Try and see it from that public board's stance.

People forget that there wasn't a Catholic school there in the first place.  The Catholic board shut down their only school years ago, so the public school was the only functioning school in that district.  The public board made long term plans, around closures around amalgamation, plans that take YEARS to come to fruition, and then out of nowhere the Catholic board leaps BACK into a district they'd already abandoned, with a brand new school.

Why should the public board be happy that their budgets and long term plans just got shafted with an out-of-left-field move like this?  The Catholic board and those parents have the right, but they had to expect resistance.  The quotes in the piece where the Catholic board members are astounded that this became legal make me laugh.  Really?