re: Rummel's enrollment numbers dwindling and principal to resign

Rummel lost what they had when they thought it was a good idea to fire all the the teachers that have been there for a decade or longer for these 20 something year old lazy asses who don't teach anything. It's been downhill ever since

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I dont understand why everyone doesnt go for Jesuit. Cheapest and best

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Based on the above chart it does appear to be a good overall value. I still see benefit in a school like Country Day or Newman however as well.

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I still see benefit in a school like Country Day or Newman however as well.

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If you want your kid to go Ivy League, yea maybe. But if you don't have two and half times the money lying around, it's very hard to justify sending your kid there. Of course this is the OT, so everyone can afford it.

The tuition number is just one of a number of factors, they Catholic schools all balance out right near $10,000 per year, and make up the differences in other areas, fees, etc.

Last week for LHSAA reclassification, Brother Martin is listed at 919 students. That's not busting at the seams, it was 1,200 just a couple years ago when both of my sons were there, now one has graduated. B.M.'s 7th grade is closing after this year in compliance with the Archdiocese' new guidelines for school grade alignment.

There are any number of reasons of Rummel's trouble as well as the general decline in Catholic high school enrollments, IMO. Part is the tuition numbers and fees, and all the other money one spends at the schools (t-shirts for this, that and the other; activity raffles; general fundraising; galas; supporting athletic events.) Tuitions need to be high just to pay salaries, like in any organization. If they paid teachers like the publics, they'd all be closed already.

Ease of travel in greater New Orleans. When I went to high school 30 years ago, it was a cast-iron bitch to go to school on the East Bank from the West Bank. We did it, but it wasn't easy or cost-effective. Now, with a newly renovated, easy Huey P. Long Bridge, four lanes on the CCC, a vastly improved I-10/I-610 corridor, and there's way more choice in which school to attend because transportation/commute issues are a shadow of what they once were.

Anybody remember "controls" on the Mississippi River Bridge, prior to 1987? Nightmare. Now? not so much. Heck, Metairie to B.M. or H.C. is 20 minutes in the heaviest of traffic on a normal day. On a good day, it's even quicker.

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If you want your kid to go Ivy League, yea maybe. But if you don't have two and half times the money lying around, it's very hard to justify sending your kid there. Of course this is the OT, so everyone can afford it.

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I agree. Jesuit may be the best overall value as I said however depending on the kid's chosen field in life a school like Newman or Country Day may better prepare them.

Jesuit > Rummel

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$8k/yr isnt' a high tuition for a catholic high school, unless the school isnt' a very good academic school.

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$8K/yr + the real estate taxes you have to pay that goes towards public education. I would beg to differ that it is every expensive especially if you have multiple children. I would just move to an area with good public schools.

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I would just move to an area with good public schools.

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+1

Blue J checking in.... FYou Rummy!

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I would just move to an area with good public schools.

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that doesn't exist in the city, and who wants to commute across the bridge?