Photo above: John W. Hallahan Catholic Girls’ High School students participate in a Nov. 20, 2020, school walkout to protest the archdiocese’s decision to close their high school. (Courtesy of Kim Kimrey)

When Jill Kimrey, a junior at John W. Hallahan Catholic Girls’ High School, learned on Nov. 18 that the Philadelphia archdiocese would be closing her school in June, she and her family were shocked. Jill loves Hallahan — she made this video to prove it — and she was looking forward to graduating with the class of 2022, joining more than 100 years of alumnae from the oldest Catholic diocesan all-girls high school in the United States, her own grandmother among them.

She made a pact with her friends that they would stay together for their senior year, she told NCR. She cried for hours after visiting another high school as a prospective student, her mother Kim said….