If you're paying to send your teenager to Catholic school, what do you do when the school decides to go "un-Catholic?" Parents of students at the Northern Virginia Notre Dame Academy have been notified that the private school will cease following the rules of the Arlington County archdiocese in an effort to make the school more financially viable.
But parents who paid tuition so their kids could go to Catholic school are mad - and not just the Catholic ones.
The changes won't go into affect this year, so parents will have the opportunity to yank their kids before they go into affect effect. Still, some parents on both sides of the religious fence say they've been sold a bill of goods. They enrolled their kids thinking they would be sending them to a Catholic school for their entire high school careers.
I wonder how much weight the school board's supposition that it will fare better without the weight of diocesan rules really holds. If half the student body is already non-Catholic, it wouldn't seem their papal patronage is really putting that much of a hurting on the ability to attract tution-paying parents. The fact that there are non-Catholic parents decrying the change would seem to support that school of thought.
Private schools are private businesses. Their bottom line is to stay open - and they can't depend on taxes to do it. So should parents just be thankful the school is still there?
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