We've hit 100 posts and so far...the only "principled" answer we get is that that Catholics are still an oppressed group that deserves their own schools. Ultimately it's "strategic." Mostly it's not important or that it "divides people."
BTW to those who demand "evidence" that some kids have to travel far away, etc. or that abolishing Catholic schools will save money or whatever - my opposition to Catholic school funding is based entirely on the principle of secularism and not segregating children on religious lines. There is no principled, social democratic or progressive case for it.
As that Catholic school teacher told Steve Paikin about how he justified this blatant unfairness, his response was "We don't. We just look the other way and change the subject." Sounds like a true ONDPer.