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Bring back schools for "wayward" young women.
Or, better yet bring back convent (preferably cloistered) schools for girls/young women.
Either way pack em up, ship them out to Syosset and not let them back out until they graduate high school.
Many years ago I attended one of those convent schools in Sag Harbor. There is a whole different atmosphere w/o boys in the school.
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Yes, given the low number of parent/kids looking for the all girls Catholic school experience in the area nowadays, OLMA has seen a decline in applicants. So they were not particularly selective in terms of acceptances. And a precipitous decline in applicants (resulting in a precipitous decline in enrollment) is why it is closing.
Never was a big place for those looking to go secular Ivy. Nor would I expect it to be. As I recall, and this is 70’s -80’s, top kids tended towards the top Catholic colleges. With exceptions (of course).
Point taken. Suppose ending up at NYU is better than say Fashion Institute of Technology.
Some of the higher end schools got waivers from the state for exams. The state acknowledged that their comprehensive exams were more difficult than the State's version, so it would meet all academic criteria.
Private school teachers in turn loved this, since they could craft their own exams around the material and how it's taught as opposed to trying to warp a lesson around the "state" answer to a question.
It's not a waiver. It's accreditation. Schools that are accredited by ____ I forgot which one are exempt from giving state regents exams. Perhaps it's Atlantic Middle and High Schools Association? I can't remember.
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