Additional Insights

Some insights regarding the questionnaire that was mailed out with a cover letter dated August 11, 2006

The distance from the now Lansdale Catholic to the proposed Hilltown site, using the most direct route is approximately 8.5 miles, and it is estimated that on a normal morning, travel time between the two sites would be in the neighborhood of ½ hour.  Parents of children within St. Stanislaus, St. Rose, Corpus Christi, St. Jude, and MMR parishes should especially consider this based either on the time their children would be on a bus, or taking them to, or picking them up from, after school activities - such as sport or play practice. 

Regrettably absent from the survey are questions related to retaining a high school in Lansdale, either at the present site or elsewhere in the area.  As an act of fairness, one has to wonder why there is no mention of updating and expanding Lansdale Catholic at the present location, including utilizing some of the vacant land across the street from the school at St. Mary Manor for athletic fields or a Performing Arts Center that could be shared by both institutions (interpret that as “thinking outside the box”).

While some may argue that the present school is old, it is of the same vintage as Cardinal O’Hara, the unofficial flagship high school of the Archdiocese, and certainly much newer than the oldest high school in the Archdiocese, Roman Catholic.

□ Click here to view the cover letter from the Bishop as well as the accompanying map showing

the location of the proposed new high school in Hilltown, along with a preliminary site plan.

□ Click here to view the Archdiocesan questionnaire.  Note its lack of objectivity, in that it offers NO opportunity to express a desire to Keep LC in Lansdale, or anywhere in the North Penn area.