Start the countdown clock. We’re less than 24 hours from a ruling that will forever alter the long tradition of Monsignor Bonner and Archbishop Prendergast high schools.
On Friday Archbishop Charles Chaput will rule on the appeals filed by many schools – including Bonner-Prendie – to the recommendation from the Blue Ribbon Commission that they be shut down.
The panel targeted 49 schools across the region, including the two traditional single-sex high schools in Drexel Hill and seven grade schools across the county.
Now there is only one problem. So far the archdiocese has not uttered a single word on how or what time this decision is going to be announced. So we have to sit and wait.
Judging by what I’ve been hearing from the Bonner-Prendie boosters, it’s been an agonizing week.
We could not confirm reports that a group of influential boosters met with Chaput one final time this week. Maybe they wanted to remind him that there were 5 million reasons why Bonner-Prendie should be kept open.
That’s how much money they’ve raised – in a very short time – in reponse to the recommendation that the schools close their doors forever.
An anonymous donor put up a matching $2.5 million, after other donors lifted the $1.4 raised by boosters to $2.5 million.
Now all they can is wait. And pray.
Will their prayers be answered. We’ll find out Friday. And we’ll let you know as soon as we get word.
If the archdiocese holds a press conference downtown, we’ll be there and we’ll be live-tweeting from the event.
Keep checking @philheron on Twitter, and DelcoTimes.com for any updates all day today and into tomorrow.
Oh, and one other thing. Keep the faith!
On Friday Archbishop Charles Chaput will rule on the appeals filed by many schools – including Bonner-Prendie – to the recommendation from the Blue Ribbon Commission that they be shut down.
The panel targeted 49 schools across the region, including the two traditional single-sex high schools in Drexel Hill and seven grade schools across the county.
Now there is only one problem. So far the archdiocese has not uttered a single word on how or what time this decision is going to be announced. So we have to sit and wait.
Judging by what I’ve been hearing from the Bonner-Prendie boosters, it’s been an agonizing week.
We could not confirm reports that a group of influential boosters met with Chaput one final time this week. Maybe they wanted to remind him that there were 5 million reasons why Bonner-Prendie should be kept open.
That’s how much money they’ve raised – in a very short time – in reponse to the recommendation that the schools close their doors forever.
An anonymous donor put up a matching $2.5 million, after other donors lifted the $1.4 raised by boosters to $2.5 million.
Now all they can is wait. And pray.
Will their prayers be answered. We’ll find out Friday. And we’ll let you know as soon as we get word.
If the archdiocese holds a press conference downtown, we’ll be there and we’ll be live-tweeting from the event.
Keep checking @philheron on Twitter, and DelcoTimes.com for any updates all day today and into tomorrow.
Oh, and one other thing. Keep the faith!
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