parochial school (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Dan Goncharoff]

Doesn't the Church of England call its parish schools "parochial"??
DanG

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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