text: Catholic schools have a long and successful history in the US as non-taxpayer-funded alternative options to public schools. 
  
  But if agents of the Catholic school, the principal, the archidiocese, or even the pope decides who gets in and who doesn't, it's discriminatory and the school should not be using tax dollars directed to education of all citizenry.
  
  Ask for more money from your parishoners, padre, not the taxpayers.