parochial school (UNCLASSIFIED)

Dan Goncharoff thegonch at GMAIL.COM
Tue Apr 5 15:23:33 UTC 2011


Doesn't "parochial" mean :of a parish", so a parochial school would be run
by a religion that has parishes?

I am not Catholic, but my religion has parishes, and has always had
parochial schools.

DanG

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <
Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:

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> From Sunday's _Huntsville Times_:
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> "Administrators at a Huntsville parochial school say that efforts to
> discuss buying one of the city's public schools have gone without
> response from the school system, despite a financial crisis that will
> force the closure of several schools over the next year.
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> Officials at Whitesburg Christian Academy and its parent, Whitesburg
> Baptist Church, say they have gone so far as to discuss the idea with
> the realty company handling the sales of four currently empty school
> buildings."
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> Obviously, the writer is using "parochial school" to refer to a school
> with a Baptist background.  I, until this very day, thought that
> "parochial school" meant a school run by the Roman Catholic church.  OED
> says "a school established and maintained by a religious body", but
> several of the cites seem to imply that only a Roman Catholic school is
> parochial.
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