According to an official press release, Loretto High School is closing at the end of the semester. I have to tell you, I’m blown away. I had no idea that schools could just disappear after being a part of the community for half a century. My aunts went Loretto, my friends went to Loretto, people I’ve never met before went to Loretto. In a few short months, the place will be shuttered up like so many businesses in the surrounding streets. I’m starting to worry for the health of my neighborhood, honestly. With schools, businesses, and houses standing empty, what could be next in the greater Del Paso Manor/Arden Oaks area shuttering? Will we lose our post office? Our grocery stores? Let me tell you this: if the Hof Brau closes, we’re leaving.
In all honesty, I am really upset by this. And I’m having difficulty explaining why. Anyone else a bit shocked?
The Sac Rag 
Wow that is shocking. It’s sad they couldn’t make a big endowment push to get enough money to keep going for 3 years and get those 260 girls to graduation.
I’m confident that Congress will be able to stimulate the economy by growing a shitload of lawn grass in Washington DC and raising our energy bills (they call it “decoupling”).
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i’m rly not surprised because our class this year only had about 75 and everybody had to keep transferring out and there had been rumors that it was gonna close
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I wonder if they were against making it co-ed. It seems like that would double the enrollment. It’s really a shame for Sacramento to lose what seemed like a great high school.
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Sacramento celebrated with Grant High on it’s football championship. What percent of the graduating class for Grant can read at grade level? Loretto has been an academic leader for years. Where are this cities priorities? Grant can send it’s football team to Idaho, Texas and southern California to play a game.
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Allen,
I don’t believe it is a city priority to keep a private Catholic school open. I think it’s the Church’s priority.
Then again, I might be totally off base since I learned to read at a public school.
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Sac-eats’ response is why the school is closing. Social liberals wanted to shut down the “elite” schooling systems, dumbing down the educational system for everyone, perpetuating the cycle of state dependance/decision making, thereby cementing liberal social values as the framework within which society operates.
Step 1) Assert that the constitution says that religious schools can’t get any public money.
Step 2) Sit back and wait for the “religious” (i.e., affiliated) schools to fail due to lack of funds.
Step 3) Welcome excellent former “religious” students into mediocre public classes.
Although I don’t understand why the Vatican can’t sell off a dozen or so artworks that only the Pope gets to look at while he is in his papel bathroom, and fund the Catholic school system for a while longer. More important for the Pope to Poop with Palissy than schools to survive I guess.
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The Church has no obligation to keep Loretto open because it is not part of the Diocese of Sacramento. It’s a shame though – I went to Loretto and it was four of the most amazing years of my life. I truly believe it shaped who I am and I wouldn’t be where I am today without all of the amazing experiences I had there. Though Loretto was considered a Catholic school, the students were always given the freedom to express other beliefs. Yes, the tuition was costly, and my parents made many sacrifices to send both my sister and me there, but the school has always made the students its first priority. I had many friends who were on financial aid and part of the school’s work study program and even if there were problems with affording books or other materials, the school always found a way to help them. I am devastated that the school must close and cannot believe Sacramento is losing such a great treasure.
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There were a few ways they could have saved the school. It just wouldn’t be the same though. They could let boys in. They could lower their standards from bright to “Just better than average.” Or cut costs way down. Then it would be like every other free school in the area. It is sad to see it go.
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In response to some of the comments on here, the school did not consider going co-ed because it is run by a religious order that educates women (not by the Diocese, which is why, as Loretto Alum said, the Church has no obligation to keep it open). As a St. Francis alum, I’m truly disappointed that Sacramento is losing such a good school. I know many people who attended Loretto, and I can only imagine how they must feel. I know I would be devastated if my high school were to close.
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The churches don’t even pay taxes, you’d think they could keep a school open. Anyone else feel that they should be taxed on their income? Maybe that would help all the budget deficits!
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I don’t see why taxing a religious school would make it more likely to stay open. Maybe I am missing your point. Maybe your point is just that churches should be taxed.
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All for taxing churches, so long as churches get tax money back for worthy efforts (schooling kids, helping the poor eat, etc.), which they don’t get now. All for supporting worthy institutions.
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Mad Dog: I think the more important point is that the people who pay tuition at a church school pay taxes, and are going to have to gear up to pay even more taxes here in CA to fix the problem of there not being enough money going around. Hey wait…
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I’m for taxing the churches, not extra taxes on the school. I wasn’t exactly clear.
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It is a shame Loretto is closing, but we’ve been here before. Doesn’t anyone remember when this happened to Mercy (also a Catholic girls school) in Carmichael? It closed in 1983. Your arguments for keeping it open and suggestions how to keep it open all sound familiar too. In the end, it closed it’s doors and we were scattered to the four winds.
Although it seems like the end of the world to you girls now, know this — you will survive.
It will be sad — and you will be angry — perhaps for a very long time, but in time your fond memories of your beloved school will outshine these dark days. I know this because I’ve been there and have the distinction of being part of the Mercy class of ’84 — the FIRST class NOT to graduate from Mercy. Yes, I changed school my senior year. I didn’t like it, but I got through it. You will too. I promise ………..
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And when one door closes…
From sanjuan.edu:
Hey, wait…isn’t San Juan experiencing a declining enrollment amid challenging economic conditions?
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A Web site has been created to fight the good fight for Loretto.
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Bad news for Loretto fans…
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Get over it, things change in life, nothing lasts forever, and for those who think public school is less of an education, most of the people who run this country, and in positions to make decisions for our community were educated in the public school system.
Not that big of a deal, roll with it. Play with the big dogs or get off the porch.
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I’m pretty sure all of the people who have ever and will ever run this country will have gone to Harvard or Yale.
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I would love to have “getoverit” (if that is your real name) as a eulogist at my funeral. He/she has got that sentimentality that I just adore.
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Reality is… its closing. In addition, people running the country have gone through many different school systems. Not all Ivy league.
Further, this forum is speaking about a high school not college. So Roger if your going to make a statement like that, don’t generalize, and do not say your pretty sure. Because your not pretty sure, research it, investigate, facts are the truth, truth is not your belief or opinion. Saying ALL came from Harvard or Yale is incorrect!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sac eats, are you joking??? sentimentality for what? the school is closing it is what it is. Sentiments have nothing to do with it. Its a fiscal thing, get it…. money, finances, there is not enough. Tell me where sentiment comes in when you need to pay the SMUD bill? Are you in LaLa land!!!!!!!!?????????
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Sarcasm is a form of ironic speech or writing which is bitter or cutting, being intended to taunt its target. It comes from the ancient Greek ÃαÃÂκάζÉ (sarkazo) meaning ‘to tear flesh’ but the ancient Greek word for the rhetorical concept of taunting was instead ÇλεÅαÃμÌ (chleyasmÃÅ’s).
The use of irony introduces an element of humor which may make the criticism seem more polite and less aggressive but understanding the subtlety of this usage requires second-order interpretation of the speaker’s intentions. This sophisticated understanding is lacking in people with brain damage, dementia, autism and this perception has been located by MRI in the right parahippocampal gyrus.
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My dog got his parahippocampal gyrus caught in another dog, and we had to turn the hose on them to get them apart. Turns out he got a case of doggy chleyasmÃÅ’s from the other dog, so we had to give him antibiotics.
Do they not pay the SMUD bill in LaLa land? That’s the unincorporated area near Natomas, right?
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So your saying getoverit is lacking in intelligence? its the only person about the closing that spoke without getting emotional over a subject where there is no need to emote.
How old are you…ten?
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Yeah- all that punctuation indicates pure Vulcan logic sans emoting. “Jim, are you in LaLa Land!!!!!!??????” was always my favorite Spock line.
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Let me guess a conservative Turty Squip? explains the mentality.
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Name calling and improper punctuation and grammer: also hallmarks of logical analysis. This thread only demonstrates the disorganized and delusional discourse fermenting in Whoareyou’s tiny little mind.
Life experiance, desire for traditional America’s long term growth, razor sharp wit, and focused application of logical analysis to relevant facts explains Turty’s mentality. What- you a commie, or just short sighted?
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grammar
experience
you may be right
he may be crazy
but it just may be a lunatic you’re looking for
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I’m wondering how whoareyou knew getoverit was neutered.
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You should check your spelling. In addition, there was no name calling.
Further, check MLA (most basic)for your own grammatical and punctuation errors. Twenty three words per sentence, OUCH!!!
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