Parents to purchase New Hampshire Catholic school from religious order

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Parents to purchase New Hampshire Catholic school from religious order

Goffstown, NH, Apr 25, 2008 / 04:18 am (CNA).- A Catholic religious order has announced that it will sell one of its New Hampshire primary schools to a group of parents to ensure continuing support for Catholic education, the Union Leader reports. Five months ago, the order called Religious of Jesus and Mary told parents that they could no longer support the 90-year-old Villa Augustina school in Goffstown. The closure of the K-8 school was considered almost certain.
However, in the intervening months enterprising parents raised $400,000 for repairs to the school and another $120,000 for its purchase.
Sister Janet Stolba, the U.S. provincial for the Religious of Jesus and Mary, along with the order’s governing council in Rome, approved the sale after parents submitted a five-year plan for the school’s future. News of the order’s general government approving the decision arrived on Monday.
Sr. Stolba praised the parents for their commitment to Catholic education, saying they were an inspiration to the order.

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[stbruno]

All I can say is good luck to them. It’s innovative.

 

[peregrinus_WA]

I think you are going to see this more and more. Parents do not want to send their children to the public school system which are quickly becoming Secular Relativist Indoctrination Camps.

 

[CapIV]

sounds nice. I don’t blame people for not wanting to go to public school.

 

[rien]

All I can say is good luck to them. It’s innovative.

This seems like an 'emergency" situation. There is a new order of teaching nuns out of Micigan. I forget the name right now. Many vocations. Perhaps the parents should get in touch with them - for maybe a sister or two. Or the Dominican Nashville’s. As RJN calls them “the Dixie chicks”. With all due respect I am sure.

I think these few new orthodox teaching orders that are getting vocations need to target their teaching sisters to the most needy schools. Those on verge of closure.

I still can’t think of the Michigan’s order’s name. Mary Assumpta is the founder I think. All I can recall.

Again, rather than send teaching sisters to established schols not in threat of closure, I think these new orders should be a niche for supporting Catholic schools in threat of closure.

 

[Dale_M]

A 2006 study indicated that 339 Catholic schools closed during the previous five years.

School leaders cited the overall operation of the school as their biggest challenge, especially the costs of health care and employee benefits and the costs to maintain facilities.

the-tidings.com/2006/0818/cara.htm
Using teaching sisters might help keep the costs down, if they were willing to work for below market wages. But how many such sisters are there?