I've always found this weird about Catholic schools

[Anonymous]

the sidwell and cathedral schools may be rich and entitled, but they actually are as strong academically as they believe they are, unlike the catholic schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:the sidwell and cathedral schools may be rich and entitled, but they actually are as strong academically as they believe they are, unlike the catholic schools.

Why can't you ever respond to points people make about protestant churches predominating in the south, or illegal immigrants helping Social Security? Because you ignore anything that doesn't fit into your bigotted little mindset?


You are a bigot. And you are scum.

[Anonymous]

OK, do you want your catholic schools serving the poor or serving the same elite as the Cathedral schools? Cause you think the Cathedral schools compare favorably. Is the problem that the Catholic schools aren't as good academically or that they don't serve the poor (which they do)? What exactly is it?

There are some very strong catholic schools, like say St. Anselms. How about Georgetown University? Not exactly a slacker school.

Really, I just think you are willfully ignorant. You attack the Catholic Church, you attack immigrants (Oh, excuse, only some, the ones who appear to be from Catholic countries) and you make so many obvious errors. Honestly, I'm not even Catholic and I know far more about you're talking about than you do.

I'm really glad I don't know you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
There are some very strong catholic schools, like say St. Anselms. How about Georgetown University? Not exactly a slacker school.

Or Georgetown Visitation. And wasn't Georgetown Day started by some parents working with Jesuits (although now it's secular)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:the sidwell and cathedral schools may be rich and entitled, but they actually are as strong academically as they believe they are, unlike the catholic schools.

Are you drunk? Because you're not making sense.

[Anonymous]

I think OP is getting some kind of twisted enjoyment from this. Otherwise, why would she keep reviving this thread?

[Anonymous]

With regards to the innacurate comment about Catholic High Schools not being academically tough: All I can say is that Academy of the Holy Cross was way more difficult than college and law school. The area Catholic HSs are TOUGH. The workload is HEAVY. They don't offer any blow off classes (FWIW, my "blow off" classes Senior year were Latin, English 4 (I was already taking AP English as well), and some humanities-type classes). The DC privates were filled with mostly rich kids who liked to party HARD on the weekends. The DC parties were always off the hook and made the MoCo parties seem tame in comparison.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:With regards to the innacurate comment about Catholic High Schools not being academically tough: All I can say is that Academy of the Holy Cross was way more difficult than college and law school. The area Catholic HSs are TOUGH. The workload is HEAVY. They don't offer any blow off classes (FWIW, my "blow off" classes Senior year were Latin, English 4 (I was already taking AP English as well), and some humanities-type classes). The DC privates were filled with mostly rich kids who liked to party HARD on the weekends. The DC parties were always off the hook and made the MoCo parties seem tame in comparison.

You're not convincing anyone. Catholic schools are academically subpar when compared with other top privates. Fact.

[Anonymous]

No, not fact. OP, what thrill do you get from this baiting? Do you realize how ignorant you sound?

[Anonymous]

I've found the best strategy with OP is to simply call her a bigot and not rise to the bait. I have no doubt you attended a challenging catholic school. But OP's brain is full of earwax and cotton, and nothing will penetrate. Besides, as someone said, she's twisted.

[Anonymous]

22:20 again. I didn't go to Catholic school and I'm not Catholic but I know people who have gone to very challenging catholic schools. But you are right, OP is the Queen of Backtracking. Like this who thread started because she claimed Catholic schools did a poor job of serving poor children, and now she's saying they under serve the elites. Or whatever.

[Anonymous]

OP is a very lonely person (and it's easy to see why). Imagine if the only way you could get someone to interact with you is if you make some sort of outlandish statement on an anonymous board ...

[Anonymous]

I may not agree with OP's cultural swipes at Catholic schools, but she is not the only one who thinks Catholic schools are weaker academically. And to the one who went to Holy Cross and fond it tougher than college or law school, that says a lot about your post high school education.

[Anonymous]

Catholic schools do provide education for the poor, but I'm not sure I understand OP's question. Why should catholic schools have more of an obligation than Episcopal schools, Jewish schools, baptist schools, etc....

[Anonymous]

"And to the one who went to Holy Cross and fond it tougher than college or law school, that says a lot about your post high school education. "

Um, hardly. What I meant by that statement is that all day in classes at Holy Cross followed by 3-4 (or more) hours of homework each night was super challenging and stressful. College and law school were far less stressful since I only had 5 classes at a time, they didn't meet every single day, and I could spread out the reading/coursework. One last thing for the OP to consider: how can you possibly document that one private is more challenging than another given that the privates do not release test scores or post their curricula?