Catholic Schools

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NP- Are all parochial schools the same academically? I’m in MOCO. Is there a difference academically between Little Flower, Blessed Sacrament, St Bart’s and Holy Redeemer in Kensington?

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Anonymous wrote:Cue the anti-Catholic crowd.

= the anti-Hispanic crowd = those deranged WASPies calling us "latinx"

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Anonymous wrote:We are considering sending our daughter to a Catholic school for middle school. We had planned on MCPS but are concerned with the subject matter they are focusing on this summer. I have no issue with LGBTQ people or their rights but as a parent, I feel that these types of discussions are my role to frame and discuss at home, not at school, and especially not with preteens. How are the Catholic schools handling these issues?
Also, academically how do they challenge students who need enrichment?

We moved our kids away from FCPS and into Catholic schools for mostly the same reason: a combination of increasingly disorganized and subpar academic instruction and a political focus on kooky left-wing wokeness; the issues are related, as the time/effort/resources that are focused on wokeness detract from the core academics which are supposed to be the focus. We were also uncomfortable with a lot of the political nonsense that has been introduced in schools.

Our children--ranging from young elementary to high school teenagers--are all in Catholic school now, and we are so glad that we made the switch! We could never go back to the government-run-like-the-DMV public school after experiencing a true school community with teachers and a school administration that are responsive to parents and actually focused on education. The main difference is the basic approach of Catholic schools wherein they say "Parents are the primary educators of their children; we partner with parents to educate their children." To the extent that non-academic issues are discussed at all, it's all based on basic Christian values and all very age appropriate. Of course, it also helps that disruptive and disrespectful students are not tolerated, which makes for a safer and more enjoyable learning experience for all. We have also been relieved that the Catholic schools in this area use much less "electronic babysitting" (i.e., screen-time) for students and still use textbooks rather than sending students online for everything like we were seeing in public school.

For the record, my wife and I both grew up attending public school, and neither one of us thought that our children would ever attend private school. But honestly, the Catholic schools of 2022 remind me of what public school back in the 1980s/1990s used to be like -- a focus on academics, no political indoctrination in school, and a respect for parents when it came to teaching values.

It's a bit late in the summer to try to make the switch --- back when we switched, we had to really work hard to find schools with openings. Good luck with your decision and I hope it works out for you.

Perfectly said. Especially about parents being through primary educators.

Really so you want parents teaching Chem, calculus, advanced maths and science you are an idiot

Catholic schools are for indoctrination fact. You want your Christian values fine absolutely fine. However, do not ever think a Catholic School is better than public, especially with parent input.

Tell us the truth your kids are there because you support racism fact.

You obviously don’t know what “partner” means.

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Anonymous wrote:We are considering sending our daughter to a Catholic school for middle school. We had planned on MCPS but are concerned with the subject matter they are focusing on this summer. I have no issue with LGBTQ people or their rights but as a parent, I feel that these types of discussions are my role to frame and discuss at home, not at school, and especially not with preteens. How are the Catholic schools handling these issues?
Also, academically how do they challenge students who need enrichment?

We moved our kids away from FCPS and into Catholic schools for mostly the same reason: a combination of increasingly disorganized and subpar academic instruction and a political focus on kooky left-wing wokeness; the issues are related, as the time/effort/resources that are focused on wokeness detract from the core academics which are supposed to be the focus. We were also uncomfortable with a lot of the political nonsense that has been introduced in schools.

Our children--ranging from young elementary to high school teenagers--are all in Catholic school now, and we are so glad that we made the switch! We could never go back to the government-run-like-the-DMV public school after experiencing a true school community with teachers and a school administration that are responsive to parents and actually focused on education. The main difference is the basic approach of Catholic schools wherein they say "Parents are the primary educators of their children; we partner with parents to educate their children." To the extent that non-academic issues are discussed at all, it's all based on basic Christian values and all very age appropriate. Of course, it also helps that disruptive and disrespectful students are not tolerated, which makes for a safer and more enjoyable learning experience for all. We have also been relieved that the Catholic schools in this area use much less "electronic babysitting" (i.e., screen-time) for students and still use textbooks rather than sending students online for everything like we were seeing in public school.

For the record, my wife and I both grew up attending public school, and neither one of us thought that our children would ever attend private school. But honestly, the Catholic schools of 2022 remind me of what public school back in the 1980s/1990s used to be like -- a focus on academics, no political indoctrination in school, and a respect for parents when it came to teaching values.

It's a bit late in the summer to try to make the switch --- back when we switched, we had to really work hard to find schools with openings. Good luck with your decision and I hope it works out for you.

Perfectly said. Especially about parents being through primary educators.

Really so you want parents teaching Chem, calculus, advanced maths and science you are an idiot

Catholic schools are for indoctrination fact. You want your Christian values fine absolutely fine. However, do not ever think a Catholic School is better than public, especially with parent input.

Tell us the truth your kids are there because you support racism fact.

You obviously don’t know what “partner” means.

Or "racism"

Or "values"

Or "advanced maths and science"

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, NP here. My rising 9th grader who just graduated from a parochial K-8 and is going into a diocesan HS has completed both Algebra I and Geometry also. She tested into Algebra II for 9th grade. I am not saying this is super special, but it is not BEHIND public school kids. Also, she had to pass exemption exams for both Algebra I and Geometry to place into Algebra II; we couldn’t just sign her up for it, like her parochial school peers who are going into Fairfax County public HSs; she passed both those exams with flying colors. And our parochial K-8 had full-time school during ‘20-‘21 (her 7th grade year) when all of FCPS was remote.

This. But I would also add that many public systems (MCPS for one) saw severe drops in math scores. Specifically in Geometry and Algebra.

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Anonymous wrote:We are considering sending our daughter to a Catholic school for middle school. We had planned on MCPS but are concerned with the subject matter they are focusing on this summer. I have no issue with LGBTQ people or their rights but as a parent, I feel that these types of discussions are my role to frame and discuss at home, not at school, and especially not with preteens. How are the Catholic schools handling these issues?
Also, academically how do they challenge students who need enrichment?

We moved our kids away from FCPS and into Catholic schools for mostly the same reason: a combination of increasingly disorganized and subpar academic instruction and a political focus on kooky left-wing wokeness; the issues are related, as the time/effort/resources that are focused on wokeness detract from the core academics which are supposed to be the focus. We were also uncomfortable with a lot of the political nonsense that has been introduced in schools.

Our children--ranging from young elementary to high school teenagers--are all in Catholic school now, and we are so glad that we made the switch! We could never go back to the government-run-like-the-DMV public school after experiencing a true school community with teachers and a school administration that are responsive to parents and actually focused on education. The main difference is the basic approach of Catholic schools wherein they say "Parents are the primary educators of their children; we partner with parents to educate their children." To the extent that non-academic issues are discussed at all, it's all based on basic Christian values and all very age appropriate. Of course, it also helps that disruptive and disrespectful students are not tolerated, which makes for a safer and more enjoyable learning experience for all. We have also been relieved that the Catholic schools in this area use much less "electronic babysitting" (i.e., screen-time) for students and still use textbooks rather than sending students online for everything like we were seeing in public school.

For the record, my wife and I both grew up attending public school, and neither one of us thought that our children would ever attend private school. But honestly, the Catholic schools of 2022 remind me of what public school back in the 1980s/1990s used to be like -- a focus on academics, no political indoctrination in school, and a respect for parents when it came to teaching values.

It's a bit late in the summer to try to make the switch --- back when we switched, we had to really work hard to find schools with openings. Good luck with your decision and I hope it works out for you.

Perfectly said. Especially about parents being through primary educators.

Really so you want parents teaching Chem, calculus, advanced maths and science you are an idiot

Catholic schools are for indoctrination fact. You want your Christian values fine absolutely fine. However, do not ever think a Catholic School is better than public, especially with parent input.

Tell us the truth your kids are there because you support racism fact.

You again. Catholic schools are blowing away most public schools now. You are living in the past. Public schools are all about indoctrination. Catholic schools are focusing on academics.

Nearly all the required reading was liberal leaning at my child’s Catholic.

But are they asking about their pronouns?

There’s a transgender child at my child’s Catholic and I had to explain it.

That's the way it should be. Not your child's teacher. And your teacher should not be asking about your child's preferred pronoun. This world is going off the deep end.

Totally agree but am not naive to think that the Catholics don’t have liberal leaning teaching and indoctrination going on as I’ve witnessed.

Far and few between. Switch schools immediately.

The others are not good academically. And since I care about academics, that’s a big, fat no to parochial.

I am the PP whose daughter was advanced math along with half of her class in her small one class per grade parochial. Public schools are so far behind on math, they will never catch up since being closed for an entire year.

Honey, they were already ahead of parochials in math despite being closed down.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, NP here. My rising 9th grader who just graduated from a parochial K-8 and is going into a diocesan HS has completed both Algebra I and Geometry also. She tested into Algebra II for 9th grade. I am not saying this is super special, but it is not BEHIND public school kids. Also, she had to pass exemption exams for both Algebra I and Geometry to place into Algebra II; we couldn’t just sign her up for it, like her parochial school peers who are going into Fairfax County public HSs; she passed both those exams with flying colors. And our parochial K-8 had full-time school during ‘20-‘21 (her 7th grade year) when all of FCPS was remote.

This. But I would also add that many public systems (MCPS for one) saw severe drops in math scores. Specifically in Geometry and Algebra.

Plenty of public school kids are doing well in algebra and geometry. You do not need parochial to achieve that and would argue that one might as well attend public rather than pay for parochial unless one wants a smaller class size. That would be the only benefit.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, NP here. My rising 9th grader who just graduated from a parochial K-8 and is going into a diocesan HS has completed both Algebra I and Geometry also. She tested into Algebra II for 9th grade. I am not saying this is super special, but it is not BEHIND public school kids. Also, she had to pass exemption exams for both Algebra I and Geometry to place into Algebra II; we couldn’t just sign her up for it, like her parochial school peers who are going into Fairfax County public HSs; she passed both those exams with flying colors. And our parochial K-8 had full-time school during ‘20-‘21 (her 7th grade year) when all of FCPS was remote.

This. But I would also add that many public systems (MCPS for one) saw severe drops in math scores. Specifically in Geometry and Algebra.

Plenty of public school kids are doing well in algebra and geometry. You do not need parochial to achieve that and would argue that one might as well attend public rather than pay for parochial unless one wants a smaller class size. That would be the only benefit.

I have children in both. Class sizes in parochial are not necessarily smaller.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, NP here. My rising 9th grader who just graduated from a parochial K-8 and is going into a diocesan HS has completed both Algebra I and Geometry also. She tested into Algebra II for 9th grade. I am not saying this is super special, but it is not BEHIND public school kids. Also, she had to pass exemption exams for both Algebra I and Geometry to place into Algebra II; we couldn’t just sign her up for it, like her parochial school peers who are going into Fairfax County public HSs; she passed both those exams with flying colors. And our parochial K-8 had full-time school during ‘20-‘21 (her 7th grade year) when all of FCPS was remote.

This. But I would also add that many public systems (MCPS for one) saw severe drops in math scores. Specifically in Geometry and Algebra.

Plenty of public school kids are doing well in algebra and geometry. You do not need parochial to achieve that and would argue that one might as well attend public rather than pay for parochial unless one wants a smaller class size. That would be the only benefit.

I have children in both. Class sizes in parochial are not necessarily smaller.

Daughter's Catholic parochial class size was 24 for all classes except ELA and Math. Those classes were broken out and she had 9 students in her math class.

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Anonymous wrote:We are considering sending our daughter to a Catholic school for middle school. We had planned on MCPS but are concerned with the subject matter they are focusing on this summer. I have no issue with LGBTQ people or their rights but as a parent, I feel that these types of discussions are my role to frame and discuss at home, not at school, and especially not with preteens. How are the Catholic schools handling these issues?
Also, academically how do they challenge students who need enrichment?

We moved our kids away from FCPS and into Catholic schools for mostly the same reason: a combination of increasingly disorganized and subpar academic instruction and a political focus on kooky left-wing wokeness; the issues are related, as the time/effort/resources that are focused on wokeness detract from the core academics which are supposed to be the focus. We were also uncomfortable with a lot of the political nonsense that has been introduced in schools.

Our children--ranging from young elementary to high school teenagers--are all in Catholic school now, and we are so glad that we made the switch! We could never go back to the government-run-like-the-DMV public school after experiencing a true school community with teachers and a school administration that are responsive to parents and actually focused on education. The main difference is the basic approach of Catholic schools wherein they say "Parents are the primary educators of their children; we partner with parents to educate their children." To the extent that non-academic issues are discussed at all, it's all based on basic Christian values and all very age appropriate. Of course, it also helps that disruptive and disrespectful students are not tolerated, which makes for a safer and more enjoyable learning experience for all. We have also been relieved that the Catholic schools in this area use much less "electronic babysitting" (i.e., screen-time) for students and still use textbooks rather than sending students online for everything like we were seeing in public school.

For the record, my wife and I both grew up attending public school, and neither one of us thought that our children would ever attend private school. But honestly, the Catholic schools of 2022 remind me of what public school back in the 1980s/1990s used to be like -- a focus on academics, no political indoctrination in school, and a respect for parents when it came to teaching values.

It's a bit late in the summer to try to make the switch --- back when we switched, we had to really work hard to find schools with openings. Good luck with your decision and I hope it works out for you.

Perfectly said. Especially about parents being through primary educators.

Really so you want parents teaching Chem, calculus, advanced maths and science you are an idiot

Catholic schools are for indoctrination fact. You want your Christian values fine absolutely fine. However, do not ever think a Catholic School is better than public, especially with parent input.

Tell us the truth your kids are there because you support racism fact.

You again. Catholic schools are blowing away most public schools now. You are living in the past. Public schools are all about indoctrination. Catholic schools are focusing on academics.

Nearly all the required reading was liberal leaning at my child’s Catholic.

But are they asking about their pronouns?

There’s a transgender child at my child’s Catholic and I had to explain it.

That's the way it should be. Not your child's teacher. And your teacher should not be asking about your child's preferred pronoun. This world is going off the deep end.

Totally agree but am not naive to think that the Catholics don’t have liberal leaning teaching and indoctrination going on as I’ve witnessed.

Far and few between. Switch schools immediately.

The others are not good academically. And since I care about academics, that’s a big, fat no to parochial.

I am the PP whose daughter was advanced math along with half of her class in her small one class per grade parochial. Public schools are so far behind on math, they will never catch up since being closed for an entire year.

Honey, they were already ahead of parochials in math despite being closed down.

Not any more Honey!

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Anonymous wrote:We are considering sending our daughter to a Catholic school for middle school. We had planned on MCPS but are concerned with the subject matter they are focusing on this summer. I have no issue with LGBTQ people or their rights but as a parent, I feel that these types of discussions are my role to frame and discuss at home, not at school, and especially not with preteens. How are the Catholic schools handling these issues?
Also, academically how do they challenge students who need enrichment?

We moved our kids away from FCPS and into Catholic schools for mostly the same reason: a combination of increasingly disorganized and subpar academic instruction and a political focus on kooky left-wing wokeness; the issues are related, as the time/effort/resources that are focused on wokeness detract from the core academics which are supposed to be the focus. We were also uncomfortable with a lot of the political nonsense that has been introduced in schools.

Our children--ranging from young elementary to high school teenagers--are all in Catholic school now, and we are so glad that we made the switch! We could never go back to the government-run-like-the-DMV public school after experiencing a true school community with teachers and a school administration that are responsive to parents and actually focused on education. The main difference is the basic approach of Catholic schools wherein they say "Parents are the primary educators of their children; we partner with parents to educate their children." To the extent that non-academic issues are discussed at all, it's all based on basic Christian values and all very age appropriate. Of course, it also helps that disruptive and disrespectful students are not tolerated, which makes for a safer and more enjoyable learning experience for all. We have also been relieved that the Catholic schools in this area use much less "electronic babysitting" (i.e., screen-time) for students and still use textbooks rather than sending students online for everything like we were seeing in public school.

For the record, my wife and I both grew up attending public school, and neither one of us thought that our children would ever attend private school. But honestly, the Catholic schools of 2022 remind me of what public school back in the 1980s/1990s used to be like -- a focus on academics, no political indoctrination in school, and a respect for parents when it came to teaching values.

It's a bit late in the summer to try to make the switch --- back when we switched, we had to really work hard to find schools with openings. Good luck with your decision and I hope it works out for you.

Perfectly said. Especially about parents being through primary educators.

Really so you want parents teaching Chem, calculus, advanced maths and science you are an idiot

Catholic schools are for indoctrination fact. You want your Christian values fine absolutely fine. However, do not ever think a Catholic School is better than public, especially with parent input.

Tell us the truth your kids are there because you support racism fact.

You again. Catholic schools are blowing away most public schools now. You are living in the past. Public schools are all about indoctrination. Catholic schools are focusing on academics.

Nearly all the required reading was liberal leaning at my child’s Catholic.

But are they asking about their pronouns?

There’s a transgender child at my child’s Catholic and I had to explain it.

That's the way it should be. Not your child's teacher. And your teacher should not be asking about your child's preferred pronoun. This world is going off the deep end.

So no one can discuss sexuality or gender as concepts except you to your kids? Sorry, you are way out of it. If it exists, it's up for discussion. No one is indoctrinating your child. However, you are.

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Anonymous wrote:We are considering sending our daughter to a Catholic school for middle school. We had planned on MCPS but are concerned with the subject matter they are focusing on this summer. I have no issue with LGBTQ people or their rights but as a parent, I feel that these types of discussions are my role to frame and discuss at home, not at school, and especially not with preteens. How are the Catholic schools handling these issues?
Also, academically how do they challenge students who need enrichment?

We moved our kids away from FCPS and into Catholic schools for mostly the same reason: a combination of increasingly disorganized and subpar academic instruction and a political focus on kooky left-wing wokeness; the issues are related, as the time/effort/resources that are focused on wokeness detract from the core academics which are supposed to be the focus. We were also uncomfortable with a lot of the political nonsense that has been introduced in schools.

Our children--ranging from young elementary to high school teenagers--are all in Catholic school now, and we are so glad that we made the switch! We could never go back to the government-run-like-the-DMV public school after experiencing a true school community with teachers and a school administration that are responsive to parents and actually focused on education. The main difference is the basic approach of Catholic schools wherein they say "Parents are the primary educators of their children; we partner with parents to educate their children." To the extent that non-academic issues are discussed at all, it's all based on basic Christian values and all very age appropriate. Of course, it also helps that disruptive and disrespectful students are not tolerated, which makes for a safer and more enjoyable learning experience for all. We have also been relieved that the Catholic schools in this area use much less "electronic babysitting" (i.e., screen-time) for students and still use textbooks rather than sending students online for everything like we were seeing in public school.

For the record, my wife and I both grew up attending public school, and neither one of us thought that our children would ever attend private school. But honestly, the Catholic schools of 2022 remind me of what public school back in the 1980s/1990s used to be like -- a focus on academics, no political indoctrination in school, and a respect for parents when it came to teaching values.

It's a bit late in the summer to try to make the switch --- back when we switched, we had to really work hard to find schools with openings. Good luck with your decision and I hope it works out for you.

Perfectly said. Especially about parents being through primary educators.

Really so you want parents teaching Chem, calculus, advanced maths and science you are an idiot

Catholic schools are for indoctrination fact. You want your Christian values fine absolutely fine. However, do not ever think a Catholic School is better than public, especially with parent input.

Tell us the truth your kids are there because you support racism fact.

You again. Catholic schools are blowing away most public schools now. You are living in the past. Public schools are all about indoctrination. Catholic schools are focusing on academics.

Nearly all the required reading was liberal leaning at my child’s Catholic.

But are they asking about their pronouns?

There’s a transgender child at my child’s Catholic and I had to explain it.

That's the way it should be. Not your child's teacher. And your teacher should not be asking about your child's preferred pronoun. This world is going off the deep end.

Totally agree but am not naive to think that the Catholics don’t have liberal leaning teaching and indoctrination going on as I’ve witnessed.

Far and few between. Switch schools immediately.

The others are not good academically. And since I care about academics, that’s a big, fat no to parochial.

I am the PP whose daughter was advanced math along with half of her class in her small one class per grade parochial. Public schools are so far behind on math, they will never catch up since being closed for an entire year.

Honey, they were already ahead of parochials in math despite being closed down.

Not any more Honey!

They are still passed parochial and will continue, sweetheart. Sorry you need public to shut down for your parochial to try to catch up.

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The defenders of and apologists for the public schools are always with us on this forum.

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Anonymous wrote:We are considering sending our daughter to a Catholic school for middle school. We had planned on MCPS but are concerned with the subject matter they are focusing on this summer. I have no issue with LGBTQ people or their rights but as a parent, I feel that these types of discussions are my role to frame and discuss at home, not at school, and especially not with preteens. How are the Catholic schools handling these issues?
Also, academically how do they challenge students who need enrichment?

We moved our kids away from FCPS and into Catholic schools for mostly the same reason: a combination of increasingly disorganized and subpar academic instruction and a political focus on kooky left-wing wokeness; the issues are related, as the time/effort/resources that are focused on wokeness detract from the core academics which are supposed to be the focus. We were also uncomfortable with a lot of the political nonsense that has been introduced in schools.

Our children--ranging from young elementary to high school teenagers--are all in Catholic school now, and we are so glad that we made the switch! We could never go back to the government-run-like-the-DMV public school after experiencing a true school community with teachers and a school administration that are responsive to parents and actually focused on education. The main difference is the basic approach of Catholic schools wherein they say "Parents are the primary educators of their children; we partner with parents to educate their children." To the extent that non-academic issues are discussed at all, it's all based on basic Christian values and all very age appropriate. Of course, it also helps that disruptive and disrespectful students are not tolerated, which makes for a safer and more enjoyable learning experience for all. We have also been relieved that the Catholic schools in this area use much less "electronic babysitting" (i.e., screen-time) for students and still use textbooks rather than sending students online for everything like we were seeing in public school.

For the record, my wife and I both grew up attending public school, and neither one of us thought that our children would ever attend private school. But honestly, the Catholic schools of 2022 remind me of what public school back in the 1980s/1990s used to be like -- a focus on academics, no political indoctrination in school, and a respect for parents when it came to teaching values.

It's a bit late in the summer to try to make the switch --- back when we switched, we had to really work hard to find schools with openings. Good luck with your decision and I hope it works out for you.

Perfectly said. Especially about parents being through primary educators.

Really so you want parents teaching Chem, calculus, advanced maths and science you are an idiot

Catholic schools are for indoctrination fact. You want your Christian values fine absolutely fine. However, do not ever think a Catholic School is better than public, especially with parent input.

Tell us the truth your kids are there because you support racism fact.

You again. Catholic schools are blowing away most public schools now. You are living in the past. Public schools are all about indoctrination. Catholic schools are focusing on academics.

Nearly all the required reading was liberal leaning at my child’s Catholic.

But are they asking about their pronouns?

There’s a transgender child at my child’s Catholic and I had to explain it.

That's the way it should be. Not your child's teacher. And your teacher should not be asking about your child's preferred pronoun. This world is going off the deep end.

Totally agree but am not naive to think that the Catholics don’t have liberal leaning teaching and indoctrination going on as I’ve witnessed.

Far and few between. Switch schools immediately.

The others are not good academically. And since I care about academics, that’s a big, fat no to parochial.

I am the PP whose daughter was advanced math along with half of her class in her small one class per grade parochial. Public schools are so far behind on math, they will never catch up since being closed for an entire year.

Honey, they were already ahead of parochials in math despite being closed down.

Not any more Honey!

They are still passed parochial and will continue, sweetheart. Sorry you need public to shut down for your parochial to try to catch up.

LOL, keep fantasizing Honey.

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Anonymous wrote:We are considering sending our daughter to a Catholic school for middle school. We had planned on MCPS but are concerned with the subject matter they are focusing on this summer. I have no issue with LGBTQ people or their rights but as a parent, I feel that these types of discussions are my role to frame and discuss at home, not at school, and especially not with preteens. How are the Catholic schools handling these issues?
Also, academically how do they challenge students who need enrichment?

We moved our kids away from FCPS and into Catholic schools for mostly the same reason: a combination of increasingly disorganized and subpar academic instruction and a political focus on kooky left-wing wokeness; the issues are related, as the time/effort/resources that are focused on wokeness detract from the core academics which are supposed to be the focus. We were also uncomfortable with a lot of the political nonsense that has been introduced in schools.

Our children--ranging from young elementary to high school teenagers--are all in Catholic school now, and we are so glad that we made the switch! We could never go back to the government-run-like-the-DMV public school after experiencing a true school community with teachers and a school administration that are responsive to parents and actually focused on education. The main difference is the basic approach of Catholic schools wherein they say "Parents are the primary educators of their children; we partner with parents to educate their children." To the extent that non-academic issues are discussed at all, it's all based on basic Christian values and all very age appropriate. Of course, it also helps that disruptive and disrespectful students are not tolerated, which makes for a safer and more enjoyable learning experience for all. We have also been relieved that the Catholic schools in this area use much less "electronic babysitting" (i.e., screen-time) for students and still use textbooks rather than sending students online for everything like we were seeing in public school.

For the record, my wife and I both grew up attending public school, and neither one of us thought that our children would ever attend private school. But honestly, the Catholic schools of 2022 remind me of what public school back in the 1980s/1990s used to be like -- a focus on academics, no political indoctrination in school, and a respect for parents when it came to teaching values.

It's a bit late in the summer to try to make the switch --- back when we switched, we had to really work hard to find schools with openings. Good luck with your decision and I hope it works out for you.

Perfectly said. Especially about parents being through primary educators.

Really so you want parents teaching Chem, calculus, advanced maths and science you are an idiot

Catholic schools are for indoctrination fact. You want your Christian values fine absolutely fine. However, do not ever think a Catholic School is better than public, especially with parent input.

Tell us the truth your kids are there because you support racism fact.

You again. Catholic schools are blowing away most public schools now. You are living in the past. Public schools are all about indoctrination. Catholic schools are focusing on academics.

Nearly all the required reading was liberal leaning at my child’s Catholic.

But are they asking about their pronouns?

There’s a transgender child at my child’s Catholic and I had to explain it.

That's the way it should be. Not your child's teacher. And your teacher should not be asking about your child's preferred pronoun. This world is going off the deep end.

Totally agree but am not naive to think that the Catholics don’t have liberal leaning teaching and indoctrination going on as I’ve witnessed.

Far and few between. Switch schools immediately.

The others are not good academically. And since I care about academics, that’s a big, fat no to parochial.

I am the PP whose daughter was advanced math along with half of her class in her small one class per grade parochial. Public schools are so far behind on math, they will never catch up since being closed for an entire year.

Honey, they were already ahead of parochials in math despite being closed down.

Not any more Honey!

They are still passed parochial and will continue, sweetheart. Sorry you need public to shut down for your parochial to try to catch up.

Here's some data for you. MCPS has a lot of catching up to do. Sad.

https://moderatelymoco.com/mcps-grade-3-mathematics-proficiency-test-score-data-by-school-over-time/

https://moderatelymoco.com/mcps-middle-school-algebra-1-proficiency-test-score-data-by-school-over-time/