Now for the serious discussion:
Back to the Archdiocese of Chicago, which is now all the rage nowadays other than New York City. Apparently, the Archdiocese over there has a NEW strategic plan to save The American Catholic School System, or at least the ones in Chicago.
What the skimmed high point of the plan is the "calls for increased funding through a capital campaign to establish a scholarship fund and raise money for capital needs, increased partnership with the Big Shoulders Fund and other organizations and maintaining efforts to capture some public funding for Catholic education" -Catholicnewworld.com
A solution such as that may save them for now, but the question is HOW LONG before there's not enough money to sustain ourselves. Sorry, I doubt this will work in the long run. It is only a matter of time before the Charter Schools start overwhelming us and find out that there's not enough potential donors to close the gap.
Now you may be wondering "Gee Edward, you're being so cruel to the Diocese and Archdiocese of (city of choice). Where is your solution?"
The solution I call for is not one of more schools closing, or even appealing to potential donors, but rather massive changes to the inner self, the cultivation of the human character that I believe all of us has been diluted by the pitfalls of modern society. Once we achieved that, we need to take a stand against the Charters and say "NO! We're not going to accept our inevitable fate, but rather WE struggle and make a stand for what we believe in." We also need to change the way we look at the American Catholic School System, by removing what is unneeded and what is needed, all of this by the people and under the guidance of a leader among them for he/she has experienced life the same way they did.
People, we can do all of this if we are willing to do so. Nothing is impossible, because if there is a will, then there will be a way that shall lead us back to our intended reputation in this nation.
-Lamb
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