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Thread ID: 16683 | Posts: 8 | Started: 2005-02-09
2005-02-09 23:44 | User Profile
[COLOR=Navy]Living in New York, you'd figure I'd be inured to each new death-rattle of polite society in the name of diversity, but this story hit me with gruesome force. Maybe it's because I live two blocks from one of the closing schools; maybe it's because most of the Catholic schools in the city are located in what still passes for Old Neighborhoods (ie, white strongholds) around here. Enforced 'diversity', to me, was like watching a cloud of dust rising in the far distance for many years - reading this story today was the equivalent of suddenly being able to make out high-relief details in the dust, and hearing - for the first time - the beehive-hum of the approaching clamor. The annoyance of seeing one storefront after another replacing English-lettered signs with Russian characters; of seeing more and more rice bunnies every time I walked out the door; of hearing less and less and less English breing spoken, unless I began talking to myself to cut through the jabber.....all of this was no coincidence, and has now borne inevitable fruit.
Itz coming. And nobody will be spared. Certainly nobody who bothers pointing out that such-and-such a school had existed as an oasis from the hell of public education for nearly 45 years, and the adjacent church had stood for 35 more. And while the diocese may cite "changing demographics", and leave out [I]payoffs to diddled altar-boys [/I] out of the cost-analysis of a Catholic education, there is [I]another [/I] factor that will never ever merit a mention in such "news items": the fact that our Jew-run and [I]untermenschen[/I]-besotted major metropolii have long ago declared war on the White Family via an ever-spiraling cost of living, relentless taxation, and a justice system traimned to first go after the white man defending himself and raising a family, and [I]then [/I] to process the umber-colored parasites, loosed upon Whitey by Our Jewish Betters, through the system.
No [I]wonder [/I] the White Nuclear Family seems like such an anachronism these days, the dwindling buffalo herd of the 21st-century: the only outrage Hymie hasn't yet perpetrated is setting a bid-and-ask price for our pelts. [/COLOR]
[QUOTE][url]http://www.nydailynews.com/boroughs/story/278998p-239054c.html[/url]
[B]Diocese lowers boom [/B]
[I]Reveals school axings today[/I]
BY DEBORAH KOLBEN and ELIZABETH HAYS DAILY NEWS WRITERS
A long-awaited list of Brooklyn and Queens parochial schools slated for closing will be released today - with as many as 25 schools on it - the Daily News has learned.
Frank DeRosa, spokesman for the Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, confirmed that the diocese planned to release today the official list of which schools will not reopen in September because of declining enrollment.
DeRosa refused to say which or how many schools would be affected throughout the diocese, which has 156 elementary schools and 20 high schools in the two boroughs.
"It is a very difficult process that has been gone through by the schools and the diocese," he said.
But sources said the list may have as many as 25 elementary schools.
"The word is it's going to be a bloodbath," said one parent with ties to the diocese yesterday. "Everybody's been on edge. ... Everyone is afraid it could be them."
DeRosa said the schools that are slated to close were notified this week.
Distraught parents at several schools said they received letters yesterday informing them that their child's school would not reopen.
"To me, it feels like a death. I'm mourning," mother Geraldine Lippman said after hearing yesterday that St. Finbar on Bath Ave. in Bath Beach would close its doors at the end of the term.
Lippman, 36, graduated from the school in 1982 and now sends her 4-year-old son there.
"I've been crying all morning," she said. "It was a fear that everyone had but everyone was hoping that we would have been spared."
Almost 100 students in green-and-white uniforms gathered outside St. Finbar yesterday, chanting, "Save our school!"
"This place is like a family," said seventh-grader Frankie Sorrenti.
[B]A letter sent home with students blamed the closure on "declining enrollment caused by the changing demographic of our area" and rising costs[/B].
Parents who got wind of the news earlier in the day started calling around to seek slots in other schools.
"I called four schools today, and they all said, 'No way,'" said Agnes Ptak.
With the many Catholic school closings, parents are worried there will be no place for students to go.
Parents got the same bad news yesterday at Resurrection School on Gerritsen Ave. in Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn, and at St. Virgilius in Broad Channel, Queens.
"We are an island and this school holds this town together. It's just so sad," said Anne Marie Sullivan, whose three children attend St. Virgilius.
"[B]I hate to say it, but if the school closes, then the church is right behind it[/B]," she said, adding that parents raise $80,000 to $100,000 a year for the school each year. "We now have to take our children out of this community to another school."
At St. Thomas Aquinas in Park Slope, teachers received the grim news around noon.
"We try to instill the value of education in the children, but the diocese doesn't feel our school is valuable enough to keep open," one teacher fumed. [/QUOTE]
2005-02-10 01:10 | User Profile
Growing up in NYC, I feel such loss over hearing about these closings, since I'm a product of those NYC Catholic schools (12 years total). The Roman Catholic schools built this city, and although I'm Protestant now, the loss of these schools and churches is just another sure sign of this crumbling city's current downfall. I don't know if too many folks could've foreseen this type of destruction 25-30 years ago, when so many NYC neighborhoods were still dominated by Irish, Italian, Polish, German, et al, families. Going back further, 40-50 years ago, I'm sure this current scenario would've been unthinkable.
This used to be such a great city, full of community. Seems like another world today. Now I say, feed it to the dogs.
2005-02-10 08:30 | User Profile
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DeRosa refused to say which or how many schools would be affected throughout the diocese, which has 156 elementary schools and 20 high schools in the two boroughs.
[/QUOTE]Good God. Those are mind boggling numbers. In approximate terms: What is the population of the two boroughs? What percentage of children go to either Parochial or private schools in general?
2005-02-10 09:25 | User Profile
[QUOTE]Good God. Those are mind boggling numbers. In approximate terms: What is the population of the two boroughs? [/QUOTE]
Close to six million people, so it's not [I]that [/I] outlandish.
2005-02-10 16:56 | User Profile
I lived in the Glendale section of Queens, N.Y. for ten years (I moved to NJ twenty years ago). It was a German/Irish/Italian neighborhood, and it was one of the nicest ones in the area. I went to Catholic grammar school there. Last I had heard, the school I went to was half-closed, meaning only one side of the school was open and running. This was a number of years ago. Glendale still has a considerably White population there, compared to other areas, but the NY metro area is not what it used to be.
2005-02-10 17:00 | User Profile
[quote=il ragno]Enforced 'diversity', to me, was like watching a cloud of dust rising in the far distance for many years - reading this story today was the equivalent of suddenly being able to make out high-relief details in the dust, and hearing - for the first time - the beehive-hum of the approaching clamor.
Yep. I'm starting to see the spear-points. And the teeth. That hum might be the bongo-drum rap beat. The Revolution will not only be televised, it's gonna have a P Diddy soundtrack.
The annoyance of seeing one storefront after another replacing English-lettered signs with Russian characters; of seeing more and more rice bunnies every time I walked out the door; of hearing less and less and less English breing spoken, unless I began talking to myself to cut through the jabber.....
Used as de facto evidence that you're the one who's crazy.
Itz coming. And nobody will be spared. Certainly nobody who bothers pointing out that such-and-such a school had existed as an oasis from the hell of public education for nearly 45 years, and the adjacent church had stood for 35 more. And while the diocese may cite "changing demographics", and leave out payoffs to diddled altar-boys out of the cost-analysis of a Catholic education, there is another factor that will never ever merit a mention in such "news items": the fact that our Jew-run and untermenschen-besotted major metropolii have long ago declared war on the White Family via an ever-spiraling cost of living, relentless taxation, and a justice system traimned to first go after the white man defending himself and raising a family, and then to process the umber-colored parasites, loosed upon Whitey by Our Jewish Betters, through the system.
How long can the sheep be sheared before they give up and die, or fight back? When no one is left but parasites, then who pays the bills? Or will cannibalism be added to the FDA-approved methods of getting the USRDA of protein?
No wonder the White Nuclear Family seems like such an anachronism these days, the dwindling buffalo herd of the 21st-century: the only outrage Hymie hasn't yet perpetrated is setting a bid-and-ask price for our pelts.
"120 million pelts, at $16 per, minus $3 for the schvartzes leaves..."
Ka-ching!
2005-02-11 08:28 | User Profile
[QUOTE=il ragno]Close to six million people, so it's not that outlandish.[/QUOTE]Okay. I suppose that's not too off-kilter. Here in Albuquerque, which is predominately Catholic, there's one high school and 10 elementary schools for a population of around 500,000. So, at a 12-1 clip, that's in the same ballpark.
2005-02-13 03:46 | User Profile
The Catholic Church today seems to care more about wet-backs, sodomite with aids, savages, drunks, and street people than they do children. They should spend thier money on schools and children not human garbage.