Rich Leonardi has the goods on a disgusting move by some Catholic school parents in Cincy

When classes began Thursday morning, June 1, at the Catholic elementary school of St. Mary, a parish in the affluent Hyde Park neighborhood on Cincinnati’s East Side, nine students were curiously absent. That is because their parents, including one St. Mary schoolteacher, were shuttling them to their new public school in nearby Madisonville, just in time to attend the last day of classes.

You see, John P. Parker Elementary is in a state of "academic emergency" and has been for more than three years. That status enables its students to qualify for a tuition-assistance voucher from the State of Ohio. St. Mary, the school in which the nine students have been enrolled for all but one day this year, is participating in the program and has opted to accept vouchers next year. These creative-thinking new "Parker" parents hoped to game the system and stick Ohio’s taxpayers with next year’s tuition bill once they returned to the St. Mary fold.

Go read Rich’s full entry, which includes the whistling-in-the-dark attitude of the principal.

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