The Super-Duper Religious Mexicans Seem To Avoid Catholic Schools.

[Vindicator]

As Catholic Schools Close in Major Cities, the Need Only Grows
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Over the last half-century, the number of Catholic schools has fallen to 7,000 from about 13,000, and their enrollment to barely two million children from more than five million. A disproportionate share of the damage has come in big cities.

“It’s unbelievable that you have a school that graduates 100 percent of the kids and sends them to college and shuts the door,” said Skip Branch, a basketball coach at the school. His own son, Floyd, graduated from Rice in 2002 and went on to Middlebury College with a full academic scholarship.

However belatedly, parts of Catholic clergy and laity have tried to develop new models. The Nativity Miguel and Cristo Rey networks have opened dozens of small, academically intensive middle and high schools. The Big Shoulders Fund in Chicago provides Catholic schools there with scholarship money, in-kind services like construction, and ties to arts organizations, among other benefits. Arizona gives a tax credit to individuals who donate money for tuition assistance through state-certified groups, including one funneling such aid to Catholic-school families.

None of these efforts, promising and idealistic as they may be, have come close to halting, much less reversing, the pattern of retrenchment. While 34 new Catholic schools opened in the 2010-11 academic year, 172 closed or were consolidated, and nearly 2,000 had a waiting list for admission, according to data from the National Catholic Educational Association. The 24 Cristo Rey high schools together have 6,500 pupils — only a couple of hundred more than Philadelphia’s Cardinal Dougherty High alone had at its height in the 1960s.

To put it in personal terms, when Michael Gecan was growing up on the West Side of Chicago in the 1950s and 1960s, the area had 10 parish schools enrolling about 10,000 students in total. These days, when he returns there as a national organizer for the Industrial Areas Foundation, he finds seven or eight much smaller schools with a collective student population of about 1,000.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/04/us/04religion.html?_r=1&hpw

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When will somebody start pointing out the truth about this. The super-duper Mexicanos have ruined the Archdiocese of the major cities in the US. They'll only show up when they need the Church to advocate for illegal aliens or to force "leave our gangbangers alone" legislation on communities.

 

[Truthseeker420]

I heard this on the John Tesh radio " Mexicians are the happiest people in the world because of their faith". Really? i find that hard to belive.

 

[Vindicator]

I heard this on the John Tesh radio " Mexicians are the happiest people in the world because of their faith". Really? i find that hard to belive.

Faith that US politicians will betray Americans and give Mexicans anything they want.

 

[chanel]

Besides the cost of tuition, many Hispanics do not send their kids to Catholic school because they have to speak English. Oh the horror!

The clergy scandal has done irreparable harm to Catholic education. It's hard to gain back that trust.

We saved our local Catholic high school from closing, but it's still on life support. I'm not sure if it will be operating in ten years from now - especially if the economy does not improve.

 

[uscitizen]

I guess the fear of pedo priests has finally caught up with them?

 

[Sarah G]

As Catholic Schools Close in Major Cities, the Need Only Grows
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Over the last half-century, the number of Catholic schools has fallen to 7,000 from about 13,000, and their enrollment to barely two million children from more than five million. A disproportionate share of the damage has come in big cities.

“It’s unbelievable that you have a school that graduates 100 percent of the kids and sends them to college and shuts the door,” said Skip Branch, a basketball coach at the school. His own son, Floyd, graduated from Rice in 2002 and went on to Middlebury College with a full academic scholarship.

However belatedly, parts of Catholic clergy and laity have tried to develop new models. The Nativity Miguel and Cristo Rey networks have opened dozens of small, academically intensive middle and high schools. The Big Shoulders Fund in Chicago provides Catholic schools there with scholarship money, in-kind services like construction, and ties to arts organizations, among other benefits. Arizona gives a tax credit to individuals who donate money for tuition assistance through state-certified groups, including one funneling such aid to Catholic-school families.

None of these efforts, promising and idealistic as they may be, have come close to halting, much less reversing, the pattern of retrenchment. While 34 new Catholic schools opened in the 2010-11 academic year, 172 closed or were consolidated, and nearly 2,000 had a waiting list for admission, according to data from the National Catholic Educational Association. The 24 Cristo Rey high schools together have 6,500 pupils — only a couple of hundred more than Philadelphia’s Cardinal Dougherty High alone had at its height in the 1960s.

To put it in personal terms, when Michael Gecan was growing up on the West Side of Chicago in the 1950s and 1960s, the area had 10 parish schools enrolling about 10,000 students in total. These days, when he returns there as a national organizer for the Industrial Areas Foundation, he finds seven or eight much smaller schools with a collective student population of about 1,000.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/04/us/04religion.html?_r=1&hpw

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When will somebody start pointing out the truth about this. The super-duper Mexicanos have ruined the Archdiocese of the major cities in the US. They'll only show up when they need the Church to advocate for illegal aliens or to force "leave our gangbangers alone" legislation on communities.

If you're here representing for Catholics, I can see why.

 

[Vindicator]

Besides the cost of tuition, many Hispanics do not send their kids to Catholic school because they have to speak English. Oh the horror!

The clergy scandal has done irreparable harm to Catholic education. It's hard to gain back that trust.

We saved our local Catholic high school from closing, but it's still on life support. I'm not sure if it will be operating in ten years from now - especially if the economy does not improve.

The amasing thing is that Catholic school cost just a fraction of what public schools claim as their operating expenses per child. Over here it's $12,500/ elementary student/ yr for public schools yet some Catholic schools charge maybe $3,500/ yr and give discounts on additional children.

Makes you wonder who pockets the rest in public schools.

 

[Vindicator]

As Catholic Schools Close in Major Cities, the Need Only Grows​

Over the last half-century, the number of Catholic schools has fallen to 7,000 from about 13,000, and their enrollment to barely two million children from more than five million. A disproportionate share of the damage has come in big cities.

To put it in personal terms, when Michael Gecan was growing up on the West Side of Chicago in the 1950s and 1960s, the area had 10 parish schools enrolling about 10,000 students in total. These days, when he returns there as a national organizer for the Industrial Areas Foundation, he finds seven or eight much smaller schools with a collective student population of about 1,000.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/04/us/04religion.html?_r=1&hpw

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When will somebody start pointing out the truth about this. The super-duper Mexicanos have ruined the Archdiocese of the major cities in the US. They'll only show up when they need the Church to advocate for illegal aliens or to force "leave our gangbangers alone" legislation on communities.

If you're here representing for Catholics, I can see why.

Whatever happened to "Equal Protection Under The Lord!"

 

[uscitizen]

Besides the cost of tuition, many Hispanics do not send their kids to Catholic school because they have to speak English. Oh the horror!

The clergy scandal has done irreparable harm to Catholic education. It's hard to gain back that trust.

We saved our local Catholic high school from closing, but it's still on life support. I'm not sure if it will be operating in ten years from now - especially if the economy does not improve.

The amasing thing is that Catholic school cost just a fraction of what public schools claim as their operating expenses per child. Over here it's $12,500/ elementary student/ yr for public schools yet some Catholic schools charge maybe $3,500/ yr and give discounts on additional children.

Makes you wonder who pockets the rest in public schools.

Catholic schools get all their operating money from tuition?

 

[syrenn]

Besides the cost of tuition, many Hispanics do not send their kids to Catholic school because they have to speak English. Oh the horror!

The clergy scandal has done irreparable harm to Catholic education. It's hard to gain back that trust.

We saved our local Catholic high school from closing, but it's still on life support. I'm not sure if it will be operating in ten years from now - especially if the economy does not improve.

The amasing thing is that Catholic school cost just a fraction of what public schools claim as their operating expenses per child. Over here it's $12,500/ elementary student/ yr for public schools yet some Catholic schools charge maybe $3,500/ yr and give discounts on additional children.

Makes you wonder who pockets the rest in public schools.

Catholic schools are not union driven.

 

[chanel]

I teach in a public school but sent my kids to Catholic school. The simple answer to your question is state mandates - namely special education. In fact, in NJ local districts must provide special education services in private schools. The taxpayers pick up the tab.

Teacher salaries and benefits account for a large chunk as well, however our Catholic schools are unionized and their health benefits are comparable.

 

[Vindicator]

I teach in a public school but sent my kids to Catholic school. .

That gives me even more confidence in the public education system.

 

[Harry Dresden]

If you're here representing for Catholics, I can see why.

this jerk is in his fourth reincarnation Sarah.....he has been banned 3 times in the last 2-3 months.....Bullfighter/Lost American/Lucky Strike......now this one.....you would think he would be smart enough to alter his posting style ......it wont be long till he is gone again.....then we can wait and see who he comes up with next......