OT: St. Anthony's To Close
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St.Peters is a larger school that attracts athletes for multiple sports similar to St.Joseph in Metuchen.St.Anthony was so small it didn't even have a practice gym and its student body was probably in the 120 student range and declining.
I posted this on the football site too-if they are having trouble staying open and Marist (also in Hudson County) is having trouble staying open, why not just merge the schools and sell one of the properties ?
Small Parish HS's are becoming a thing of the past.
Mater Dei came within an eyelash of closing last year.
Cardinal McCarrick closed 2 years ago.
The truth is in Jersey City the Property Value Value Explosion outweighs a school where virtually the entire student body is being subsidized on the dime of the Archdiocese.
As someone who attended a HS where the largest enrollment in my 4 years was 450 students I feel bad for the kids who get caught in this. For me personally there was an enormous value to it.
Mater Dei came within an eyelash of closing last year.
Cardinal McCarrick closed 2 years ago.
The truth is in Jersey City the Property Value Value Explosion outweighs a school where virtually the entire student body is being subsidized on the dime of the Archdiocese.
As someone who attended a HS where the largest enrollment in my 4 years was 450 students I feel bad for the kids who get caught in this. For me personally there was an enormous value to it.
I know the St Anthony story is all about basketball but I do feel bad for those families that want their children in that educational environment. They now have to chose the JC public schools or find another private in the area they can afford.
Bishop Ford closed in Brooklyn in the past 2 years and the K-8 Catholic Schools in the same neighborhood merged because enrollment was too low to support two schools. Part of the problem for these schools are due to improvement in some inner city public schools and the infusion of charter schools.
I don't understand charter schools. if you want your kid to go to a private school, pay for them to go to a private school. Otherwise try to find ways to improve the school system you are in.
Why are my tax dollars getting siphoned to go to pseudo private schools. Then to have people trying to fund raise and want me to donate to a charter schools after they are already siphoning off the tax dollars to the public schools.
I should be able to choose if my tax dollars go to a public school or if a charter school is able to use some of that funding.
Why are my tax dollars getting siphoned to go to pseudo private schools. Then to have people trying to fund raise and want me to donate to a charter schools after they are already siphoning off the tax dollars to the public schools.
I should be able to choose if my tax dollars go to a public school or if a charter school is able to use some of that funding.
Charter schools are Public Schools-------open to anyone to apply to in the District.
People who live in the inner cities are staunch advocates of them.
They do not receive the same dollars per student that the public schools do.
People have gotten fed up with the total failure of the inner city school districts and it's very obvious it isn't about money as these districts get significantly more dollars than their suburban counterparts.
Time to try something else and stop subsidizing failure IMO.
People who live in the inner cities are staunch advocates of them.
They do not receive the same dollars per student that the public schools do.
People have gotten fed up with the total failure of the inner city school districts and it's very obvious it isn't about money as these districts get significantly more dollars than their suburban counterparts.
Time to try something else and stop subsidizing failure IMO.
Most charter schools are disasters (look at newark). They are opened, for the most part, to turn a profit. I have taught in the inner city my entire career (independent school, charter school, and public school). There are positives and negatives to all 3 (as a student and as a teacher).
I have worked in some that do some great things and some that have been disasters. I have seen charter schools that want to do the rights things and I have seen other shut their doors mid year.
RUP
Test scores are published-------the failure of inner city HS Education not just here in NJ but nationally is one the country's great tragedies---------and IMO unfixable.
But this is a basketball board but in a related way do you think it's a coincidence that just about all of the best players in terms of D-1 recruits are not in public schools ?
The AAU guys don't want them there because they know there's too great a risk of them never qualifying .
Test scores are published-------the failure of inner city HS Education not just here in NJ but nationally is one the country's great tragedies---------and IMO unfixable.
But this is a basketball board but in a related way do you think it's a coincidence that just about all of the best players in terms of D-1 recruits are not in public schools ?
The AAU guys don't want them there because they know there's too great a risk of them never qualifying .
Anybody else see this...
Chris Christie calls on pro sports leagues to save St. Anthony's - NY Daily News
https://apple.news/AiEDtRy83MjWTZxB0qYLM3w
Chris Christie calls on pro sports leagues to save St. Anthony's - NY Daily News
https://apple.news/AiEDtRy83MjWTZxB0qYLM3w
Is he worried about Marist closing down? Or Wildwood Catholic? Nope... Only the one with the HOF BBall coach.
