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The saddest of news - I no longer have an alma mater in the Wyoming Valley; Gate of Heaven elementary and middle schools are closing at the end of this school year. This new closing is to go along with my high school, Bishop O'Reilly which stopped shaping the minds of kids in 2007. It's extremely sad to know that when I go home, I have no place to visit teachers - I'll have no place to show my kids... Things like this make me lose faith in the Catholic church. It's a shame kids won't get the same education I received at both of these fine institutions all because of a little money...
So many memories... May the gator live on <3

Addendum: I sent the link to my brother and this was his reply. I couldn't have said it better myself...

"That's [the closing] really bad. They had a 90% retention rate and they still shut them down. I can't believe that "the large discrepancy between enrollment and capacity" is what he cited as the reason. That's like closing a store in Shavertown with solid sales because it doesn't match the volume of sales with one in New York City. The only difference is that the 'store' he is closing has the memories and lives of thousands of people invested in it. It is really sad. And they wonder why church attendance is down. Maybe its not the employees, maybe its the managers."