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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 08:00:46 -0600
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- From: Joel Neisen <joel@MSC.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Financing education (was Queens School Board
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- > philosophy, and methods. Moreover, parochial schools reject the hard
- > cases--learning disabled, and other children whose home lives or other
- > factors render them dysfunctional in the more regimented parochial system.
- >
- >How does one answer these charges? Has anyone done any work to prove or
- > disprove the allegation?
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-
- My understanding (3 of my meighbors are publich school teachers) is that
- especially in discipline cases, the principal will recommend to the parents
- that the child be sent to a private school (religious and otherwise)
- where the school staff has more lattitude in discipline than the
- public school systems. Of course, private schools do retain the
- ability to deny an application, whereas the public schools do not.
-
- I don't know exactly what you mean by factors that "render them disfunctional".
- However I was most surprised to learn that several families who have children
- enrolled in our parochial school are too poor to afford Christmas presents
- for their children, and in some cases afford a 'decent' meal for
- Christmas. The area I live in is not generally poor either,
- mainly middle and upper-middle class suburbia.
-
- Have a Merry and Blessed Christmas
-
- joel
-