We had some very sad news in our little part of the world yesterday. Two longtime Catholic schools - St. Bernard's High School and Holy Childhood Grade School - announced they will close for good at the end of the school year. St. Bernard's served the Rice Street area of St. Paul for 119 years. It was always a small school ... and that is what probably did it in. But it kept a lot of kids on the straight and narrow path while not trying to beat anybody over the head with a Catholic message. I did the p.a. for their football games for years. They rarely had good teams but they always played hard and fair.
I have a lot of friends who graduated from there and who work there. They are fine people, credits to society.
We need schools like this and Holy Childhood to keep some sanity in the world.
Last night, I was working a hockey game involving Como Park, a public school that has always been a big athletic rival of St. Bernard's. To a man, the CP people were shaking their heads in disbelief and sorrow at the news.
I am sure the decision by the archdiocese was a sound one based solely on the financial situation of the school ... and the parish. All I can say is the decisions hurts like hell.
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