[RepubMommy]

Awesome to hear we are plentiful in the South! but you know I heard of the news yesterday that the NYC Dioceseis shtting down sweveral school thereby displacing 3000 Catholic school students. This saddens me and I hope in never happens to our school.

[franky]

The real problem is that these kids will fall between the cracks in the NY Public system.

There was a report by one of the NY papers about how terrible the kids are doing with some schools having 48% droputs. They are complaining now about class size but wait until they get the kids from the Catholic System

[Clemenza]

The problem, mommy is that most of those schools were built in another time. Many of them are either in neighborhoods in Manhattan, which is now largely occupied by secular yuppies who tend not to have children and, if they do, send them to secular private schools that cost alot more money than St. Brigids. Then you have places in the Bronx and Brooklyn that were once thriving sections of industry but are now underpopulated. To add insult to industry many of the Mexicans and Ecuadorians who are pouring into Corona, Jackson Heights, Sunset Park, etc. lack the finances to send their kids to Catholic school.

NYC is effectively a city of the very rich and the very poor, with artsy fartsy types somewhere in between. The lower middle class that supported the parochial schools left a long time ago.

[Coleus]

This saddens me and I hope in never happens to our school.
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It used to sadden me until the schundler election where he lost by 300,000 votes where less than 50% of the catholics voted for him...It opened my eyes on the Catholics in NJ and the USA.

Here was a guy who as not only pro life but also pro school choice and pro vouchers. And did the NJ Catholic Conference issue a voters' guide? NO they didn't, Did the Bishops and nuns and priest come out in support of these ISSUES, NO they did not. Did the majority of Catholics vote for Schundler, NO they did not.

You get for what you vote for, you vote democrat then you get politicians who worship the Teachers' unions and public education. You get politicians who raise taxes on the working class who then can't afford to pay tuition. You get politicians who reduce the standard deductions on Income tax returns and so on.