New Catholic Schools
There are three projects that the PJStar reports the Catholic Diocese is looking into.
1. Adding a grade school to St. Jude Parish, out north. I can’t speak to this. With all the expansion out north, I would imagine a school is needed and who wants to drive all the way into town to go to St. Vincent?
2. The High School. I like how they talk about the aging and troubled Notre Dame school building. Ironically, that’s why Spalding Academy was closed, to move up the modern Bergan building. 17 years later and it’s “aging” and has “building issues”. Code for: WE’RE OUTTA HERE!
3. St. Mark Grade School tearing down it’s school and rebuilding in the exact same location. I’m not one to advocate taking of land, but with the acquisition of some not so significant properties (probably already owned by Bradley), St. Mark could greatly expand. Simply giving the school a full size gym and a separate lunch room would increase it’s footprint on their tiny lot with a tiny playground and no parking.
Should be fun to watch, whatever they decide. Give them credit for this much- At least they aren’t pretending to want the public’s input (after the decision was made anyway) such as 150 does.