Seraphina, maybe you can start a teaching order of sisters.
Not really possible. One needs a foundation, a superior—-I will not operate without one, money, and sisters. One also must have the requisite administrative, financial, and management skills, things for which I have zero aptitude.
There’s also the very serious problem of dealing with the civil authorities and of finding suitable students from truly Catholic homes. Although I am myself, a teacher, if I had children of my own, I would not ever send them to school, not even to a Catholic school. The influence of the few students from bad homes almost always ends up dragging the others down. When parents ask me which school I recommend, I always tell them to homeschool if at all possible.
I do not have the authority or physical health and stamina necessary to start a school.
Have you heard of the problems in New York and in the city in particular? If Cuomo gets his way, the public school administrations will, come September 30, be entering private and religious schools to determine if they are providing a “substantially equivalent curriculum” to that of the public schools. If they determine it is not, the state may shut the school and notify parents within 24 hours to make alternate arrangements for their children. The MSM has said nothing about this “law” concocted illegally by executive order. In NYC, like the state of NY, vaccines are mandatory in all schools for students and staff except by medical exemption. In the city, the exemption must be from a NYC DOE physician or from another physician who submits to the city physicians. They must be M.D.’s, not P.A.s, chiropractors, naturopaths, (not legal in NYS). The city is working to add HPV to the list of mandatory vaccines for children, age 9 and up. That will also include adults. My school has already lost eight very fine large families due to the vaccine issue. If HPV is added, it could very well result in our school closing down after operating since 1948. People like me will get no compensation. None of the younger teachers, although mainly Protestant, will accept the HPV shot, and the majority of parents, even if they accept some of the other shots, will consent to HPV. It’s based upon the premise that children become sɛҳuąƖly active at 10-12 years of age! Personally, I’m not concerned with vaccines since I’m old enough to have had the diseases, and the HPV is ineffective in post-menopausal women.
It has come to the tipping point where one must choose between God and a job. We Catholics already know the majority will compromise. I’ve come to the place in life where, although I don’t like it, I’d rather be homeless and found deceased somewhere than forfeit Heaven. I hope God has other plans, but if He doesn’t, it’s okay. Maybe some other soul can be saved in the process.