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Urban Catholic schools facing a decline
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Growing up, I remember hearing my own mother's stories of attending Catholic school. The uniforms, the Nuns...it was all apart of her educational life.
Many urban children these days aren't attending Catholic schools, and enrollment is dropping. Reasons for the drop in enrollment varies, but part of them are declining birth rates, moves from urban areas to suburbs and rising tuition.
In 1970,. the Archdiocese of Boston had 211 elementary schools in 1970; the number is 103 today.
Sadly, the problem is that when enrollment numbers drop, the cost per student goes up and so does tuition. Honestlly, I can't think of anyone I know that attends or sends their children to Catholic schools. Most of the children I know who attend private school attend secular ones.
Basically, they need to be more competitive with public or other private schools, which might be hard considering the monetary issues. Are Catholic schools dying in your area? What do you think they could do to revamp their system?
Many urban children these days aren't attending Catholic schools, and enrollment is dropping. Reasons for the drop in enrollment varies, but part of them are declining birth rates, moves from urban areas to suburbs and rising tuition.
In 1970,. the Archdiocese of Boston had 211 elementary schools in 1970; the number is 103 today.
Sadly, the problem is that when enrollment numbers drop, the cost per student goes up and so does tuition. Honestlly, I can't think of anyone I know that attends or sends their children to Catholic schools. Most of the children I know who attend private school attend secular ones.
Basically, they need to be more competitive with public or other private schools, which might be hard considering the monetary issues. Are Catholic schools dying in your area? What do you think they could do to revamp their system?
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3-10-2007 @ 12:24PM
Christine said...Unless the private Catholic schools in the States are better than the publically funded ones in Ontario (which is a very real possibility), I think that one problem might be with the schools themselves. I went to a Catholic school for K-8, and in my 10 years there I learnt less about my faith than I did in my 4 years in the public board for high school.
We went to monthly mass, and had religion class, but there was really nothing to set the school apart in values from the public board, and there was nothing to compare to. Sacraments and going to mass were things that parents and teachers made you do, so no one had any intested in doing them, or in learning about them. If I have kids I fully intend to send them to public schools to ensure that they get a chance to develop fully in their faith.
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