If we want anything worth having, we have to do it ourselves. Either homeschool or create parent-controlled academies (Catholic or interdenominational) that teach high quality academics, morality, theology specific or general, first rate history courses, with all extracurriculars and sports strictly secondary. Keep tuition as reasonable as possible and remember that education is primarily: God, students, texts and teachers. Raise a generation of leaders to lead those unfortunates who can only be led.
Good post. In addition to discipline I would add the ability to pray and regular school mass. There is an effort however to limit the masses offered to students out of deference to those students who attend but are not Catholic and might be offended. You hit on something important which is the number of lay people as administrators in Catholic Schools, historically when this happens Catholic Schools become prep schools only interested in accumulating many dollars to pay teachers and build new buildings.