Catholic schools rigor?

[Anonymous]

True story. A friend of mine whose daughter attended MCPS through HS is now at Towson University. She is struggling because she doesn't know how to study. Because she never had exposure to mid term or final exams, she is having to learn how to study and is considering dropping a class or two. This is so sad.

Also, she was an honor student in HS FWIW.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:True story. A friend of mine whose daughter attended MCPS through HS is now at Towson University. She is struggling because she doesn't know how to study. Because she never had exposure to mid term or final exams, she is having to learn how to study and is considering dropping a class or two. This is so sad.

Also, she was an honor student in HS FWIW.

Oh we lived that story with our oldest. He attended our local public HS and never had to really learn to study and didn't have exams. Went to college and it did not go well with him dropping out after just one year.

Partly due to that experience, we put #2 son in a small Catholic preparatory high school, and he was prepared to keep up with the reading, studying, mid-terms, final exams of college and will have his undergrad degree in the spring.

We have a neighbor who is a sophomore in public HS and her school day is over at noon. NOON for a 10th grader. It's mind-boggling.

[Anonymous]

St. Anselm’s starts in 6th grade…

[Anonymous]

I went to Catholic K-8, then started at a highly-regarded public high school in their IB program. My parents transferred me after one semester because I never once brought a book home for homework or to study and got straight As.

My kids attended Catholic school for three years before we transferred them to an independent school. We didn’t like the Catholic school for many reasons, but it was academically rigorous. The school took a kill and drill approach, with lots of worksheets, memorization, tons of homework. It was not well-rounded and students could get by with rote memorization vs. critical thinking, but it was rigorous. They also had zero tolerance for behavior problems. While it wasn’t for us, I can definitely see why parents would prefer it to public school and I would have kept my kids there had public been our only alternative.

[Anonymous]

Any Private is better than Public. Catholic or not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any Private is better than Public. Catholic or not.

100%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any Private is better than Public. Catholic or not.

no way, not *any*, not those evangelical ones that teach creationism

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:True story. A friend of mine whose daughter attended MCPS through HS is now at Towson University. She is struggling because she doesn't know how to study. Because she never had exposure to mid term or final exams, she is having to learn how to study and is considering dropping a class or two. This is so sad.

Also, she was an honor student in HS FWIW.

True story, lots of MCPS kids go to top colleges, and they know how to study, and get good grades there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any Private is better than Public. Catholic or not.

100%

So arrogant and ignorant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:True story. A friend of mine whose daughter attended MCPS through HS is now at Towson University. She is struggling because she doesn't know how to study. Because she never had exposure to mid term or final exams, she is having to learn how to study and is considering dropping a class or two. This is so sad.

Also, she was an honor student in HS FWIW.

tbf.. "honors" classes mean nothing in some school districts. If she was really an "honor" student, she would not be at Towson. Just saying.

My DC is at UMD, and doing really really well, CS major. Straight As on midterms so far. Product of MCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any Private is better than Public. Catholic or not.

100%

What a bigoted and patently untrue statement. What’s your beef with Catholics?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:True story. A friend of mine whose daughter attended MCPS through HS is now at Towson University. She is struggling because she doesn't know how to study. Because she never had exposure to mid term or final exams, she is having to learn how to study and is considering dropping a class or two. This is so sad.

Also, she was an honor student in HS FWIW.

True story, lots of MCPS kids go to top colleges, and they know how to study, and get good grades there.

I am talking about average kids here, not the ones who are going to magnets and W schools. Students who never take an AP class don't get exposure to cumulative testing experiences. There are lots of these kids, and if they can't succeed at a school like Towson, that is not a good look on MCPS. Sorry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:True story. A friend of mine whose daughter attended MCPS through HS is now at Towson University. She is struggling because she doesn't know how to study. Because she never had exposure to mid term or final exams, she is having to learn how to study and is considering dropping a class or two. This is so sad.

Also, she was an honor student in HS FWIW.

tbf.. "honors" classes mean nothing in some school districts. If she was really an "honor" student, she would not be at Towson. Just saying.

My DC is at UMD, and doing really really well, CS major. Straight As on midterms so far. Product of MCPS.

Getting straight As is VERY easy at MCPS. A 79% in Q1 and 89% in Q2 equals an A for the semester. Just saying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:True story. A friend of mine whose daughter attended MCPS through HS is now at Towson University. She is struggling because she doesn't know how to study. Because she never had exposure to mid term or final exams, she is having to learn how to study and is considering dropping a class or two. This is so sad.

Also, she was an honor student in HS FWIW.

tbf.. "honors" classes mean nothing in some school districts. If she was really an "honor" student, she would not be at Towson. Just saying.

My DC is at UMD, and doing really really well, CS major. Straight As on midterms so far. Product of MCPS.

Getting straight As is VERY easy at MCPS. A 79% in Q1 and 89% in Q2 equals an A for the semester. Just saying.

pp here.. yes, that's true. Still doesn't stop lots of MCPS kids getting into great schools and doing well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:True story. A friend of mine whose daughter attended MCPS through HS is now at Towson University. She is struggling because she doesn't know how to study. Because she never had exposure to mid term or final exams, she is having to learn how to study and is considering dropping a class or two. This is so sad.

Also, she was an honor student in HS FWIW.

True story, lots of MCPS kids go to top colleges, and they know how to study, and get good grades there.

I am talking about average kids here, not the ones who are going to magnets and W schools. Students who never take an AP class don't get exposure to cumulative testing experiences. There are lots of these kids, and if they can't succeed at a school like Towson, that is not a good look on MCPS. Sorry.

I know it's shocking but there are actually kids outside of magnet and W schools that do go to great colleges.