“Catholic schools in the Diocese of Rochester had the sixth-highest loss of students in the nation over the past decade.”

“We certainly are not happy with that status, but we are turning that around,” said Sister Janice Morgan, interim Catholic schools superintendent for the Rochester diocese.

“If the diocese approached schools at risk last year and asked for consultation, they may have seen any number of very creative and valid proposals,” said Mike McDougall, who has a son at Good Shepherd School in Henrietta, one of the schools that will be closed.

“Although the diocese has been spending about $100,000 a year on marketing, McDougall, who works in public relations, said he approached the diocese about a year ago and offered to help increase enrollment, but diocesan officials never took him up on his offer.”

The above excerpts are from this morning’s D&C in an article titled “Catholic Schools’ Decline Here Among the Worst in U.S.

It all sounds so familiar-the DOR once again ranked among the worst in the nation, a layperson who offered to help but was ignored, and a DOR spokesperson trying to convince us that things are turning around. It’s all beginning to sound like a badly broken record. At least the media is beginning to see through the charade.