Omaha Archdiocese Is Biased Against South Omaha

It appeared in the Omaha World Herald today that the Omaha Archdiocese office is planning to close 6 of it's 18 schools.

It just so happens that 5 of those 6 schools scheduled to be closed fall into the general area now considered to be South Omaha.  All of these five schools being south of Leavenworth street  and east of 72nd St (with the exception of St Joan of Arc school, on 74th St.)


They have only targeted one school in North-East Omaha,  just one.  They have targeted none of the schools in west Omaha.

Why is the Archdiocese picking on South Omaha parish schools?  Is it about money?  Do they not understand that parish schools are about community as much as they are about education?

Not only that, but it appears that they want to turn their system into a mini- OPS system and take administration away from the parishes and administrate them from a central committee.  Again, this goes against the grain of community oriented schools.

One last insult, they insist on using modern socialist fads in the administration of this new "district" by making everything "fair" in terms of how schools fund raise, how schools get enrollment and what students are enrolled into which schools.

In order to push their agenda, they have limited the number of people who can attend and represent a given school at the meetings.  No, they want to dominate the situation and not let the community as a whole in on what effects the whole community. 


Fellow Omaha residents and fellow residents of South Omaha, please do not take this lightly or quietly.  Even if your children do not attend local parish schools, at least stand up for South Omaha.  The Archdiocese office apparently thinks that we do not care or support our community and can manipulate us in any way they want.

Write the archdiocese office letters, emails, go to the office and express your dis-satisfaction.

Don't let them get away with shutting down primarily the South Omaha parish/community schools.