re: Redemptorist shutting down.

Were the voucher students athletes? What is the criteria to get a voucher?

Just read the whole FAQ

My thing is, they let RHS fall off and shut down but STILL are talking about maybe bringing that other catholic school that wants to come to BR???


Dirty bullshite I tell you.

I have no prob with a new school opening shop. But when u completely shut down one and then open a new one, that's when the red flags are thrown.


How are the other surround Catholic high schools enrollment and staying open? I know St. John - plaquemine, ascension catholic and CHS-PC has small enrollment and been open for years?

Modern are these schools you mentioned Diocesan schools governed by Dr Mel or are they parochial?

It's my understanding that if they aren't diocesan schools, the parish priests run the school not Dr Melanie Verges.

Well... two thoughts.

1) Cristo Rey is a completely different model of school. If RHS were to adopt that model, it would look nothing like it currently does.

2) Sometimes something happens with a school reputation and location that the only feasible option is to shut it down, and try something somwhere else.

I know very little about RHS, but it's very sad anytime a school closes. My catholic elementary school closed about 6 years after I graduated from it, and a lot of schools have closed since Katrina. Many times, there is a common thread - the neighborhood no longer has the demographics to support the school.

Also, at lease here in NOLA, as the public schools start to improve and the catholic schools price themselves out of range for many people, it's becoming harder and harder to choose the Catholic school.

Ascension catholic, CHSPC and St John are all dioesan schools ran by Mel

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Redemptorist shutting down.

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this is their last year I just heard on the news. WTH? too bad of an area for people to send their kids to school I would guess. Oh well my kids are grown so I couldn't care less.

frick you with an AIDS dick fricking a-hole!

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The decent public school system in Zachary and Central shut them down.

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That and there's better private education even outside of the diocese in PBS, Episcopal, CLA, Dunham, and even So Lab that will take many of Redemptorist's athletes and still allow them to compete at high levels of play in a multitude of sport.