Chicago, Ill., Mar 7, 2005 / 22:00 pm
Chicago Sun-Times columnist Suzanne Ontiveros says she considers herself and her son blessed to have received a Catholic school education and laments the news that another 23 Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Chicago are slated for closure at the end of the school year.
“It's awful watching the slow demise of a wonderful education system,” she wrote in her column last week. But she is hoping that some marketing whiz will step up to the plate and sell the benefits of the Catholic education system to Catholics and non-Catholics alike.
“The curriculum doesn't have the bells and whistles you see at the prestigious private schools that have waiting lists every year,” she conceded. But it has “so many often-overlooked little things come together to make a big difference in how Catholic school children come out as citizens of our world.”
When it comes to lifelong learning and success in higher education, Catholic schools know how to deliver, she said.