Leave a “strong” public ES for Catholic?

[Anonymous]

We can afford the 9K tuition (with FA) but it’s still extra money we could save if we do public. However, we see so many academic benefits from Catholic in addition to the lovely close knit community, smaller teacher/student ratio and how the school embraces other religions (despite teaching from the Catholic perspective of course). Public would be considered by many a “strong” one but class sizes are in the large side. Feeling “guilty” about oaring tuition while having a “good” public in neighborhood..but is it “good” for real…

[Anonymous]

How do you decide what “good for real” means? TBH it sounds like you have no real criteria other than class size, and maybe not that clear a sense of what it’s like inside your “strong public.” Go visit.

[Anonymous]

Posters have reported disruptive behaviors in W-feeders with large class sizes. My two youngest didn’t do MCPS for ES. According to their teachers, both struggled to learn how to filter out disruptive classmates in MS and HS respectively, but arrived in MCPS with more self-discipline and academic resilience than their peers. They also had more opportunities in ES. DD’s Catholic ES took a field trip at least every month and they didn’t repeat grade to grade. Music and FL were real classes, not specials.

[Anonymous]

You have to make your own choice. But know at Catholic schools, how the school "embraces other religions" is to show how they're inferior but still worthy of studying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You have to make your own choice. But know at Catholic schools, how the school "embraces other religions" is to show how they're inferior but still worthy of studying.

What is the alternative? Never mentioning religion and pretending none of them exist?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We can afford the 9K tuition (with FA) but it’s still extra money we could save if we do public. However, we see so many academic benefits from Catholic in addition to the lovely close knit community, smaller teacher/student ratio and how the school embraces other religions (despite teaching from the Catholic perspective of course). Public would be considered by many a “strong” one but class sizes are in the large side. Feeling “guilty” about oaring tuition while having a “good” public in neighborhood..but is it “good” for real…

What are the benefits again?

[Anonymous]

The Catholic classes are smaller, but at ours, it was very “today I teach this in this manner.” So it wasn’t individualized like I expected (perhaps unfairly) and no centers (though it was Covid). The old fashioned teaching methods and attitude (punishment for fidgeting) are what people there want, so go eyes wide open. There was a family with six kids shoe sixth kid was disruptive and the family was so active in the school they didn’t do much. Turns out kids are kids everywhere.

This is like your fourth post on this. Visit your ES before you avoid a lovely school because “posters” mentioned disruptive kids. Get off DCUM and look at things in real life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We can afford the 9K tuition (with FA) but it’s still extra money we could save if we do public. However, we see so many academic benefits from Catholic in addition to the lovely close knit community, smaller teacher/student ratio and how the school embraces other religions (despite teaching from the Catholic perspective of course). Public would be considered by many a “strong” one but class sizes are in the large side. Feeling “guilty” about oaring tuition while having a “good” public in neighborhood..but is it “good” for real…

What are the benefits again?

You and your kids get to be around financially similarly situated families at private schools. It’s like at Costco…a members only club.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We can afford the 9K tuition (with FA) but it’s still extra money we could save if we do public. However, we see so many academic benefits from Catholic in addition to the lovely close knit community, smaller teacher/student ratio and how the school embraces other religions (despite teaching from the Catholic perspective of course). Public would be considered by many a “strong” one but class sizes are in the large side. Feeling “guilty” about oaring tuition while having a “good” public in neighborhood..but is it “good” for real…

What are the benefits again?

Op here.

Teacher-student ratio (2 teachers per class up to grade 4, after that, ratio is still small as kids are divided up in various classes based on academic need)
Smaller community where they do know your kid’s name
Spanish class 2 times per week starting in pk
PE 3 times a week
2 recesses
Strong reading and writing foundation taught
Teacher stability… the majority has been there for years and love the school and teaching
Much more racially diverse than our public ES for sure
More hands on learning opportunities as teachers do have more flexibility in how to teach
Less Chromebook use in young grades
Cursive still being taught for those who can/want to learn

These are the ones I can think of

[Anonymous]

If you’re “torn” about this you should probably go private, because no one on this anonymous forum knows you and your kids well enough to make a persuasive or compelling argument for you doing otherwise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We can afford the 9K tuition (with FA) but it’s still extra money we could save if we do public. However, we see so many academic benefits from Catholic in addition to the lovely close knit community, smaller teacher/student ratio and how the school embraces other religions (despite teaching from the Catholic perspective of course). Public would be considered by many a “strong” one but class sizes are in the large side. Feeling “guilty” about oaring tuition while having a “good” public in neighborhood..but is it “good” for real…

I would guess there are many families that pay the 10k tuition yes, many though receive financial aid. There are very wealthy families/kids in our local public ES

What are the benefits again?

You and your kids get to be around financially similarly situated families at private schools. It’s like at Costco…a members only club.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We can afford the 9K tuition (with FA) but it’s still extra money we could save if we do public. However, we see so many academic benefits from Catholic in addition to the lovely close knit community, smaller teacher/student ratio and how the school embraces other religions (despite teaching from the Catholic perspective of course). Public would be considered by many a “strong” one but class sizes are in the large side. Feeling “guilty” about oaring tuition while having a “good” public in neighborhood..but is it “good” for real…

What are the benefits again?

You and your kids get to be around financially similarly situated families at private schools. It’s like at Costco…a members only club.

There are many families that yes can pay the 10k per year tuition at the Catholic, but many that receive financial aid… There are many wealthy families in our public ES, so social economic diversity in our public is non existent

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We can afford the 9K tuition (with FA) but it’s still extra money we could save if we do public. However, we see so many academic benefits from Catholic in addition to the lovely close knit community, smaller teacher/student ratio and how the school embraces other religions (despite teaching from the Catholic perspective of course). Public would be considered by many a “strong” one but class sizes are in the large side. Feeling “guilty” about oaring tuition while having a “good” public in neighborhood..but is it “good” for real…

What are the benefits again?

Op here.

Teacher-student ratio (2 teachers per class up to grade 4, after that, ratio is still small as kids are divided up in various classes based on academic need)
Smaller community where they do know your kid’s name
Spanish class 2 times per week starting in pk
PE 3 times a week
2 recesses
Strong reading and writing foundation taught
Teacher stability… the majority has been there for years and love the school and teaching
Much more racially diverse than our public ES for sure
More hands on learning opportunities as teachers do have more flexibility in how to teach
Less Chromebook use in young grades
Cursive still being taught for those who can/want to learn

These are the ones I can think of

Ok. Go. Enjoy. Good luck. Bon voyage. Go with God.

Just stop creating serial posts on the same topic and arguing with folks when they answer your questions in good faith.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We can afford the 9K tuition (with FA) but it’s still extra money we could save if we do public. However, we see so many academic benefits from Catholic in addition to the lovely close knit community, smaller teacher/student ratio and how the school embraces other religions (despite teaching from the Catholic perspective of course). Public would be considered by many a “strong” one but class sizes are in the large side. Feeling “guilty” about oaring tuition while having a “good” public in neighborhood..but is it “good” for real…

Not sure what you are looking for. No one can make this decision for you. What many think doesn’t matter, it’s what you think and want to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We can afford the 9K tuition (with FA) but it’s still extra money we could save if we do public. However, we see so many academic benefits from Catholic in addition to the lovely close knit community, smaller teacher/student ratio and how the school embraces other religions (despite teaching from the Catholic perspective of course). Public would be considered by many a “strong” one but class sizes are in the large side. Feeling “guilty” about oaring tuition while having a “good” public in neighborhood..but is it “good” for real…

What are the benefits again?

Op here.

Teacher-student ratio (2 teachers per class up to grade 4, after that, ratio is still small as kids are divided up in various classes based on academic need)
Smaller community where they do know your kid’s name
Spanish class 2 times per week starting in pk
PE 3 times a week
2 recesses
Strong reading and writing foundation taught
Teacher stability… the majority has been there for years and love the school and teaching
Much more racially diverse than our public ES for sure
More hands on learning opportunities as teachers do have more flexibility in how to teach
Less Chromebook use in young grades
Cursive still being taught for those who can/want to learn

These are the ones I can think of

Ok. Go. Enjoy. Good luck. Bon voyage. Go with God.

Just stop creating serial posts on the same topic and arguing with folks when they answer your questions in good faith.

you are hilarious.. who is arguing? A question was asked, and an answer was provided. Sounds like you did not like the answer