The New York Times has run a series of elegiac articles on the closing of 22 Catholic elementary schools in Brooklyn and Queens.* The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times has run a series of elegiac el·e·gi·ac adj. 1. Of, relating to, or involving elegy or mourning or expressing sorrow for that which is irrecoverably past: an elegiac lament for youthful ideals. 2. articles on the closing of 22 Catholic elementary schools elementary school: see school. in Brooklyn and Queens. This is the long goodbye to a lost geography of New York The Great Appalachian Valley dominates eastern New York, while Lake Champlain is the chief northern feature of the valley, which also includes the Hudson River flowing southward to the Atlantic Ocean. The rugged Adirondack Mountains, with vast tracts of wilderness, lie west of the valley. , when, as one reporter pointed out, neighborhoods were known by their parishes--Angels for Queen of Angels, Sacred Hearts for Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. More than the New York of The Honeymooners has vanished, however, for the Catholic schools had become gateways for striving minority parents who wanted the order and discipline public schools had increasingly failed to provide. Parochial schools became vulnerable because the dearth of vocations dried the pool of low-income nun-teachers, but vouchers or tuition tax credits might have kept them alive: Parents of parochial-school students pay double to educate their kids. The taxpayers will now end up bearing the cost in any case. |
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