re: Dominican HS in Uptown NOLA has only 87 8th graders enrolled...

Why? We aren’t catholic so no skin in the game. After lower school in Jefferson Parish, she picked DHS for reasons I stated above. MCA definitely was more popular, and one more reason she wanted a change. Was tired of the same people pre-k through 6th. Her best friends today, years later, she met at DHS and a few more from MCA. Why have people disliked it? Seems a lot of the professionals I work with sent their kids there if they couldn’t or wouldn’t pay for the independent schools.

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Why have people disliked it?

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because we were always considered snobs - girls being bitches to other girls

One of my friends from 8th grade never spoke to me again bc I picked Dominican

Even now I live in Baton Rouge - someone will ask me where I went and I’ll tell them - and they say ‘oh that snobby school?’



But I’ve met ppl who really respect it, too.

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Of course we are in a recession and the Catholic middle class in greater NOLA is being hit hard...

there's also controversy over Supreme Court justice Amy Coney Barrett, who went there, with debate over how the school should be honoring her.

Previous classes at Dominican had well over 200 girls

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There's a continuing trend of Catholic schools closing all over the country:

75 more Catholic schools closing

The article cites three issues: the expense of schools, modern Catholics becoming more and more liberal (and thus opposing Catholic teaching and doctrine), and the loss of Nuns.

That last part really makes sense. So much of what Catholics institutions did.... especially schools and hospitals... relied on Nuns doing the grunt work. Nuns were educated and resourceful and they basically kept the wheels running. We talk about the loss of priests all the time, and not enough about how modern, liberated civilization is basically wiping Nuns out.

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The lack of acknowledgement of ACB isn't surprising, unfortunately.

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she was alumna of the year in 2018 when she was appointed a federal judge - they posted all over social media their congratulations to Amy when she was appointed to the Supreme Court - her mother even went to Dominican- I don’t know where y’all are getting your info from

I don’t know how long the Catholic schools in our town can make it….just seems inevitable they close. If they could combine the all girls and all boys schools and make it an elite sports school they could attract more students. $10k/yr just seems too little to run the school right and too expensive for parents at the same time. Who knows?

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n the city, I would send my girls to mc ghee, sacred heart and newman

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doesn’t sacred heart have a wait list a mile long?
McGhee or Newman are great - but not if you’re looking for a Catholic education.

Same for St Martin’s and Country Day

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Obama's inauguration from 2008

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I’d like proof of that, too

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This coupled with crime and a large number of families leaving Orleans Parish hasn’t helped matters either.

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why anyone would intentionally raise children in New Orleans is beyond me.

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I would send my girls to mc ghee, sacred heart and newman before Dominican.

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Those schools are also substantially more $. Not everyone can afford it.

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mean different strokes for different folks but in the city, I would send my girls to mc ghee, sacred heart and newman before Dominican. I would also consider country day and st martins in jeff parish before Dominican.

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Okay but most don’t have that kind of money