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With the prospect of having to close 14 more Catholic schools within the Diocese of Brooklyn on top of the 32 they have already shut down since 2005, Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio has turned to the city in an attempt to secularize at least four of them into public charter schools. At a press conference alongside DiMarzio, Mayor Bloomberg said about the potentially closing schools, “Many if not most of the students would be likely to seek admission in Brooklyn and Queens public schools that are already at or near capacity, which gives us all a shared interest in finding innovative ways to keep these school doors open.” The mayor says that he supports any legislation needed to make it happen since such a conversion would currently be prohibited by statewide regulations. A similar plan was enacted in Washington DC where seven parochial schools have been converted into charter schools. Catholic schools throughout the five boroughs have been closing in rapid succession with enrollment declines over the last few years.
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Being a graduate of Monsignor Farrell High School, I find the Catholic Archdiocese of NY not supporting the Catholic High Schools is the city any more to be very troubling. Msgr. Farrell is very difficult to get into, but it's a bargain if you are selected to attend because of the Archdiocese support. The quality of education is amongst the best in the nation. Msgr. Farrell prices will become like a private academy being on it's own. I am very upset with Cardinal Egan and the decision he has made recently not to support the Catholic HS in the city.
I was awarded an Archdiocese of NY scholarship to attend HS. Will those disappear too?
Smart move by Bloomberg. Buck for buck, Catholic schools provide the best education.
98% of the HS students graduate, and about 90% go on to college. Many of these are Inner City kids who would otherwise be going to some Blackboard Jungle.
For example, take commenter #1, who seemingly went to public school, and can't distinguish between, or spell correctly, the two homophones "altar" and "alter".
The only connection between the Catholic school and the charter schools that replace them will be the physical space -minus the religious iconography. The city will rent the space and put in its own charter schools. The new schools will likely not hire the Catholic school teachers because many of them are not licensed to teach in city schools.
It would be helpful if female charter school students were required to continue wearing catholic schoolgirl uniforms.
Catholic schools suck. They're more interested in churning out good Catholics rather than providing their students with the best possible education and preparing them for college/the real world.
As opposed to all those semi-literate burger flippers and welfare queens the public schools like churn out? The UFT's main function is to churn out mindless, democrat-voting drones.
Last time I checked, there were a number of public NYC high schools that ranked in the top 100 for the nation. Either way, there's nothing nothing inherently wrong with public schooling. Public schools can be reformed and made better, but Catholic schools will never change.
>>>I always wash my hands immediately after shaking hands with clergy. You never know which alter [sic] boy [sic] penis it's been on.
Well, that didn't take long.
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QM - You absolutely wrong. Students will learn more in one year of Catholic school than students in public schools learn in three. Catholic schools teach their students how to think.
Yea, you'll learn about how you can't trust contraceptives and that you should remain abstinent until you marry. And how intelligent design is a legitimate theory for the creation of the universe. Catholic schools are a joke as far as I'm concerned.
Name one Catholic school, just one, that teaches intelligent design. Or are you just parroting the hate?
Furthermore, to name just one example, I would say 100 or so students of Regis proportionately score as high as anyone from Stuyvesant or Bronx HS. (e.g. 1300 applied this year, 35 got accepted)
QM - You're a douche. The catholic church rejects intelligent design as pseudo science. The institution that burned Giordanno Bruno at the stake changed a lot on the last 600 years. But you wouldn't know, being a fucking Richard-Dawkins all-religion-is-bad sack of shit. In your little world the catholic church and the southern baptists are one and the same - all believing a jay-sus and burning crosses in the lawns of black people. Who's bigoted?
You two don't know what you're talking about. I just double checked with my girlfriend (shes graduating from st Francis prep this year) to make sure I'm not making an ass of myself. She says while they never outright taught creationism/intelligent design, teachers were forbidden to teach the big bang theory and evolution.
I love how neither of you even bothered to address the topic of contraception. Because you both know I'm right. Bottom line is that catholic schools don't teach anything that goes against what the Vatican preaches. Which means their students receive a sub-par education.
QM, I went to Catholic School. I was taught evolution and the Big Bang, and nothing else.
If the contraception issue is your only problem with Catholic schools, you have little to worry about in life. Wait till real problems arise. And you don't pay for the education, so don't worry about what others do. I guarantee you there are a lot fewer pregnant Catholic school girls, than public school girls.
As far as contraception, who needs to be taught how to use a condom?
Meanwhile, over the past 150 years, Catholics have saved taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. Address that and stop worrying what I do with my dick.
I don't care what you do with your dick. The point is that Catholic school students receive sub par educations. And part of that sub par education is not learning about safe sex. And like i said before. My girlfriend, who is currently enrolled in the largest catholic high school in the nation, was not taught the big bang theory or evolution.
And no shit there's less pregnant girls in Catholic schools, they get expelled as soon as the administration find out they're knocked up. Abortions are commonplace at catholic schools.
QM, you turd.
The Big Bang theory was proposed initially by a gentlemen called George Lemaitre WHO WAS A CATHOLIC PRIEST AND PHYSICS PROFESSOR AT A CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY IN BELGIUM.
Yes, you ARE making a fool of yourself. Just Google his name and go masturbate with a chainsaw or something, dickhead.
And on the topic of contraception, actually the Catholic schools teach very valuable lessons that public schooling fail to address because they are too busy teaching 12 year old girls and boys about how to give the perfect blowjob.
The lessons are:
For girls: KEEP YOUR FUCKING KNEES TOGETHER
For boys: DON'T THINK WITH YOUR FUCKING DICK
You don't seem to be getting this, so I'm going to make it as clear as I can.
Modern day catholic schools do not teach anything that goes against what the Vatican preaches. That means that students currently enrolled in Catholic schools do not learn about safe sex, evolution, and the big bang theory. Despite the fact that a Catholic came up with the theory in the first place.
What's happened to all the money the Papacy's been hoarding for centuries? What are they doing with all the dough? (eucharist joke)
But really, the top tier public schools in the city are a few notches above the best Catholic schools--without the religious bullshit--and even above the private schools, the Daltons of the city. The problem with most public schools is that they have to accept the worst of the worst, the neighborhood idiots, criminals, and losers. And in some neighborhood that is all you get. Populate them in Catholic schools and you'll see.
What's happened to all the money the Papacy's been hoarding for centuries?
Legal defense and settlements in abuse cases, I'd wager.
catholic schools may churn out smarter students in the old days but have you seen their demographics now?
any westinghouse/intel science awards? sure you'll get your star athlete who barely passed his SAT's to get into the univ that recruited him.
Yeah, they gone downhill recently. I rarely hear anyone talk about trying to enroll their kid in a catholic school anymore.