5 N.J. Catholic schools to close, including South Jersey football powerhouse

NJ.com ^ | 4/17/2020 | Riley Yates

[usafa92]

Five Catholic schools in southern New Jersey are closing permanently because of financial problems made worse by the coronavirus pandemic, the Diocese of Camden announced Friday.

The schools will be shuttered at the end of the academic year, and include Saint Joseph Regional High School in Hammonton, a south Jersey football powerhouse. Together, they educate 745 students, but have seen their enrollment drop significantly in recent years, making them financially unviable, the diocese said.

“The decision to close these schools is sobering and painful,” the diocese said in a statement posted on its website. “It has not been made lightly.”

The schools also include Wildwood Catholic High School and Cape Trinity Catholic Elementary School, both in Wildwood; Good Shepherd Regional Elementary School in Collingswood; and Saint Joseph Regional Elementary School in Hammonton.

The five schools employ about 100 people and they will all lose their jobs, said Michael Walsh, a spokesman for the diocese.

[usafa92]

Another planned outcome by the Leftists in shutting everything down.

[Vendome]

If this goes 1 to 2 years where do they get their next roster from

Many NCAA will drop and there will be a giant gap

[Wuli]

I wish I just one a giant many million$ lotto prize. Maybe someone could get the school property from the catholic church for a not outrageous price. If so, maybe a new private school could be started, hiring on the teachers that were let go and inviting the parents of the former students to enroll them at the new school.

If I were parents, I would start “group” home schooling, where a bunch of parents get together to home school their kids together. The parents could share & alternate space, teaching duties, resources and finding and deciding on curriculum resources. The sharing could even involve teaching duties on alternate days of the week, and some different parents hosting the classes for different subjects, where some parents have some greater expertise in some subjects.

[alephnull]

I'm not religious but I'm a little unsure how 2 schools in Wildwood are part of the Camden diocese.

[shanover]

If this is not stopped,America will be dead. Anyone care anymore?

[PGR88]

If so, maybe a new private school could be started, hiring on the teachers that were let go and inviting the parents of the former students to enroll them at the new school.

I met a man who did something like that. He rented a closed catholic school building for $1 from the diocese. He started an orthodox/conservative Catholic school, with teachers from local universities who supported what he was doing and volunteered to teach his the first students. So from year one, they had both motivated, self-selected students, and skilled university professors in Philosophy, Latin, Math, Science and history. It looks like they have already created something special. I wished I had children young enough to attend!

https://buffalochestertonacademy.org

[Gay State Conservative]

Excellent news for the Rat Party.There are few things in this world that they hold in more contempt than Catholic schools and Catholic hospitals.

[Mrs. Don-o]

This map of the Diocese of Camden may help.

The Diocese of Camden comprises 475,000 Catholics in 65 parishes in Atlantic, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem Counties. Wildwood NJ is in Cape May County.

[joma89]

I send my kids to Catholic school and I trust my friends and I will keep them financially strong.

JoMa

[fortes fortuna juvat]

More rotten fruit destroyed by the poison that was spread throughout the Church by the Satan Council, i.e., the 2nd Vatican Council (1962-1965).

See, e.g., https://www.olrl.org/misc/jones_stats.shtml.