Catholic school, not Catholic

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Anonymous wrote:DH is Catholic and made it clear he didn't DD attending Catholic elementary because of the first Communion prep (we are not raising her Catholic). He can't or won't give me a straight answer about upper grades. I'm guessing middle school is more of the same because of confirmation, but Catholic high school should be more college prep and less sacramental prep, right?

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IT’s Catholic school they teach the catholic religion they should it’s called catholic school
And while I would never ever send a kid to catholic school given the priest in my town was mr molester and then again next guy no

And as for college omg op seriously yes kids go to college are acceptances as good as public no. Science well that’s a conundrum isn’t it . Math never as good as public .

Are you a Creationist who would never send your kids to Catholic school, where they believe in science and pushing the envelope of scientific discovery? Are you afraid they will learn about Fr. Georges Lemaître, the Belgian priest known as the Father of the Big Bang Theory?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DH is Catholic and made it clear he didn't DD attending Catholic elementary because of the first Communion prep (we are not raising her Catholic). He can't or won't give me a straight answer about upper grades. I'm guessing middle school is more of the same because of confirmation, but Catholic high school should be more college prep and less sacramental prep, right?

How many threads do we have on this

IT’s Catholic school they teach the catholic religion they should it’s called catholic school
And while I would never ever send a kid to catholic school given the priest in my town was mr molester and then again next guy no

And as for college omg op seriously yes kids go to college are acceptances as good as public no. Science well that’s a conundrum isn’t it . Math never as good as public .

At least at Catholic schools they teach things like punctuation to make your writing more readable.

As for college acceptances - I'm not sure what you are comparing. Most Catholic schools have close to 100% college attendance. Not true of any public school I know. (Which isn't a knock on public schools! They are there to serve kids going directly to careers too, and that's wonderful and needed.)

What is your conundrum for science? My kid's Catholic school offers AP Physics, AP Chem, AP Bio, AP Environmental, and AP Comp Sci. Kids seem to do well on them.

The math curriculum is sort of a step behind the most accelerated path at public school - at our school kids do precalc, then AP Calc AB, then AP Calc BC. Seems like the top track kids in public school go right from precalc to AP Calc BC. So if you have a kid destined for multi-variable calculus III, then it may be a question to ask before you enroll in Catholic school

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WHY??

[Anonymous]

The majority of the large catholic HS in this area WCAC focus on sports so much that the identity of the school is more sports focused than catholic. Many students are there chasing athletic scholarship $$

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DH is Catholic and made it clear he didn't DD attending Catholic elementary because of the first Communion prep (we are not raising her Catholic). He can't or won't give me a straight answer about upper grades. I'm guessing middle school is more of the same because of confirmation, but Catholic high school should be more college prep and less sacramental prep, right?

How many threads do we have on this

IT’s Catholic school they teach the catholic religion they should it’s called catholic school
And while I would never ever send a kid to catholic school given the priest in my town was mr molester and then again next guy no

And as for college omg op seriously yes kids go to college are acceptances as good as public no. Science well that’s a conundrum isn’t it . Math never as good as public .

At least at Catholic schools they teach things like punctuation to make your writing more readable.

As for college acceptances - I'm not sure what you are comparing. Most Catholic schools have close to 100% college attendance. Not true of any public school I know. (Which isn't a knock on public schools! They are there to serve kids going directly to careers too, and that's wonderful and needed.)

What is your conundrum for science? My kid's Catholic school offers AP Physics, AP Chem, AP Bio, AP Environmental, and AP Comp Sci. Kids seem to do well on them.

The math curriculum is sort of a step behind the most accelerated path at public school - at our school kids do precalc, then AP Calc AB, then AP Calc BC. Seems like the top track kids in public school go right from precalc to AP Calc BC. So if you have a kid destined for multi-variable calculus III, then it may be a question to ask before you enroll in Catholic school

My Catholic high schooler took AP Cal BC and Multivar., AP Comp Sci, AP Physics C (both), AP Bio, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DH is Catholic and made it clear he didn't DD attending Catholic elementary because of the first Communion prep (we are not raising her Catholic). He can't or won't give me a straight answer about upper grades. I'm guessing middle school is more of the same because of confirmation, but Catholic high school should be more college prep and less sacramental prep, right?

How many threads do we have on this

IT’s Catholic school they teach the catholic religion they should it’s called catholic school
And while I would never ever send a kid to catholic school given the priest in my town was mr molester and then again next guy no

And as for college omg op seriously yes kids go to college are acceptances as good as public no. Science well that’s a conundrum isn’t it . Math never as good as public .

At least at Catholic schools they teach things like punctuation to make your writing more readable.

As for college acceptances - I'm not sure what you are comparing. Most Catholic schools have close to 100% college attendance. Not true of any public school I know. (Which isn't a knock on public schools! They are there to serve kids going directly to careers too, and that's wonderful and needed.)

What is your conundrum for science? My kid's Catholic school offers AP Physics, AP Chem, AP Bio, AP Environmental, and AP Comp Sci. Kids seem to do well on them.

The math curriculum is sort of a step behind the most accelerated path at public school - at our school kids do precalc, then AP Calc AB, then AP Calc BC. Seems like the top track kids in public school go right from precalc to AP Calc BC. So if you have a kid destined for multi-variable calculus III, then it may be a question to ask before you enroll in Catholic school

Why the heck would you take both AP Calc AB and BC? They aren’t sequential. They overlap; BC covers AB material plus more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DH is Catholic and made it clear he didn't DD attending Catholic elementary because of the first Communion prep (we are not raising her Catholic). He can't or won't give me a straight answer about upper grades. I'm guessing middle school is more of the same because of confirmation, but Catholic high school should be more college prep and less sacramental prep, right?

How many threads do we have on this

IT’s Catholic school they teach the catholic religion they should it’s called catholic school
And while I would never ever send a kid to catholic school given the priest in my town was mr molester and then again next guy no

And as for college omg op seriously yes kids go to college are acceptances as good as public no. Science well that’s a conundrum isn’t it . Math never as good as public .

At least at Catholic schools they teach things like punctuation to make your writing more readable.

As for college acceptances - I'm not sure what you are comparing. Most Catholic schools have close to 100% college attendance. Not true of any public school I know. (Which isn't a knock on public schools! They are there to serve kids going directly to careers too, and that's wonderful and needed.)

What is your conundrum for science? My kid's Catholic school offers AP Physics, AP Chem, AP Bio, AP Environmental, and AP Comp Sci. Kids seem to do well on them.

The math curriculum is sort of a step behind the most accelerated path at public school - at our school kids do precalc, then AP Calc AB, then AP Calc BC. Seems like the top track kids in public school go right from precalc to AP Calc BC. So if you have a kid destined for multi-variable calculus III, then it may be a question to ask before you enroll in Catholic school

Why the heck would you take both AP Calc AB and BC? They aren’t sequential. They overlap; BC covers AB material plus more.

Obviously an AP Calc BC class that consists of kids who came straight from precalc must learn the "A" material somewhere. My assumption is that some schools move through precalc a little faster so that their precalc class is actually pre calc and "A", and at other schools the AP Calc BC class moves actually is really AP Calc ABC.
According to the college board: "AP Calculus AB focuses on topics that are taught in the college-equivalent first-semester calculus class. AP Calculus BC focuses on topics covered in both first- and second-semester calculus classes."
It's not unreasonable for some high school students to do the first semester calc class in one year and a second semester calc class in second year.

My kid is just a 9th grader and not on the highest math track (he'll get to Calc 1, but probably not AP in 12th grade. Or maybe AP stats) so I truly don't know if some of the kids skip AB, but the "official" path at our schools is AB first and BC second.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DH is Catholic and made it clear he didn't DD attending Catholic elementary because of the first Communion prep (we are not raising her Catholic). He can't or won't give me a straight answer about upper grades. I'm guessing middle school is more of the same because of confirmation, but Catholic high school should be more college prep and less sacramental prep, right?

How many threads do we have on this

IT’s Catholic school they teach the catholic religion they should it’s called catholic school
And while I would never ever send a kid to catholic school given the priest in my town was mr molester and then again next guy no

And as for college omg op seriously yes kids go to college are acceptances as good as public no. Science well that’s a conundrum isn’t it . Math never as good as public .

At least at Catholic schools they teach things like punctuation to make your writing more readable.

As for college acceptances - I'm not sure what you are comparing. Most Catholic schools have close to 100% college attendance. Not true of any public school I know. (Which isn't a knock on public schools! They are there to serve kids going directly to careers too, and that's wonderful and needed.)

What is your conundrum for science? My kid's Catholic school offers AP Physics, AP Chem, AP Bio, AP Environmental, and AP Comp Sci. Kids seem to do well on them.

The math curriculum is sort of a step behind the most accelerated path at public school - at our school kids do precalc, then AP Calc AB, then AP Calc BC. Seems like the top track kids in public school go right from precalc to AP Calc BC. So if you have a kid destined for multi-variable calculus III, then it may be a question to ask before you enroll in Catholic school

Why the heck would you take both AP Calc AB and BC? They aren’t sequential. They overlap; BC covers AB material plus more.

Obviously an AP Calc BC class that consists of kids who came straight from precalc must learn the "A" material somewhere. My assumption is that some schools move through precalc a little faster so that their precalc class is actually pre calc and "A", and at other schools the AP Calc BC class moves actually is really AP Calc ABC.
According to the college board: "AP Calculus AB focuses on topics that are taught in the college-equivalent first-semester calculus class. AP Calculus BC focuses on topics covered in both first- and second-semester calculus classes."
It's not unreasonable for some high school students to do the first semester calc class in one year and a second semester calc class in second year.

My kid is just a 9th grader and not on the highest math track (he'll get to Calc 1, but probably not AP in 12th grade. Or maybe AP stats) so I truly don't know if some of the kids skip AB, but the "official" path at our schools is AB first and BC second.

AB is not semester one with BC semester 2. BC is more accelerated. It covers the AB material, it just does it faster. So if you do AB then BC, you are repeating all the AB material.

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PP is correct, you have precalc, Calc AB which is college calc 1 and Calc BC which is college calc 1-3. So schools can set that up any number of ways depending on how fast or slow they want to take it.

1 year of pre calc or all of it in 1 semester
1 year of calc AB or all of it in 1 semester
1 year of calc BC, or Calc BC spread over 3 semesters, the first of which covers Calc AB.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP is correct, you have precalc, Calc AB which is college calc 1 and Calc BC which is college calc 1-3. So schools can set that up any number of ways depending on how fast or slow they want to take it.

1 year of pre calc or all of it in 1 semester
1 year of calc AB or all of it in 1 semester
1 year of calc BC, or Calc BC spread over 3 semesters, the first of which covers Calc AB.

^^ meaning a shcool can offer pre calc followed by Calc BC, skipping AB as a separate class.

[Anonymous]

I guess there’s your answer about math rigor in the Catholic schools, OP. None of the schools we looked at have students taking both, just going straight to BC from precalc honors if they qualify. And we weren’t even looking at the top 5 schools, just at NoVA schools. I had no idea taking both AB and BC sequentially was a thing anywhere.

[Anonymous]

This should make it very clear why the typical progression is to take either AB or BC, not both: https://blog.collegeboard.org/difference-between-ap-calculus-ab-and-bc

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I guess there’s your answer about math rigor in the Catholic schools, OP. None of the schools we looked at have students taking both, just going straight to BC from precalc honors if they qualify. And we weren’t even looking at the top 5 schools, just at NoVA schools. I had no idea taking both AB and BC sequentially was a thing anywhere.

It isn’t at our Catholic school either. Stop generalizing.

[Anonymous]

NP, I haven’t heard of taking both AP Calc classes either. What school is this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP, I haven’t heard of taking both AP Calc classes either. What school is this?

For a lot of kids, this would be the smart thing to do. Calc BC is MUCH harder than AB and some kids just aren't ready for it coming out of precalc. After a year of AB, they are ready for it. If I were in charge, smarter kids in a typical school would go

Alg 2/Trig (9th)
Geometry would be a 1 semester separate class also freshman year or mixed into both Alg 2 and Precalc.
Precalc (10th)
AB (11th)
BC (12th)

Or (for kids with broader interetsts)
AB (11th)
Stat (12th)

Or (for some, sure)
BC (11th)
Stat (12th)