{"id":3262,"date":"2010-11-22T03:50:41","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T08:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3262"},"modified":"2010-11-22T08:40:56","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T13:40:56","slug":"morning-read-north-country-catholic-schools-in-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/11\/22\/morning-read-north-country-catholic-schools-in-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read: North Country Catholic schools in decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Watertown Daily Times has a fascinating summary this morning of the travails of Roman Catholic schools in the Diocese of Ogdensburg.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20101121\/NEWS05\/311219991\">According to the article<\/a>, Catholic schools in North Country parishes have lost half their children in the last decade alone, a more rapid decline than seen in other parts of the US.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s a faith issue,&#8221; said Monsignor Robert H. Aucoin, a  diocesan priest who has served as a principal at high schools in  Watertown and Plattsburgh. &#8220;Catholic schools are faith-based. If our  faith is weak, our schools will be weak.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sister Ellen Rose Coughlin, the superintendent of Catholic schools, agreed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People  of the current generation and the generation before them are not  choosing Catholic schools as we did before, because public schools are  now more adequate and they don&#8217;t see the need for Catholic education,&#8221;  Sister Ellen Rose said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are currently 1,900 children in Roman Catholic schools within the Diocese, down from 3,900 a decade ago.\u00a0 Thirteen schools have closed.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20101121\/NEWS05\/311219991\">Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Watertown Daily Times has a fascinating summary this morning of the travails of Roman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6,4790],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3263,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262\/revisions\/3263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}