Ir promises to be another long week for the families and backers of Monsignor Bonner and Archbishop Prendergast.
That's because instead of learning their fate as expected on Friday, they instead found out that Archbishop Charles Chaput would instead take another week to review some new financial information concerning the four high school - including Bonner-Prendit - that the Blue Ribbon Commission targeted for closure.
There are various reports that even more money is now coming in to boost the schools and keep them open. Three of the schools appealed their fate; West Catholic was the only school that did not. But it appears as if there may be a plan to help all four high schools.
You can read my print column on Catholic schools here; our editorial on the school closings is here.
Obviously there were a lot of happy people around the county when the appeals were announced on Friday.
But not everyone.
The families of Nativity BVM in Media were stunned to find out that instead of being home to a new regional school in a merger with St. John Chrysostom, the local of the new school will instead be in Wallingford. St. John appealed the ruling; Nativity did not.
Now the families of Nativity are crying foul.
Technically, both schools were going to close, and a new school would be created at one of the locations. But Nativity folks are now saying they did not have a chance to air their side of the issue, and now face the prospect of getting their kids to Wallingford.
In the meantime, the boosters and families of Bonner-Prendie will spend one more week on "pins and needles" as they await another fateful Friday.
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