make every school a charter school.
Sad, sad, sad.
The country was so much better when all Catholic kids could go to Catholic schools which their parents could afford.
Alas, those days are gone forever.
Nice new school. Too bad only the very rich can afford it.
Catholic school tuition was free when the kids I’m talking about eagerly left.
Transportation was a $$ problem, they finally got some state aid to help out with that.
Catholic school tuition in lower Bucks was free?Even when I went to Catholic High School in the city we had tuition.When my last kids were going it was up to over 2,000.00 a year.Yes the buses are expensive also.
I didn’t go to any catholic school, my mother did and kept me out of the catholic system.
I don’t think they started asking for tuition until the early ‘70s. They did expect parents to fill the “envelopes” on Sunday. Not sure it was a requirement. That would be backdoor tuition though.
He77, they couldn’t even provide Sunday School for about 3 years when I was a kid. I was in Central Bucks, we rarely ventured to Lower Bucks and didn’t even play football against even the public schools from down there when I was a kid.
The church did not GARA about the county. I can’t even tell you if there was a church between Doylestown and Bethlehem, and I sure don’t remember and football teams.
I know the people from Sell-Perk were assigned to Lansdale Catholic.
Sounds like they didn't care about the church, either.
And how is blowing air horns outside the school supposed to do to pay for half-empty schools?
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