Pondering future as 6 Catholic schools shut down
Photo credit: Thomas A. Ferrara | Portrait of (clockwise from left) Jeanette and James McCarthy with their children, six year old Eoghan, and four year old Liam, at their home. Both Children attend Our Lady of Perpetual Help school which is one of the schools scheduled to close. (June 15, 2012)
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Christine Kennedy decided to transfer her 7-year-old son to public school in Farmingdale after church officials announced the local Catholic school would close, but she still can't bring herself to sign him up.
"It's hard to go" and officially enroll him, she said. "That means it's done." The closing of St. John Baptist De LaSalle Regional School in Farmingdale, she added, "feels like a funeral."
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