Why no ADW/reasonable Catholic HS?

[Anonymous]

Teachers have to get paid. And private schools still pay much less than mcps.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: OP has triggered that anti SJC poster. So predictable.

To answer OP's original question though -- ADW wasn't established until 1939. By then many of the independent Catholic schools had been around for 100+ years. The history is actually quite fascinating.

There is a ton of choice at all price points in our area which isn't the case in the rest of the country.

Fwiw I hope you don’t think I’m anti-SJC just because I’m sharing facts about how student athletes are imported and housed by other SJC families…and all the full pay families collectively subsidize such things.

How would I know this if I didn’t have kids affiliated with the school?

Not a hater. Just a catholic mom who finds some of the choices made by SJC, GC, and other catholic schools interesting. Prioritizing athletes and non-Catholics for the limited seats in area catholic high schools is an interesting decision imho. YMMV

There are not "limited seats" in DMV Catholic high shcools. There are actually more high school seats than Catholic school 8th graders. Perhaps a given student didn't get into exactly the school they wanted, but there absolutely are enough seats at Catholic schools if you are prioritizing a Catholc high school education.

[Anonymous]

Catholics, Seventh-Day Adventists, and the Amish have solved relatively cheap K-8 education. Mormons have figured out how to provide cheap college.

But running inexpensive in-person high schools are very hard. I can only think of three types: part time schools (e.g. University-Model affiliates, a local representative being Coventry Christian in Warrenton, which has students meet three days a week), large home school co-ops (e.g. Classical Cottage Consortium in Winchester, where students meet 1-2 days a week), and just sending your high school-aged kids to the local community college.