Catholic Dads

More Catholics in Catholic Schools?

August 7th, 2007

H/T to Curt Jester – Australia’s Cardinal Pell says Catholic Schools should:

“re-examine how they might maximise enrolment of Catholic students”.

Also, they should:

increase the proportion of school staff who are “practising and knowledgeable Catholics”.

The general trend here in the southeastern USA, of course, is that Catholic schools are becoming more and more elitist as the tuition keeps going up. Whereas it used to be a community that was mostly Catholic, living in neighborhoods together, going to Church together, and going to school together, now it’s much more scattered – people come together at the school from all over the place, and there are Catholic and non-Catholic students (nothing wrong with this, but it’s ironic that my local parish school is 55% Catholic.

Meanwhile, Catholics who are committed to Church teachings on the family can’t afford to send their kids for $3000 or more per year (per student.) There are places in the plains states where it’s much more affordable, but not where I live. Homeschooling, here we come!

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