Parents usually have to pay tuition for their children to attend. Sometimes it is Crazy Expensive!

IMHO the only thing the children appear to be learning in these schools is how to behave like privileged brats.

Sister Mary should once again be allowed to discipline these children to help instill a strong sense of what is right & what is wrong. Treat your elders with respect!

Let me say that there are exceptions out there to what I am saying & I apologize to those schools, but for the most part parents are living in denial if they think that their children are getting a better education in these overpriced schools.

I am a product of public education & I turned out purty good. Least that's what my corrections officer told me!🌫

I like blue jeans better than corduroys.

There. I said it.

See how they gooooooo........after the shoooooooooow...

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Kinda young, kinda wow!

Just curious.

Why do you care about Catholic Schools?

Might as well complain about people who own expensive cars. I mean, you paid much less and they do the same thing, right?

My kids go to public schools. I agree with your post. But I don't understand the point?

the crux of the matter is the apostrophe

I was wondering the same thing. My kids actually DO go to a private Catholic School. We made the decision to send them there primarily for 2 reasons: 1) to learn about and to be able to talk about religion/prayer/God/ Jesus during school and 2) although we live in a GREAT school district, the grade sizes number in the 500-600 kids. We didn't want them to get lost in the shuffle.

Not sure where you get your rant from, but their school isn't uppity. They wear uniforms to keep from any type of clothing competitions. The school accepts (without payment) many underproveledged kids and the school is extremely culturally diverse.

They get to talk about holiday like Christmas and Easter and get to explain them rather than not being able to talk about them.

I see it as a win/win. Small classes, nurturing teachers, learning about school and religion, etc.

I'm sure there are private schools out there in large cities where the kids are uppity and spoiled. I doubt it is only Catholic schools, though.

to not send my kids to public schools.

What fallacy is that? And who is promoting it?

It really depends on where you live. You can't group all private or public schools as a collective and determine their proficiency. But private schools are an option, and if they don't perform then they'll cease to exist. They can pick and choose their students and weed out those who are disruptive or don't perform.

Public schools, on the other hand, can suck the big wazoo and still increase attendence year after year, without an option to weed out the bad apples except for severe disciplinary purposes.

But even at a "bad" school, most kids can get a good education if they want to put the effort into it.

The biggest difference I see between the two is how colleges view the school. Because if the school is ranked low, a top 10 student may not get a whiff of a top tier college despite the excellent achievement.

As a parent of a child who graduated with honors from a Catholic School, discipline was not even on the radar in terms of the reasons we chose to send our child a Catholic School. In addition, none of the parents that we know sent their sons there for discipline. That is our job, not their's.

My son learned a lot about reading, writing, arithmetic and being a man, but nothing about being a privileged brat.

Seems you may be lumping all Catholic schools in with one that you have a problem with.

94% of the 95% of the kids that return to public school is because their parents probably can't afford the tution and their local school taxes.

Here's an idea: When people decide to bring another human being in this world, it's their responsible to provide for them. Even their education.

Many elderly people are forced to aquire reverse mortagaes to pay the endless amount of school taxes in order to remain in their home.

You'll be paying for that free education for the rest of your life.

When all is said in done you could have sent all of your kids to Ivy League Schools by the time you're finished paying a life time of your local school taxes.

Unless of course you move to Delaware.

95%?

Based on your math and writing skills, I wouldn't send my kids to the place where you went either...

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sorry