All Hallows High School To Close

jerseyshorejohnny said:
All Hallows (Bronx) to close in June

Very sad news
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This is incredibly sad news. Catholic primary and secondary schools, many educating students from some of the poorest areas in and around NYC (and across the nation), have incredibly high graduation rates, much higher test scores, very high percentage of grads going on to college, and forming young men and women in their faith, all on shoestring budgets.

So many of our Alums support Catholic education, through direction donations, sponsoring individual student tuitions, and charities like Tomorrow"s Hope.

Unfortunately students at All Hallows will be absorbed by public schools, where their futures are staristically and collectively nowhere as bright.
 
I did volunteer work there in the 1990's and a nicer group of young men was hard to fathom. Back then they had an active alumni group who helped support the school. Our Shawnelle Scott was one of their alumni. They had some very well known alumni including Coach Jack Curran and numerous folks in the financial services business. The school had a fantastic graduation rate with virtually all kids going on to 4 year colleges.

I attended a number of their golf outings and I remember Olden Polyniece at one of them delaying the play as every ball he hit into the rough he would not leave until he found the ball, despite being given a sleeve like all other participants. The Christian brother principal finally came out with a dozen balls and told Olden to play on.

Hopefully the young men can transfer into Cardinal Hayes (Huge rival but only a mile down the concourse) and a combined student body maintain a Catholic HS presence in the poorest congressional district in the country.
 
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