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With regard to items from Mrs. Pat Cronin's letter that you printed in your July 21st issue: St. Philip Neri School is situated quite near to us, and we know parents who send their children there and have not mentioned complaints such as Mrs. Cronin brings...
After spending nine years in Catholic schools under four orders of nuns in three states, I don't feel that those grievances exist in most parochial schools. Regarding spending $26.40 for the school play, Mrs. Cronin got off easy. When I was in public high school, my next-door neighbors spent a minimum of $30 a year on costumes alone so that their daughter could appear in our annual band concert...
...James Cronin's insistence upon the primacy of parental authority in the education of children deserves praise by parents everywhere-both Catholic and otherwise. For a schoolteacher to ask the child itself to evaluate its home training in terms of "too strict" or "too lenient" is an absurdity whose only really efficacious result would be to suggest to the child that it had the wisdom and experience to veto its parents' home program. Both America and TIME have acted commendably in bringing to the public scrutiny this undermining of the rights of parents...
Voices, writes its editors, was christened over a reflective beer at Cronin's, and consists of people "similar perhaps only in their enthusiasm for writing." Everyone contributing is in Boston for the summer; and all are under forty...
...Bless you, Mrs. Cronin; you have compiled the best list of contributing causes to teachers' headaches that I have seen in a long time," wrote Sister Mary Ransom, dean of Louisville's Nazareth College, in a not entirely convincing reply. Sister Mary's points: 1) questionnaires are an attempt to find out which children suffer from unhappy homes and thus enable the church to offer help; 2) play costumes are costly and so too are the increasing number of lay teachers needed in growing parochial schools; 3) mission collections teach children to make sacrifices; 4) Mrs. Cronin...