Private Schools In Trouble?

Being a person whom was educated in private schools, this is kind of scary. I attended private school from 1st grade all the way through high school. It has been stated by some that you can get a better education in private school over public. I don’t totally agree with this. You get learn "values" in private school, but public school has more opportunity and more programs available to students.

The challenge facing Catholic elementary schools can be reduced to one
stunning fact: There are more nuns over 90 years old than under 50
years old.

This is a problem not just with nuns, but with priests too. The whole church is getting old and doesn’t really want to modernize. Maybe allow married people to work more in the church? Nuns work for the private schools for free. Most of them do it for the love of teaching. I had a few wonderful nuns that taught me. I consider them to be the best teachers I have had.

Since the schools have to pay for teachers, they are loosing
funding. Not all families can afford to tuition that these schools
provide. On top of the tuition, those same families are also paying
taxes that fund the public schools.

That’s key if Catholic schools are going to continue to find parents
willing to pay higher tuition to give their children a better
education, said Boston College’s O’Keefe.

No
kidding, but the cost of everything is too much. The government can’t
really get involved because they would have the whole separation from
church and state debate going on. Obviously Bush doesn’t care. It seems
like he is trying to put Bible’s into everyones home.

I thought that private elementary school was more beneficial to me
then high school. I think high school was a joke. If I would have gone
to a public high school, I probably would have had a better idea on
what I wanted to do as a career and probably would have gone onto
college right after high school. Anyway, enough with me. Read the story
at MSNBC.