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Catholic schools are traditionally famous for the many dedicated nuns that provided the backbone of Catholic education in America. Those nuns had an enormous impact on Catholics. Counless people in their adult lives recall the nuns that taught them. Often they refer to the nuns' ruler yielding discipline. Discipline is an often under related factor in education. Without descipline schools can not operate. Much has been written about the failure of urban education in America. There are a range of factors involved here, but one fact is indisputable. Without discipline, education will not take place. And the nun's descipline meant that children in urban schools has an environment in which they could and did learn. Less well documented are the values the nins helped instill or the academic standards they required. And this was often accomplished in rough working-class neigborhoods with children thst were not easy to teach. Unlike many young women today, the nuns were not concerned about 'finding themselves'. The nuns had found thenselbes and were rock solid in their moral values. The nuns were indespensable to the operation of Catholic schools. Without state finding, financing Catholic schools was a perenial problem. The nuns provided the schools a cohort of dedicated teachers willing to work for salaries below those offerd in the state system. The decline in the number of women choosing to become nuns has been a factor in the decling number of Catholic schools around the country. Catholic schools now have to hire large numbers of teachers who are not nuns. This has substantially increased operating costs.
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