The updated statement reads much more clearly like a (financial/enrollment) turf war between parochial schools and homeschooling, with a gloss of the good Cardinal assuming that families where parochial religious ed isn’t working aren’t good faith community members.
The updated statement reads much more clearly like a (financial/enrollment) turf war between parochial schools and homeschooling, with a gloss of the good Cardinal assuming that families where parochial religious ed isn’t working aren’t good faith community members.
I am curious about that - I wonder if the diocese considers charter schools or non-Catholic private schools to be less of a competitor? Where I live, many empty Catholic schools are rented out to other private or charter schools or in some cases even regular public schools that have to temporarily vacate their building for whatever reason.
I'm more wondering about why the diocese considers homeschooling to be competition, rather than cooperation. The goal is to get children educated and formed well, particularly in the Catholic Faith, not to make tuition money. It's the non-Catholic and public schools that are in opposition to that.
There are a lot of homeschoolers that would be perfectly fine with a hybrid solution, where their kids do some things (like sports, or maybe a class the parents are weak on) in a conventional school. As a general rule, (there are exceptions) this is denied. Colleges don't refuse to let people take classes by ones and twos, it's children's schools that want full control.
The updated statement reads much more clearly like a (financial/enrollment) turf war between parochial schools and homeschooling, with a gloss of the good Cardinal assuming that families where parochial religious ed isn’t working aren’t good faith community members.
Particularly since non-Catholic educational groups are allowed, with approval and payment.
I am curious about that - I wonder if the diocese considers charter schools or non-Catholic private schools to be less of a competitor? Where I live, many empty Catholic schools are rented out to other private or charter schools or in some cases even regular public schools that have to temporarily vacate their building for whatever reason.
I'm more wondering about why the diocese considers homeschooling to be competition, rather than cooperation. The goal is to get children educated and formed well, particularly in the Catholic Faith, not to make tuition money. It's the non-Catholic and public schools that are in opposition to that.
There are a lot of homeschoolers that would be perfectly fine with a hybrid solution, where their kids do some things (like sports, or maybe a class the parents are weak on) in a conventional school. As a general rule, (there are exceptions) this is denied. Colleges don't refuse to let people take classes by ones and twos, it's children's schools that want full control.