The Philadelphia Archdiocese announced, yesterday, that the 49 of its schools will be shut forever come June.
The schools are Monsignor Bonner and Archbishop Prendergast high schools in Upper Darby, and elementary schools Annunciation BVM in Haverford Township; St. Cyril of Alexandria in East Lansdowne; Our Lady of Fatima in Secane, Ridley Township; St. Gabriel in Norwood; Holy Savior-St. John Fisher in Lower Chichester; St. Francis de Sales in Aston and St. John Chrysostom in Nether Providence.
Some of their students will go to other Catholic schools. Others will enter the public school system further increasing the tax burden on property owners in those unlucky districts.
Who is to blame? A lot, maybe most, of the parents who send their kids to these Catholic schools are dyed-in-the wool Democrats who’d rather have a toenail ripped out than vote Republican, as are a lot, maybe most, of the teachers at these places. They cannot even begin to get their minds around the fact that their party is the puppet of the PSEA, the union that represents most Pennsylvania public school teachers (and nurses and librarians etc.) and that fights like a rabid badger for every penny of the education budget regardless of who it hurts.
They cannot even start to fathom that their party is the toy of the trial lawyers who get warm and fuzzy at the notion of seeing criminal acts treated as civil torts so their wallets get fatter and who cares if all it does is harm the schools and hospitals and turn the victims into male prostitutes.
Who is to blame? Catholics, look in the mirror.
Who is to blame?
You are painting with a very wide brush! Catholic parents can be blamed simply because they didn’t apply enough pressure on our state legislators, both Democrats and Republicans to approve school vouchers.
Our state solons know the depth of the pockets of the teachers’ unions. They will not kill their golden goose. It will be up to the parents to do that job. They have to put up candidates whose first priority is the education of our children.
Now the parents of many catholic school kids (many of whom are not catholic) will have to send to kids to public schools –many of which are far below average.
Parents in Chester have to send their children to schools in a system that is probably below that of many third world countries.
This is not right. It is not the way to go.
Just a question.I wonder what the impact the mega settlements for the pedaphile priests had on on the Arcdiocese finances?wilmington diocese has or is close to filing banckruptcy because of this.
I think the priest scandal also affected church attendance and unfilled donation baskets. Why the Church turned a blind eye and deaf ear to this problem is beyond me. Why Catholic priests and nuns danced the gig when Obama was elected is also beyond me. They are pro-life yet celebrate an ardent abortion supporter and the Democrats who always put reproduction rights in their platform. Maybe Michael Savage is right. Liberalism is a mental disorder. And maybe the Church’s chickens have come home to roost. What a shame!