So, just to be certain that I am understanding you correctly, you are withdrawing your children from St. Ephrem's Maronite Catholic School, which provides the students with:
* Daily Mass
* Loyalty to the Holy Father
* Solidly Catholic texts from the past and present
because, in response to their shrinking enrolment, your suggestion that Eucharistic Adoration was the solution, was met with enthusiasm yet not implemented as you would have wanted. I quote:
"I told them that if they didn't do this, the school would not make it."
Pascendi, dear, I am a middle-aged 'baby boomer', educated by the solidly formed catholic nuns of pre-Vatican II. In my 12 years of Catholic School education, NEVER did we attend Daily Mass, much less weekly Adoration of the Eucharist. This was unheard of back then, when the only Catholic liturgy celebrated in the USA (or anywhere else in the world) was the old Latin Mass. NEVER!!!
What we did 'celebrate' on a daily basis, was the crack of a ruler on someone's hands, or the humiliation of being sent to the corner of a room. Friday's were indeed fun when we were taken to church for confession. Some of us made up sins in order to have something to say. Then, knowing that we had 'sinned' by making up the sins, we then had something to say the following Friday. Our classrooms were packed! You are complaining about a school where the TOTAL attendance is 20 students. Our classrooms were packed with 55; that is why Sister had to resort to extreme measures to keep everyone in check. Back then, we had the same Sister for every class throughout the entire year. We were expected to render unto Sister whatever she demanded. In 7th grade, 'Sister" insisted that we use Peacock Blue Ink in our pens and we were graded on penmanship. That nun ran a tight ship! I don't know how old your oldest child is, but let me assure you that by 7th grade, children begin to feel their oats. My 7th grade 'Sister' was truly challenged to teach a room filled with 55 kids whose hormones were bubbling. I was so intimidated by her that I broke out in shingles. The dermatologist had NEVER seen shingles in a 12 year old child. If you have not yet experienced shingles, let me assure you that it is a very painful condition. It is often brought on by stress. In 7th grade, 'Sister' approach to teaching resulted in me being written up by the medical association. Needless to say, her approach to teaching ( or shoud I say, approach to dealing with 55 pre-pubescent teens) was more than intimidating. Having gone through the real experience of raising a teen, I do not fault her. Back then, she did the best she could with what she had.
At St. Ephrem's you have an idyllic situation; yet you have decided to walk away because they will not offer Weeky Eucharistic Adoration. Please tell me in what Catholic School you expect to find such an offering!
You and the other 'traditionalist' thinkers in this forum need to do a 'reality check'. You seem to live in some euphoric world that does not exist.
You claim that St. Ephrem's is a Novus Ordo institution because ???????