Property taxes also hurt Catholic schools
Blessed Sacrament School in Valley Stream is closing. Credit: Danielle Finkelstein
Newsday reported the closing of another Catholic school ["Valley Stream Catholic school to close in June," News, Jan. 12]. In my view, the real reason wasn't mentioned. Public school taxes are now so high that many families can no longer afford spending an additional $5,000 a year or more, for each child in a private school. Increasingly, Catholic schools are now reserved for the well-to-do elite who can afford to pay for two school systems.
In Europe, religious schools receive government subsidies, but this is strongly opposed here. Rather than subsidize religious schools, at say $5,000 per child, we are shuttering these schools and moving the kids to public schools, at a cost of as much as $20,000.
This doesn't make tremendous sense.
James E. Stubenrauch
Massapequa
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