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.
We need a voucher system like Holland’s, I hate to say.