“Parochial schools are losing students, losing money, losing teachers. Many Catholic schools have closed. Many more may have to.”
Ed Cognoski responds:In somewhat related news, Utah voters sent that state's school vouncher program to a crushing defeat at the polls yesterday. So, Catholic schools shouldn't count on the taxpayers to bail them out of their predicament. Imagine asking taxpayers to fund vouchers to pay for Catholic schools at the same time the Catholic Church is looking for money to pay off the court judgments related to its child sexual abuse scandals. That'll go over well at the polls, I'm sure. The shame is that there are a lot of good teachers in those Catholic schools, doing good work. All screwed up by a paternalistic, authoritarian hierarchy that believes it gets its license to run things dictatorially from Jesus himself.
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