Why are so many people reactive

Sorry I haven't written something for a while. There were so many things that I could have expressed my opinion on but did not. However, this really annoys me.

Recently the Archdiocese of Philadelphia made a difficult decision to close Cardinal Dougherty and North Catholic High Schools. Of course there was a lot of belly-aching about the decision and everyone wanted to put their two cents into the ring. What I don't understand is that for years these two schools have been losing students for a number of reasons; tuition and the fact that catholic families have been moving out of the area for a while. There just wasn't enough funds to keep these schools open.

Now, didn't the families who send their children to these schools see that things were continually going down? Weren't they aware that the continual decline in enrollment was leading to the decision that the Archdiocese was forced to make? Were these parents blind to what was happening? I don't think so. Like most people, these parents refused to do anything until they were forced to. Until the situation became so critical that an unpopular decision had to be made.

Why weren't these parents pro-active in trying to stem the decline that was occuring in their neighborhoods? Why weren't they pro-active in trying to help increase the enrollment to these two schools. No, they didn't do anything and when the inevitable decision was made they RE-ACTED. If they were PRO-ACTIVE perhaps something could have been done to avoid this unfortunate decision.

People always wait until situations come to a point when there are no alternatives and then they scream why or how did this happened. Unless we begin to read the writing on the wall we're going to keep making the same mistakes over and over again.