To private and / or parochial school is that they are self selective and don’t have the issues that neighborhood assignment public schools have.
The screening is a feature not a bug.
The only thing I can charitably come up with is that his kids, being children of an active parish parent, were pretty much waived in and he doesn’t understand or realize this wouldn’t be the case with anyone who wandered in off the street unaffiliated.
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