“The Archdiocese of Philadelphia is planning to close 49 schools, and thousands are feeling the pain. Michael Wetzel, a veteran English teacher at Monsignor Bonner and Archbishop Prendergast High Schools in Drexel Hill, told The Inquirer that the news of their closing was “tantamount to a death.”
I sympathize with Wetzel. I graduated from Monsignor Bonner in 1990, and I understand his sense of loss. Students will be uprooted, and teachers will be out of jobs. . . .”
This is an excerpt from my commentary in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer, “Schools’ decline echoes values.” Please click here to read the entire article. You can respond or provide feedback by clicking on the comment button below.
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–Christopher Paslay
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