A sad end for a fine institution...

[kyugy]

It was announced yesterday that my old high school will be closing it's doors at the end of this year and never opening them again. Bayley Ellard has finally been shut down by the diocese. It was not the finest institution ever as far as academics go, and the student body had a higher average of delinquents, sex fiends and drug users, but that

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[webmistress_liz]

i don't care, and let me tell you why...

i graduated 5 years ago...

[kyugy]

Yeah, but consider this: we met at Bayley. Imagine how many people aren't going to meet and become friends because that school is gone. I got a lot out of Bayley, and it's not like they can take any of that away from me, but it's for all those kids who won't get the same chances to meet great people and make great friends that I'm truly sad for. Bayley was a special place, and now that place is gone, and it sucks for all those people who wanted to go there...

[webmistress_liz]

fate is fate... consider all the people who DIDN'T meet because their parents threw them in private schools... i mean... the only thing that sucks is all the underprivelaged kids who have to either pay more or find another cheap high school that isn't in newark or irvington...

and really... bayley was special in the short bus kind of way... some of my friends in college thought it was one of those high schools for the emotionally disturbed...

[kyugy]

I stick to my previous statement that things would have turned out a lot wrose for me had it not been for Bayley, and I can think of quite a few other people who that applies to.

I'm not trying to pretend Bayley was a high school Harvard, but it was still a better alternative than a lot of other schools. A lot fewer people fell through the cracks at Bayley, especially the kids coming from Newark. The alternative for them would have been a public school that would have pushed them through and graduated them no matter what they did. I mean the literacy rate alone in the Newark high schools is enough to make a sane person sick. And there are a lot of publich schools in Morris county that would have just looked at lazy kids and figured they were brain dead and let them go. I'd like to think that while Bayley didn't save everyone, it at least made a better effort than the public school system.