formerlyknownas wrote:
Hales has been struggling for decades, and it's probably better that they are closed. The education wasn't very good. Many kids who couldn't cut it at Carmel or Rita went here, and that should tell you something, since Carmel and Rita don't ask too much of their lower level kids (though they can get a great education if they so desire).
Leo is hanging in there. I subbed there a few times. Good kids. The smartest kids there do not match up against the smartest kids elsewhere, but whatever--they're doing good work there. If I had money, I'd donate.
Many other schools are thriving, but with changed numbers. Mount Carmel had 1100 boys in '88; now they have about 700. But, like the other schools, they've adjusted.
What kills me is that the working-class kids who went to Carmel, Laurence, and so forth can no longer attend, since the tuition is outrageously expensive. You can't caddy in the summer and save for your tuition any longer. Shame. Such schools are reaching out all over the area for students; you have kids from the North suburbs going to Mount Carmel.
So some of these schools are thriving, but they're a little different. I guess that's how the world works.
What has helped Mt. Carmel and hurt schools like St. Laurence is alums send their kids to Mt. Carmel if they chose the Catholic high school option. St. Laurence alums tend to send their kids to Marist or Rice if they go catholic.
St. Laurence has tried to tap into the middle/upper middle class black city worker families the last few years and they seem to have stabilized. Something Mt. Carmel has done for decades.
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Frank Coztansa wrote:
conns7901 wrote:
Not over yet.
Yes it is.
CDOM wrote:
When this is all over, which is not going to be for a while, Trump will be re-elected President.
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