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As the parent quoted in the alumnae survey, the inconsistencies between the school's actual environment and the legacy of Catherine's mission mainly went unnoticed by me as a student. "I attended Mother McAuley as a white student from Mount Greenwood. But as an alumna of McAuley, the largest all-girls school in the country, and an admirer of Catherine McAuley-the foundress of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas after whom the school is named-I'm disappointed an institution that repeatedly highlights McAuley's care for marginalized women in its curriculum would act so glaringly out of line with her legacy. As the whole nation became more aware of the systemic racism that shapes our culture, McAuley alumnae and students continued to speak out about racism in the school's halls. [Extracted from the article]