I have some information from an very credible source which is not yet confirmed. The general sense is:
[Hold on to your hat. I just got a call from a headmaster of a private Catholic academy in New Jersey who wants his school to be part of the mix when it comes time to "farm out."]
Can anyone second this information?
Monday, January 14, 2008
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Please forgive me and my parochial attitude, but now we're up to 2 Catholic schools. Are they trying to make a habit out of this? I must confess that my dear friend Sally said the kids could learn in a field.
Approve...Reject...Approve...Reject...I appreciate the mental workout jon provides with each comment.
The problem with farming students to private and/or parochial schools is manifold.
1.) There is the issue of using public dollars to fund a parochial education.
2.) How will non-Christian families feel about educating their children in a school that has "religion classes" as a requirement (Maybe this isn't the case at these named schools...)
3.) These schools have admission requirements. Can public education really be legally exclusive?
4.) These schools do not have the infrastructure or support for special education. Students with an IEP will be left behind. (We will farm out all of our bright kids and then be left with the expense of the special needs kids!!)
5.) These schools have a choice in accepting students, and can, at any time, for any reason, expell them (no legal requirement for due process). What then happens to these kids? Where do they go?
6.) What if my Morrisville child is already attending Conwell, Notre Dame, Villa Victoria, McCorristin? I have un-enrolled them from Morrisville (thus relieving the district of the cost of educating my student) and paying tuition myself. NOW, however, I can re-enroll them, make Morrisville pay for my tuition, and save myself beau coups bucks! (Plus, Morrisville will have to pay for transportation AND will loose their State subsidy, since the child is unenrolled from the district.)
Has common sense taken a vacation???
Has common sense taken a vacation???
I see what you're up to, Borows. I applied DaVinci Code principles to unscramble that sentence to:
VATICAN MAN COMES SOON TAKE SHANE
Now my question to you is, who's Shane?
Hey don't for get what will happen when word gets out that Morrisville is paying for private school tuition. I don't think we will be talking about 350 students anymore.
LOL Jon.
You have WAY too much time on your hands.
Shane = Alan Ladd
Shane (1953)....."Simple peaceful lifestyles threatened by land grabbing ranchers and sinister gunslinger, saved by a weary reluctant gunslinger."
I knew all along this was about a land grab!!! And trying to stop the simple peaceful people that want to preserve Morrisville as it was in 1953. See how it all fits together?
The strangest part is how little time it actually takes me......
But seriously folks...
I asked the administration if they had been asked to contact and schools in NJ and they said they had not be asked nor had they done so. That does not preclude the possibility that a Catholic school in NJ contacted the district on its own, as did an alternative school in our area. I'll share that info when I can.
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