NEW YORK.- Parents of Dominican families residing in the Upper Manhattan They regretted the closure, at the end of this school year, of 12 Catholic schools where hundreds of their children study at different levels.
Aníbal Tiburcio, Carlos Adames, Miriam de los Santos, Hugo Rosario, María Liberato, Josefina de Hernández, Luis Ml. Torres, Geraldo Abreu, Darío Ruiz and Carmen de López, among others, maintain in a press document that Catholic schools teach and instill values in children.
“It is worrying, because we have to look for new places, again the children have to get used to a new system, new friends”; In addition, we have to be sure that it will be taught as it should be, “they specify.
In Manhattan they will be closed: “Our Lady Queen of Martyrs”, located at 81 W. Arden Street, between Broadway and Sherman avenues, in the Inwood neighborhood in Upper Manhattan.
Also, Academy of St. Paul & St. Ann; Ascension; Guardian Angel; and Immaculate Conception.
In The Bronx: Holy Family; Immaculate Conception; Santa Maria; St. Angela Merici; St Brendan’s; and St. Margaret Mary. Meanwhile, in Staten Island it will be the St. Christopher.
The schools to be merged are: St. Francis Xavier with St. Clare of Assisi; and St. Gabriel with St. Margaret of Cortona, in the Bronx.
Through a statement, Cardinal Timothy DolanArchbishop of NY, said: “It is never a good day when we announce the closure of any of our beloved schools.”
They have cited a lack of money, a drop in tuition and demographic changes since the pandemic as causes.
The Archdiocese, which serves 53,000 students from preschool to 12th grade at 170 campuses, says it was spending up to $700 million on the 12 schools it closed.
