Comparing Catholic Schools in Arlington Diocese
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Anonymous
This. I am not calling the poster cheap, but they do not value Mass. No wonder they feel they are being ripped off. It is like going to a musical and complaining that the singing got in the way. |
Anonymous
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We are not Catholic, but we moved my daughter from public to private for high school. It’s been a great move. Yes, they have mass often, but it’s a Catholic school so it seems par for the course. My daughter is challenged in her classes, feels her teachers are invested, and is happy to go everyday. She found our public school teachers to just be going through the motions, found inconsistency among teachers, and found the school day to be bland and lackluster.
I realize not all public schools are the same, so you really have to compare where you are coming from to where you are going. |
Anonymous
| Regarding MAP scores, there are plenty is schools that release them in ADW |
Anonymous
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Not DMV. Our kids ages 14, 12 and 7 attend Mass three times a week (14 and 7 go to the same K-12 Catholic school and 12 goes to a different Catholic school—neither is a diocesan school in our diocese). They attend Mass at least once week at their schools, we go as a family to 6:30 am every Friday and then out for breakfast before school, and finally on Sunday as a family. One attends an almost zero tech in the classroom school.
Unless you are at a Jesuit school, my experience is that Mass will be an integral part of Catholic education for a student. |
Anonymous
| Do non denominational schools go to church 2x a week? And then expect church attendance on Sundays too? |
Anonymous
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All of the K-8 schools in the Diocese of Arlington use the same curriculum standards. The material being learned at each grade level is the same, but the schools select the curriculum resources to achieve those standards. For example, one school might use envision, another Saxon math, yet another uses Math in Focus, etc.
The number of times the students attend Mass in a week as a school community is most likely a decision of the pastor and the principal. Most K-8 schools in the Arlington Diocese attend Mass once a week, have adoration, and offer confessions weekly. |
Anonymous
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Apparently they value the Super Bowl over academics AND mass. Now they’re taking a day off bc the eagles won the Super Bowl.
The Onion couldn’t make something up so ridiculous. |
Anonymous
Oh, come on. The archbishop has been promising them a day off when the Eagles win the Super Bowl for years and it’s the first time it’s actually happened. Go rain on someone else’s parade. |
Anonymous
Wow. Multiple posts from on at least three different threads yet not one single communication to your principal or the diocese. |
Anonymous
| It’s the honor roll poster. |
Anonymous
| I seem to remember hearing at some point that there is a floater day every year that the Bishop can designate for whatever he wants as a day off for all the schools. There were other 'reasons' in past years, and I think it's built into the number of days. Either way, I hate the Eagles and don't care about this at all, the PP who is obsessed about this needs to chill. |
Anonymous
They have an agenda. |
Anonymous
Aww. How very Catholic of you to point out that your child is innocent and sweet and steeped in the great Catholic Intellectual Traditions while your poor niece is...just kind of dumb and materialistic and a little slutty. Did I get that right? Because it's absolutely your subtext. |