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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, I've seen it. A lot depends on the principal - a bad one can really wreck a Catholic primary school, and sometimes you get one. [/quote]

If a headmaster is so bad that allegedly dozens of parents are leaving, how would that not be addressed immediately by church leadership (and school board?)? Seems like a massive blow to small parish school's budget. Or has the Church just seen enough of these busy-body mom fueled coup attempts and they just ignore them and let them pass?[/quote]

Parochial schools don't have headmasters. Always principals.

Am aware of a school where there was a tight group of active families with a long history in the parish who clashed with a new priest and the families all left at the end of the year for another parochial school. It was 20+ kids but with a school population of 170ish at the time, it was a big hit and the school never really recovered. Part of it was that these were white families at a time of significant racial transformation to a majority black school but the families had been committed to the school till the fight with the priest. After they left, no new white families enrolled and the school lingered a few more years as an all black school before being closed by the archdiocese. Final enrollment was maybe 110-120 at most. [/quote]

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