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Divvy Group: #3 (Road to Perdition (♣ “Massive demographic shifts also…

- - - - "What has failed to permeate the debate, however, is that while Catholic schools originally developed to serve and protect Catholic children and to advance the faith, many inner-city Catholic schools now serve predominantly non-Catholic, poor, minority students.” (Smarick, 2011, p. 124)
- - - - Nearly all of the approximately 17 million immigrants who entered the United States between 1850 and 1900 came from Europe, and many from predominantly Catholic countries like Italy and Ireland. By the turn of the 20th century, America had become 16% Catholic. (Smarick, 2011, p. 116)
        
        In the 1995 case Pierce v. Society of Sisters, the court made it a state requirement that students are allowed to attend private schools.
        
        “In 1881,New York had to refuse admission to nearly 10,000 children because the city lacked classroom space; in Chicago in 1886, had all students reported for school as required, there would have been room for only one-third of them.” (Smarick, 2011, p.116)