Any Catholic “light” schools?

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Anonymous wrote:Wouldn't Cathlolic "light" = Episcopal?

That's too expensive, they want the cheaper price tag without the inconvenient spiritual part.

Off topic but why are episcopal schools so expensive vs Catholic? Don't they have a church structure that could financially support a school? The episcopal church is rich.

On some level, it's a choice in church priorities. And also the Episcopalians are probably looser structured than the Catholics, because there's no single head of the church and everything's more loosely woven. So there's not as much of a single set of financial priorities.

Also often Episcopal schools are like non-Diocesan Catholic schools in that they are independent of a specific church. This has it's benefits. We're at a school that was started by a Protestant church, but the church rapidly spun the school off to stand on it's own. It's therefore more expensive than a parish school, but also not tied to the ups-and-downs of the long-ago founding church.

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Our ADW school is half an hour longer than MCPS.

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Would Christian Family Montessori fit this? I honestly don't know.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m guessing the OP is a troll. Do Catholic schools actually teach reading and writing better than public’s and privates?

IMO, absolutely. We went from a progressive charter to Catholic and he made progress he never would have made if he'd stayed put. It prepared him very well for the secular private he's in now.

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Anonymous wrote:Mass and “churchy” stuff are fine. Just don’t do it at the EXPENSE of “schooly” academics. Make the days and/or school year a bit longer to accommodate. And no more BS half days.

Catholic teachers want the best of both worlds — public school calendars/pay AND the churchy stuff / well-behaved religious students. Sorry, pick one.

What Catholic school teachers are getting anywhere close to public school salaries?

Religious education is another opportunity to practice reading and writing. One reason why Catholic school writing instruction is better is because they have another writing heavy class.

I just checked the Catholic school and local public school for our MCPS neighborhood. The Catholic is 8 - 3 (7 hours) the public is 9:00 to 3:25 (6:25) so the Catholic school has 35 more minutes a day, or 175 more a week. Mass is probably 45 minutes of that, so that's 2 more hours of instruction a week. Likely more since public school dismissal takes a lot of time due to longer kiss and ride lines, and the complication of buses.

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Anonymous wrote:Mass and “churchy” stuff are fine. Just don’t do it at the EXPENSE of “schooly” academics. Make the days and/or school year a bit longer to accommodate. And no more BS half days.

Catholic teachers want the best of both worlds — public school calendars/pay AND the churchy stuff / well-behaved religious students. Sorry, pick one.

What Catholic school teachers are getting anywhere close to public school salaries?

Religious education is another opportunity to practice reading and writing. One reason why Catholic school writing instruction is better is because they have another writing heavy class.

I just checked the Catholic school and local public school for our MCPS neighborhood. The Catholic is 8 - 3 (7 hours) the public is 9:00 to 3:25 (6:25) so the Catholic school has 35 more minutes a day, or 175 more a week. Mass is probably 45 minutes of that, so that's 2 more hours of instruction a week. Likely more since public school dismissal takes a lot of time due to longer kiss and ride lines, and the complication of buses.

I’m a Catholic school teacher. I make 7% less than I did when I worked public. I happily took the pay cut! Never looked back.

I also send my kids to Catholic school partly because of the emphasis on writing. My high school senior writes essays better than I did in college. And I was an English major.

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OP here - reason I was asking is I went to school in the UK- public school.

We had prayers in assembly most days and at lunch.

We all learned to read and write, far far better than what I am seeing at my MCPS public school. It’s insane how poor of an education MCPS is providing and how little anyone seems to care!

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Anonymous wrote:Wouldn't Cathlolic "light" = Episcopal?

This

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Anonymous wrote:Wouldn't Cathlolic "light" = Episcopal?

This except Episcopal schools are generally far more $$$. Sounds like OP is asking because they are looking for a school with lower tuition (but maybe there’s another motivation???).

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Anonymous wrote:Wouldn't Cathlolic "light" = Episcopal?

This except Episcopal schools are generally far more $$$. Sounds like OP is asking because they are looking for a school with lower tuition (but maybe there’s another motivation???).

OP said she likes the curriculum of. Catholic schools, except the religion part. Do Episcopap schools have a similar curriculum?

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I'm going to presume good intent based on OP's later post. The title of this post actually is
"Are there any secular schools with core curriculum similar to Catholic schools"

That probably clarifies for many that they value the education that kids can get at Catholics but recognize that because of the religious focus of the school it might not otherwise be a good fit. This OP didn't say they wanted the lower price tag, just that they wanted the curriculum compared to what her kids are getting in MCPS.

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St Mary’s. They only go to mass once a week, and don’t monitor families for church attendance on Sundays. Some parents dislike this laid back approach.

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Anonymous wrote:Wouldn't Cathlolic "light" = Episcopal?

This.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here - reason I was asking is I went to school in the UK- public school.

We had prayers in assembly most days and at lunch.

We all learned to read and write, far far better than what I am seeing at my MCPS public school. It’s insane how poor of an education MCPS is providing and how little anyone seems to care!

I know exactly what you mean as I taught in the UK. Most state ( public ) schools are affiliated with a church ie. St peter's roman catholic school . But it's very light. Just a few religious assemblies and usually some religion classes that teach all religions. I agree about the writing instruction being a lot better in the UK and the closes I've found here are the catholic parochial schools. They really seem to be teaching the way I remember school being taught in the 80s and 90s in the US. If that's your vibe, go for it. I also like the shorter classes ( 30-40 min at ours) and the emphasis on writing plus very little tech use for now. Although the academics per se are probably on par with public, the whole set up is different so kids have more guidance and general more oversight from teachers than they did in public. In public the general consensus seemed to be that kids did well if they were from an educated background no matter what and others lagged behind. There seems to be a lot more accountability in the parochial school and as a result we don't mind the religious part. Quite the contrary. There are good lessons to be learned and our kids enjoy the stories.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here - reason I was asking is I went to school in the UK- public school.

We had prayers in assembly most days and at lunch.

We all learned to read and write, far far better than what I am seeing at my MCPS public school. It’s insane how poor of an education MCPS is providing and how little anyone seems to care!

I know exactly what you mean as I taught in the UK. Most state ( public ) schools are affiliated with a church ie. St peter's roman catholic school . But it's very light. Just a few religious assemblies and usually some religion classes that teach all religions. I agree about the writing instruction being a lot better in the UK and the closes I've found here are the catholic parochial schools. They really seem to be teaching the way I remember school being taught in the 80s and 90s in the US. If that's your vibe, go for it. I also like the shorter classes ( 30-40 min at ours) and the emphasis on writing plus very little tech use for now. Although the academics per se are probably on par with public, the whole set up is different so kids have more guidance and general more oversight from teachers than they did in public. In public the general consensus seemed to be that kids did well if they were from an educated background no matter what and others lagged behind. There seems to be a lot more accountability in the parochial school and as a result we don't mind the religious part. Quite the contrary. There are good lessons to be learned and our kids enjoy the stories.

Why do you specific Catholic parochial and not other Catholic schools?