Students owing tuition are pulled from classes at Catholic school

About 300 students at Marian Catholic High School in Chicago Heights were behind in payment
March 11, 2009

What started as an uneventful first day of a new quarter at Marian Catholic High School in Chicago Heights, Ill., soon turned to mass confusion as an unprecedented 300 students with outstanding tuition bills were pulled from classes. The students—whose parents owed between $750 and $5,000—lined up outside the school office Monday morning as their accounts were sorted out. By lunchtime, about 100 students were sent home—some confused, some embarrassed and a few angry.

Read The Chicago Tribune article.

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