Comments on: Bishop asks secondary schools to look at enrolment policies https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2019/12/02/bishop-asks-secondary-schools-to-look-at-enrolment-policies/ The New Zealand National Catholic Newspaper Fri, 20 Dec 2019 03:57:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.2 By: Greg https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2019/12/02/bishop-asks-secondary-schools-to-look-at-enrolment-policies/#comment-43694 Fri, 20 Dec 2019 03:57:01 +0000 https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=20452#comment-43694 This is good leadership by Bishop Pat in Auckland.

Other areas of justice, subsidiarity, and integrity that need addressing are if Catholic schools are to be more than “cheap-private” are:
(1) creation of enrollment zones for Catholic colleges. The poaching by wealthier Catholic colleges of the select “cream” in areas already serviced by a poorer Catholic colleges makes a mockery of proclaiming the kingdom through justice.
(2) Tagging of staff. Both the judgement of acceptability for Catholic character and the imaginative accounting made to reach the tagging minimums (40%) need some honest reflection.

We do not want to get into a future situation where the state schools seriously consider challenging our special character protection.

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