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Article Grading: Also, many schools in the USA fitting this description would never use the term, "parochial," leaving that mainly to the Lutherans and Roman Catholics. |
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I'd like to see some authority for
- "....with most of the public against the idea. Also a significant part of the population is against faith based schools being legal at all, citing potential damages to a multicultural society as their main reason."
Avalon 21:42, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
I think this poll is what you are after.
I'm not sure whether it deserves a mention in the actual article but people interested in this topic might like to know that there is currently an on-line petition to MPs and Lords calling for "amendments to the Education Bill (28th February 2006) to prevent the further proliferation of sect schools in the UK" and "for an end to state-funded education which is controlled by any religious group or affiliated with any religious beliefs". You can sign it here. GrahamN 19:00, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] US usage
I'd like to see some authority for "used to distinguish a school operated by a Catholic church from one operated by a Protestant church". Wl219 00:32, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
- There is none. In Milwaukee we have both Catholic and Lutheran systems, and both are referred to as "parochial schools." If folks don't object, I'm gonna delete that passage soon.--Orange Mike 20:54, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
I don't know about "authority," but here in California, I have never heard any non-Catholic religious school called a parochial school. Protestant variants are usually distinguished by either denomination or the word "Christian," Jewish schools are usually called "Hebrew," and Greek/Russian/Eastern Orthodox schools are called "Orthodox."Hmadrone 17:51, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
- The next sentence seems to completely contradict this point anyway, saying that all denominations use the term "parochial schools". Walton monarchist89 12:15, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
Not all Catholic schools are parochial either; here in Philly, "parochial" tends to mean "operated by the diocese", and there are plenty of both Catholic "parochial" and "private" schools in the area. Krimpet 06:00, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
Technically a "parochial school" means a school operated by a parish. Within the Catholic church, the term parochial does, as Krimpet pointed out, distinguish between a diocean school and a school run by an order (such as Jesuits, Paulists, etc). I believe that the phrase "parochial school" has different meanings by region, however - like Hmadrone, here in California I've never heard of a non-Catholic school that was referred to as parochial.
I thin it's more fair to state that this is a regional distinction. In some regions (California) "parochial" is used to refer specifically to a Catholic school. In the Midwest and in New York, a "parochial" school may be Protestant or Jewish. The passage should be changed to reflect the regional nature of this distinction, rather than lumping the whole U.S. into a single use. Mike 11:26, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
