......the excellent Cardinal Vaughan School has been told to make last-minute changes to its admissions procedures, despite assurances from the relevant authorities that this would not be neccessary. Families are being put under huge pressure and hard-working pupils are being caused considerable distress.
The big question here of course concerns the Diocese of Westminster. Why, instead of supporting and encouraging this excellent school, did the diocesan authorities choose to join forces with those who were attacking and undermining it?
Surely the only sane attitude of Bishops and their officials, when seeing a massively popular and successful Catholic school, is to seek ways of ensuring that other schools follow its example and come up to scratch too?
At the moment, ordinary RCs in Britain could be forgiven for thinking that the general episcopal attitude towards anything useful and successful and creative in Catholic life is irritation and dismay rather than gratitude and support...
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The diocesan education commission who took the decision to attack CVMS via the Schools' adjudicator is not representative of Catholic parents - it seems to be made up of childless women and bishop/priests; former teachers or other providers and well-heeled Catholic ladies of a certain age. Who represents the parents view?
Second, how many of the new diocesan governors at CVMS have children in Catholic schools - did any of their children go to private/selective schools Catholic or otherwise.
Third, the Diocese has opened a hornts nest where the same adjudicator in the Newham case (Jan 2010) saying that weekly attendance at mass is merely a "mechanistic" measure of Catholicity.
Great news!
The governors of the Cardinal Vaughan referred the Schools Adjudicator and the Westminster Education Service to the high court. Within days, before the Judicial Review, the Adjudicator backed down and agreed that the school should use the previously published criteria for 6th form entry!
A great victory against the Westminster Education service, but the battle continues. We now need to fight to change the composition of the Westminster Education Service. They need to represent the desires of the parents of the diocese.
Don't sit back - act! Paul Barber and his crew have only been able to make such a mess of this, due to our apathy. Don’t let it happen again elsewhere in the diocese. Act and act now!
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