Catholic Schools

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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.

+1. I could have written this post myself. We left FCPS due to absolutely chaotic classroom behavior. A neighbor did the same last semester, years after we did. This child said that for the first time ever they are looking forward to going back to school because the kids don’t fight and there is actual learning going on.

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Anonymous wrote:Keep outsourcing and farming your kids out to the geniuses teaching at public schools. See how that works out for you.

I will as my oldest is attending University of Pennsylvania next year. You can get in touch with me when you need some help with colleges.

PP just outed her kid lol. I know exactly who it is.

Good, so you know who to get in touch with when you need help.

No help needed. We are large donors at the school of our choice. But thanks.

[Anonymous]

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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.

+1. I could have written this post myself. We left FCPS due to absolutely chaotic classroom behavior. A neighbor did the same last semester, years after we did. This child said that for the first time ever they are looking forward to going back to school because the kids don’t fight and there is actual learning going on.

Yes...lots of violent behavior at MCPS as well...even in the "good" schools.

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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/

And they will catch up and you will be trailing again as you always have been and are now.

So you admit public schools are far far behind. That's more like it.

Nope, covid has had an effect on some but is temporary as in case you haven’t heard schools are no longer shutdown. Unluckily for you, you are still behind and will continue further behind as I said the shutdown is over. And like my child who had a private tutor during that time and never fell back and is ahead of your parochial as always.

Oh so sad your kid needs a tutor to succeed. My kid has free time after school to pursue other interests. Her instruction in school is adequate to excel. I know many MCPS students even before covid that have to supplement...you read about it all the time over on the other MCPS forum.

Unfortunately, for you, your kid is subpar and didn’t ask for enrichment which my kid did. You are also bottom of the barrel to not know that tutors are not only just for deficiencies, but also for enrichment. I know plenty kids at parochial that have to supplement, I’ve worked with them. Again, bragging as you did earlier that your school passed public (which is nonsense) because of closures is not saying much.
Haven’t you heard, there are no more closures.
What parochial schools compete in quiz bowls? How often does yours participate in them? What other competition and awards have your school achieved? None.

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Anonymous wrote:Keep outsourcing and farming your kids out to the geniuses teaching at public schools. See how that works out for you.

I will as my oldest is attending University of Pennsylvania next year. You can get in touch with me when you need some help with colleges.

PP just outed her kid lol. I know exactly who it is.

Good, so you know who to get in touch with when you need help.

No help needed. We are large donors at the school of our choice. But thanks.

Ahhh, you have to buy your kids way in.
Sorry, your kid can’t do it on their own merit. I suppose you have no choice then but a school that can be bought.
Maybe you could get in touch with Lori Laughlin for college help since she too bought her child’s way into college.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Keep outsourcing and farming your kids out to the geniuses teaching at public schools. See how that works out for you.

I will as my oldest is attending University of Pennsylvania next year. You can get in touch with me when you need some help with colleges.

PP just outed her kid lol. I know exactly who it is.

Good, so you know who to get in touch with when you need help.

No help needed. We are large donors at the school of our choice. But thanks.

NP. Aunt Becky from full house, is that you?!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Keep outsourcing and farming your kids out to the geniuses teaching at public schools. See how that works out for you.

I will as my oldest is attending University of Pennsylvania next year. You can get in touch with me when you need some help with colleges.

PP just outed her kid lol. I know exactly who it is.

Good, so you know who to get in touch with when you need help.

No help needed. We are large donors at the school of our choice. But thanks.

You’ve inadvertently made yourself and child look bad.

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Anonymous wrote:Keep outsourcing and farming your kids out to the geniuses teaching at public schools. See how that works out for you.

I will as my oldest is attending University of Pennsylvania next year. You can get in touch with me when you need some help with colleges.

PP just outed her kid lol. I know exactly who it is.

Good, so you know who to get in touch with when you need help.

No help needed. We are large donors at the school of our choice. But thanks.

You’ve inadvertently made yourself and child look bad.

Why? That's how the admissions process works, right? Nothing illegal about donating to your alma mater, right? It helped our older one with admission too. Perfectly up front and legal...we even have a building with our name on it.

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Anonymous wrote:Keep outsourcing and farming your kids out to the geniuses teaching at public schools. See how that works out for you.

I will as my oldest is attending University of Pennsylvania next year. You can get in touch with me when you need some help with colleges.

PP just outed her kid lol. I know exactly who it is.

Good, so you know who to get in touch with when you need help.

No help needed. We are large donors at the school of our choice. But thanks.

You’ve inadvertently made yourself and child look bad.

Why? That's how the admissions process works, right? Nothing illegal about donating to your alma mater, right? It helped our older one with admission too. Perfectly up front and legal...we even have a building with our name on it.

DoP

Haven’t you embarrassed yourself enough?
You’re embarrassing your child and school to top it off.
No one should ever showboat that they paid their way in. I am genuinely embarrassed for you.

[Anonymous]

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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.

+1. I could have written this post myself. We left FCPS due to absolutely chaotic classroom behavior. A neighbor did the same last semester, years after we did. This child said that for the first time ever they are looking forward to going back to school because the kids don’t fight and there is actual learning going on.

We did as well and my kids' experience at their parochial school is so much better; calmer where their teachers are able to actually teach and not just try to keep order. Until we switched I had no idea how bad things were behavior-wise at our public.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Keep outsourcing and farming your kids out to the geniuses teaching at public schools. See how that works out for you.

I will as my oldest is attending University of Pennsylvania next year. You can get in touch with me when you need some help with colleges.

PP just outed her kid lol. I know exactly who it is.

Good, so you know who to get in touch with when you need help.

No help needed. We are large donors at the school of our choice. But thanks.

You’ve inadvertently made yourself and child look bad.

Why? That's how the admissions process works, right? Nothing illegal about donating to your alma mater, right? It helped our older one with admission too. Perfectly up front and legal...we even have a building with our name on it.

Now I know you are trolling. No one with half a brain would think that this would boost them to say to others. The height of humiliation.

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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.

+1. I could have written this post myself. We left FCPS due to absolutely chaotic classroom behavior. A neighbor did the same last semester, years after we did. This child said that for the first time ever they are looking forward to going back to school because the kids don’t fight and there is actual learning going on.

We did as well and my kids' experience at their parochial school is so much better; calmer where their teachers are able to actually teach and not just try to keep order. Until we switched I had no idea how bad things were behavior-wise at our public.

The the one and only thing that parochial has over public is class size which in turn fewer behavior issues. However, my child’s independent private had several worse kids than he experienced in public. It only takes a few which privates are not immune to.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

+1. I could have written this post myself. We left FCPS due to absolutely chaotic classroom behavior. A neighbor did the same last semester, years after we did. This child said that for the first time ever they are looking forward to going back to school because the kids don’t fight and there is actual learning going on.

We did as well and my kids' experience at their parochial school is so much better; calmer where their teachers are able to actually teach and not just try to keep order. Until we switched I had no idea how bad things were behavior-wise at our public.

Your neighbors kids did not leave last semester but good try.