parochial school (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Joel S. Berson]

My experience growing up in New York City in the same period a Paul
is the same -- I heard of parochial (Catholic) schools and Hebrew
schools.  If there were "parochial" (religious) schools for
Protestant denominations I wasn't aware of them.

That colors my reception today -- if I read "parochial" my thought is
"Catholic" unless and until something else changes that presumption.

Joel

At 4/5/2011 11:11 AM, paul johnson wrote:
>paul johnson
>
>Growing up in Chicago during the 40 and 50s there were parochial (read
>Catholic) and Hebrew schools.  Never ever heard of a Jewish school
>called parochial, even though almost every one I knew was aware of the
>definition.
>     Retired here in Arkansas, Christian Academy is code for white, but
>to digress, Christian here is code for something I don't fully
>understand.  Living in Illinois, Wisconsin and Florida if you asked
>someone what religion they were you would get answered with  that named
>the sect that they belonged to.  Here a standard answer is "'I'm a
>Christian"  Said with just a whiff of aggression, Somewhat like a Cuban
>in Miami.
>     My guess is that around here Christian means, Republican, right to
>bear arms, anti abortion and anti union; plus church going.
>
>On 4/5/2011 9:54 AM, Charles C Doyle wrote:
>>Isn't that simply because until pretty recently nearly all
>>"religious" primary and secondary schools in the U.S. were Roman Catholic?
>>
>>In the South, the burgeoning of Protastant parochial schools
>>strangly coincided with the racial integration of public schools . . . .
>>
>>--Charlie
>>
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>>
>>  From Sunday's _Huntsville Times_:
>>
>>"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.
>>
>>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."
>>
>>
>>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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