tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post3027720095440985427..comments2024-03-23T09:59:53.293+00:00Comments on LINEN ON THE HEDGEROW: Archbishop Nichols "takes over" at leading schoolRichard Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10826907710570316952noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-26426738103253298582010-12-12T00:51:11.718+00:002010-12-12T00:51:11.718+00:00Patricia
You have my sympathy.
My boys go to the L...Patricia<br />You have my sympathy.<br />My boys go to the London Oratory, and it seems the diocese do not have the same power to bully them as they are doing with The Vaughan. If they did, no doubt they would.<br />I agree with you that the CES is driven by an ideology which is antithetical to that of schools like Cardinal Vaughan. It's very disturbing.<br />I now home educate the younger ones, but a few years ago there was a very unpleasant situation at our local catholic primary school in which parents were bullied and threatened by the diocesean education department.<br />There was also outright dishonesty.<br />It was very sinister and shocking.<br />Such an eye opener for many of us.Clare@ BattlementsOfRubieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13672603563016876943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-276105006202972422010-12-03T08:20:27.823+00:002010-12-03T08:20:27.823+00:00Excellent post. Thank you.Excellent post. Thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-59473862868347516552010-12-02T16:43:42.775+00:002010-12-02T16:43:42.775+00:00I should add that I have a son at the school and c...I should add that I have a son at the school and can vouch for the fact that it is a truly wonderful Catholic school. The pupils say the Angelus every day , they go to Mass every weerk, they do the sign of the cross before every lesson. In the last two years two memebers of staff have left to train as priests and there is one vocation from a past pupil. There are very few school left like the Vaughan . My son has thrived there. Please pray that this school will not be destroyed by the ideologically driven CES.Why must all schools be exactly the same? The Vaughan is a very precious school and we must fight to preserve what is good.patriciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14192184139720388399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-48881313314377045552010-12-02T14:26:22.400+00:002010-12-02T14:26:22.400+00:00Vaughan parents are concerned because Paul Barber ...Vaughan parents are concerned because Paul Barber (head of Westminster dioces education ) has been appointed to the governing body. He has not been appointed to any other school governing body in the diocese despite the fact that other schools in the diocese have been rocked with financial scandal or our failing schools. Parents fear this is because he wishes to unpick the traditional Catholic ethos of the school and impose something more “ liberal” and less orthodox. It was Paul Barber who reported the school to the adjudicator last year<br />On a different note , when a school is hugely oversubscribed (as is the Vaughan) admissions criteria can be a way of ensuring that less affluent pupils from practising Catholic families do not lose out to families who are not practising but can afford to live in the very expensive streets around the Vaughan. This is why I disagree strongly with Jackie Parkes view on admissions. I can also testify from personal experience that the Catholic ethos does suffer when a large proportion of pupils are not sympathetic to Catholic teaching or ethos.patriciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14192184139720388399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-39690979190354791382010-12-02T12:58:16.811+00:002010-12-02T12:58:16.811+00:00JamesP ..well of course a lot of Catholic schools ...<i>JamesP ..well of course a lot of Catholic schools have a large number of Muslim pupils for whom Baptism is not an option..</i><br /><br />No doubt influenced by the ecumenaia of our bishops!Aduliohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00534730218402742905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-32246591978692796352010-12-01T13:56:03.359+00:002010-12-01T13:56:03.359+00:00JamesP ..well of course a lot of Catholic schools ...JamesP ..well of course a lot of Catholic schools have a large number of Muslim pupils for whom Baptism is not an option..Jackie Parkes MJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16693505024823229152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-80886580884117773752010-12-01T13:44:26.037+00:002010-12-01T13:44:26.037+00:00Jackie, you are right but a strong Catholic ethos ...Jackie, you are right but a strong Catholic ethos or a good headteacher cannot survive (sadly)being managed by the Diocese. The ethos element is not one that the Bishops of E & W have a good track record on.Richard Collinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10826907710570316952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-74320737160889825312010-12-01T13:38:09.942+00:002010-12-01T13:38:09.942+00:00Can you have a strong Catholic ethos with say only...Can you have a strong Catholic ethos with say only 10 % of children Catholic? As a former Head of RE & teacher I think a strong Catholic ethos can be achieved in such circumstance..we hear of so many in the 50s etc who had a "convent" education & it influenced them for life..often the rich sent their children to Catholic schools for the ethos even if they weren't Catholic..Jackie Parkes MJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16693505024823229152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-38756629553903986032010-12-01T11:46:35.584+00:002010-12-01T11:46:35.584+00:00It was a huge scandal in Colorado when a Catholic ...It was a huge scandal in Colorado when a Catholic school said they had standards about who would be accepted into the school. It is fortunate that we have a very strong Archbishop.Mary Christinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00156641491060184072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-28240097237582487722010-12-01T10:29:11.655+00:002010-12-01T10:29:11.655+00:00Jackie, I understand your comments but this issue ...Jackie, I understand your comments but this issue is about driving down the standards of education. I believe that most Catholic parents want a strong, Catholic ethos in their children's school, not a wishy washy, one size fits all version of Catholicism.Richard Collinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10826907710570316952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-6721163020891712212010-12-01T10:19:45.640+00:002010-12-01T10:19:45.640+00:00In that case Jackie - why discriminate on the basi...In that case Jackie - why discriminate on the basis of Baptism? Are parents who choose not to Baptise their children not also simply "lacksadaisical"?JamesPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14483503108839870249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-53191580126240692182010-12-01T10:16:15.265+00:002010-12-01T10:16:15.265+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.Richard Collinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10826907710570316952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-41976990425143133172010-12-01T10:10:21.499+00:002010-12-01T10:10:21.499+00:00The only thing Richard is that I don't think C...The only thing Richard is that I don't think Catholic children should be discriminated against because of their lacksadaisical parents...so I go with Archbishop Nichols on this one..Jackie Parkes MJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16693505024823229152noreply@blogger.com