[wintertime]

For over a century Catholics in particular have been agitating for/whining about getting voucher funds from the government, on the grounds that parochial schoolkids' parents have already paid for public education systems and are now paying again for a real education.

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The tuition at my alma mater, St. Joan of Arc in Philadelphia, was a mere $2,383 for the 2002/2003 year.

This is less than the cost of babysitting. If the Catholic parents had a rebate of the taxes they paid toward promoting the religion of secular humanism in the government schools, that rebate would have more than paid St. Joan of Arc's tuition.

[WriteOn]

This probably belongs on a different thread, but how Catholic is your Catholic school? No nuns? lots of protestant teachers? Teaching from secular texts? How much better is that?

[spinestein]

[The tuition at my alma mater, St. Joan of Arc in Philadelphia, was a mere $2,383 for the 2002/2003 year.]




The tuition at my alma mater, St. Joan of Arc near Chicago, was even less in the early 80's at around $900/year.

I remember it as being NOT like the stereotype of severe nuns hitting kids with yardsticks for every minor infraction. I recall what comedian George Carlin said about his experience in a progressive Catholic school; because they made questioners out of them, they lost their faith.