Catholic Schools

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We are considering sending our daughter to a Catholic school for middle school. We had planned on MCPS but are concerned with the subject matter they are focusing on this summer. I have no issue with LGBTQ people or their rights but as a parent, I feel that these types of discussions are my role to frame and discuss at home, not at school, and especially not with preteens. How are the Catholic schools handling these issues?
Also, academically how do they challenge students who need enrichment?

Let's walk through this again

Which is the largest organized Child abuse ring Catholic Church

Please go back to school and get your self parenting books.

Please walk away from this discussion. You said your peace, now some other opinions can be heard.

[Anonymous]

Our kids also go to Catholic School but in NOVA. I would have never dreamed of sending them there since I was pro-public. But was not happy with the lack of focus on academics, research, writing, etc. We are not Catholic and some 40% of the school is also not Catholic.

I did worry that poor messaging would be sent to my kids on gay marriage, etc. But, surprisingly not the case. They are simply being taught to love and support all people. Which in the end is the right message.

I will also comment about being well behaved/non-disruptive. The private school has the luxury of removing/disenrolling students that are disruptive. I have seen this happen with two kids. After multiple attempts, parents being called in, etc. the families were brought in and asked to leave. These kids now go to the public school.

This is the reason why the classrooms tend to be ordered and less chaotic. They have the ability to remove the chaos, a public school does not have that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are considering sending our daughter to a Catholic school for middle school. We had planned on MCPS but are concerned with the subject matter they are focusing on this summer. I have no issue with LGBTQ people or their rights but as a parent, I feel that these types of discussions are my role to frame and discuss at home, not at school, and especially not with preteens. How are the Catholic schools handling these issues?
Also, academically how do they challenge students who need enrichment?

We moved our kids away from FCPS and into Catholic schools for mostly the same reason: a combination of increasingly disorganized and subpar academic instruction and a political focus on kooky left-wing wokeness; the issues are related, as the time/effort/resources that are focused on wokeness detract from the core academics which are supposed to be the focus. We were also uncomfortable with a lot of the political nonsense that has been introduced in schools.

Our children--ranging from young elementary to high school teenagers--are all in Catholic school now, and we are so glad that we made the switch! We could never go back to the government-run-like-the-DMV public school after experiencing a true school community with teachers and a school administration that are responsive to parents and actually focused on education. The main difference is the basic approach of Catholic schools wherein they say "Parents are the primary educators of their children; we partner with parents to educate their children." To the extent that non-academic issues are discussed at all, it's all based on basic Christian values and all very age appropriate. Of course, it also helps that disruptive and disrespectful students are not tolerated, which makes for a safer and more enjoyable learning experience for all. We have also been relieved that the Catholic schools in this area use much less "electronic babysitting" (i.e., screen-time) for students and still use textbooks rather than sending students online for everything like we were seeing in public school.

For the record, my wife and I both grew up attending public school, and neither one of us thought that our children would ever attend private school. But honestly, the Catholic schools of 2022 remind me of what public school back in the 1980s/1990s used to be like -- a focus on academics, no political indoctrination in school, and a respect for parents when it came to teaching values.

It's a bit late in the summer to try to make the switch --- back when we switched, we had to really work hard to find schools with openings. Good luck with your decision and I hope it works out for you.

I say this all the time. I also never thought I’d send my kids to catholic school when we moved back to NoVA. But they were the best choice in the last couple of locations we had lived in, so we decided to keep it up when we came here. I’m so grateful we did. It is much more similar to the education I got than what they’d get otherwise.

I went to Catholic schools in the 70s and 80s from first to twelfth grades. I stopped going to church in my 20s and never thought I would send my kids to Catholic schools. But slowly as an adult I realized the importance of the values instilled and the strength of the education I received. I've come full circle and now I'm all in on Catholic schools for my son.

That’s great and amazing!

But if you are going to start attending our Catholic schools and raise a fuss over respecting gay students, expecting gender norms in dress/hair, honoring pronouns and being supportive over students transitioning then please don’t apply.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are considering sending our daughter to a Catholic school for middle school. We had planned on MCPS but are concerned with the subject matter they are focusing on this summer. I have no issue with LGBTQ people or their rights but as a parent, I feel that these types of discussions are my role to frame and discuss at home, not at school, and especially not with preteens. How are the Catholic schools handling these issues?
Also, academically how do they challenge students who need enrichment?

We moved our kids away from FCPS and into Catholic schools for mostly the same reason: a combination of increasingly disorganized and subpar academic instruction and a political focus on kooky left-wing wokeness; the issues are related, as the time/effort/resources that are focused on wokeness detract from the core academics which are supposed to be the focus. We were also uncomfortable with a lot of the political nonsense that has been introduced in schools.

Our children--ranging from young elementary to high school teenagers--are all in Catholic school now, and we are so glad that we made the switch! We could never go back to the government-run-like-the-DMV public school after experiencing a true school community with teachers and a school administration that are responsive to parents and actually focused on education. The main difference is the basic approach of Catholic schools wherein they say "Parents are the primary educators of their children; we partner with parents to educate their children." To the extent that non-academic issues are discussed at all, it's all based on basic Christian values and all very age appropriate. Of course, it also helps that disruptive and disrespectful students are not tolerated, which makes for a safer and more enjoyable learning experience for all. We have also been relieved that the Catholic schools in this area use much less "electronic babysitting" (i.e., screen-time) for students and still use textbooks rather than sending students online for everything like we were seeing in public school.

For the record, my wife and I both grew up attending public school, and neither one of us thought that our children would ever attend private school. But honestly, the Catholic schools of 2022 remind me of what public school back in the 1980s/1990s used to be like -- a focus on academics, no political indoctrination in school, and a respect for parents when it came to teaching values.

It's a bit late in the summer to try to make the switch --- back when we switched, we had to really work hard to find schools with openings. Good luck with your decision and I hope it works out for you.

I say this all the time. I also never thought I’d send my kids to catholic school when we moved back to NoVA. But they were the best choice in the last couple of locations we had lived in, so we decided to keep it up when we came here. I’m so grateful we did. It is much more similar to the education I got than what they’d get otherwise.

I went to Catholic schools in the 70s and 80s from first to twelfth grades. I stopped going to church in my 20s and never thought I would send my kids to Catholic schools. But slowly as an adult I realized the importance of the values instilled and the strength of the education I received. I've come full circle and now I'm all in on Catholic schools for my son.

That’s great and amazing!

But if you are going to start attending our Catholic schools and raise a fuss over respecting gay students, expecting gender norms in dress/hair, honoring pronouns and being supportive over students transitioning then please don’t apply.

The majority of the local parochial K-8s would be closing, due to lack of enrollment, if all families were required to believe in what you have stated.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are considering sending our daughter to a Catholic school for middle school. We had planned on MCPS but are concerned with the subject matter they are focusing on this summer. I have no issue with LGBTQ people or their rights but as a parent, I feel that these types of discussions are my role to frame and discuss at home, not at school, and especially not with preteens. How are the Catholic schools handling these issues?
Also, academically how do they challenge students who need enrichment?

We moved our kids away from FCPS and into Catholic schools for mostly the same reason: a combination of increasingly disorganized and subpar academic instruction and a political focus on kooky left-wing wokeness; the issues are related, as the time/effort/resources that are focused on wokeness detract from the core academics which are supposed to be the focus. We were also uncomfortable with a lot of the political nonsense that has been introduced in schools.

Our children--ranging from young elementary to high school teenagers--are all in Catholic school now, and we are so glad that we made the switch! We could never go back to the government-run-like-the-DMV public school after experiencing a true school community with teachers and a school administration that are responsive to parents and actually focused on education. The main difference is the basic approach of Catholic schools wherein they say "Parents are the primary educators of their children; we partner with parents to educate their children." To the extent that non-academic issues are discussed at all, it's all based on basic Christian values and all very age appropriate. Of course, it also helps that disruptive and disrespectful students are not tolerated, which makes for a safer and more enjoyable learning experience for all. We have also been relieved that the Catholic schools in this area use much less "electronic babysitting" (i.e., screen-time) for students and still use textbooks rather than sending students online for everything like we were seeing in public school.

For the record, my wife and I both grew up attending public school, and neither one of us thought that our children would ever attend private school. But honestly, the Catholic schools of 2022 remind me of what public school back in the 1980s/1990s used to be like -- a focus on academics, no political indoctrination in school, and a respect for parents when it came to teaching values.

It's a bit late in the summer to try to make the switch --- back when we switched, we had to really work hard to find schools with openings. Good luck with your decision and I hope it works out for you.

I say this all the time. I also never thought I’d send my kids to catholic school when we moved back to NoVA. But they were the best choice in the last couple of locations we had lived in, so we decided to keep it up when we came here. I’m so grateful we did. It is much more similar to the education I got than what they’d get otherwise.

I went to Catholic schools in the 70s and 80s from first to twelfth grades. I stopped going to church in my 20s and never thought I would send my kids to Catholic schools. But slowly as an adult I realized the importance of the values instilled and the strength of the education I received. I've come full circle and now I'm all in on Catholic schools for my son.

That’s great and amazing!

But if you are going to start attending our Catholic schools and raise a fuss over respecting gay students, expecting gender norms in dress/hair, honoring pronouns and being supportive over students transitioning then please don’t apply.

The majority of the local parochial K-8s would be closing, due to lack of enrollment, if all families were required to believe in what you have stated.

Nope! Real Catholics love their neighbor!

Teachers are living with people and are not married, some are divorced, some are married to non-Catholics, Some are gay.

Kids are gay and are and living in homes with divorced parents remarried not annulled.

Welcome to 2022!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are considering sending our daughter to a Catholic school for middle school. We had planned on MCPS but are concerned with the subject matter they are focusing on this summer. I have no issue with LGBTQ people or their rights but as a parent, I feel that these types of discussions are my role to frame and discuss at home, not at school, and especially not with preteens. How are the Catholic schools handling these issues?
Also, academically how do they challenge students who need enrichment?

We moved our kids away from FCPS and into Catholic schools for mostly the same reason: a combination of increasingly disorganized and subpar academic instruction and a political focus on kooky left-wing wokeness; the issues are related, as the time/effort/resources that are focused on wokeness detract from the core academics which are supposed to be the focus. We were also uncomfortable with a lot of the political nonsense that has been introduced in schools.

Our children--ranging from young elementary to high school teenagers--are all in Catholic school now, and we are so glad that we made the switch! We could never go back to the government-run-like-the-DMV public school after experiencing a true school community with teachers and a school administration that are responsive to parents and actually focused on education. The main difference is the basic approach of Catholic schools wherein they say "Parents are the primary educators of their children; we partner with parents to educate their children." To the extent that non-academic issues are discussed at all, it's all based on basic Christian values and all very age appropriate. Of course, it also helps that disruptive and disrespectful students are not tolerated, which makes for a safer and more enjoyable learning experience for all. We have also been relieved that the Catholic schools in this area use much less "electronic babysitting" (i.e., screen-time) for students and still use textbooks rather than sending students online for everything like we were seeing in public school.

For the record, my wife and I both grew up attending public school, and neither one of us thought that our children would ever attend private school. But honestly, the Catholic schools of 2022 remind me of what public school back in the 1980s/1990s used to be like -- a focus on academics, no political indoctrination in school, and a respect for parents when it came to teaching values.

It's a bit late in the summer to try to make the switch --- back when we switched, we had to really work hard to find schools with openings. Good luck with your decision and I hope it works out for you.

I say this all the time. I also never thought I’d send my kids to catholic school when we moved back to NoVA. But they were the best choice in the last couple of locations we had lived in, so we decided to keep it up when we came here. I’m so grateful we did. It is much more similar to the education I got than what they’d get otherwise.

I went to Catholic schools in the 70s and 80s from first to twelfth grades. I stopped going to church in my 20s and never thought I would send my kids to Catholic schools. But slowly as an adult I realized the importance of the values instilled and the strength of the education I received. I've come full circle and now I'm all in on Catholic schools for my son.

That’s great and amazing!

But if you are going to start attending our Catholic schools and raise a fuss over respecting gay students, expecting gender norms in dress/hair, honoring pronouns and being supportive over students transitioning then please don’t apply.

The majority of the local parochial K-8s would be closing, due to lack of enrollment, if all families were required to believe in what you have stated.

Nope! Real Catholics love their neighbor!

Teachers are living with people and are not married, some are divorced, some are married to non-Catholics, Some are gay.

Kids are gay and are and living in homes with divorced parents remarried not annulled.

Welcome to 2022!

I think you misunderstood PP’s message. I think he/she was saying similar to you by responding to another post.

[Anonymous]

The cat is out of the bag! Everyone is aware of the damage and gender disphoria being PERPETUATED by MCPS and DCPS. The anti-Catholic bashers and overly outspoken pro-lgbtqia+ On these threads are paid activist trolls out to drown out average citizen’s voices and silence “dissenters” of the progressive agenda. Please ignore all of these comments and focus on the OP’s question and they will move on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The cat is out of the bag! Everyone is aware of the damage and gender disphoria being PERPETUATED by MCPS and DCPS. The anti-Catholic bashers and overly outspoken pro-lgbtqia+ On these threads are paid activist trolls out to drown out average citizen’s voices and silence “dissenters” of the progressive agenda. Please ignore all of these comments and focus on the OP’s question and they will move on.

No we just don’t want lunatic bigots at our Catholic schools, stick to The Heights.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:my god. The Catholic Church, maybe more than any other institution, could tell you something about grooming. And my kids are in Catholic school, but ops premise is laughable, considering the Catholic church’s track record.

Public schools have an exponentially higher rate of child sexual abuse than the Catholic Church.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:my god. The Catholic Church, maybe more than any other institution, could tell you something about grooming. And my kids are in Catholic school, but ops premise is laughable, considering the Catholic church’s track record.

Public schools have an exponentially higher rate of child sexual abuse than the Catholic Church.

No not higher but still high.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The cat is out of the bag! Everyone is aware of the damage and gender disphoria being PERPETUATED by MCPS and DCPS. The anti-Catholic bashers and overly outspoken pro-lgbtqia+ On these threads are paid activist trolls out to drown out average citizen’s voices and silence “dissenters” of the progressive agenda. Please ignore all of these comments and focus on the OP’s question and they will move on.

You do know the Catholic school communities are made up of both progressives and conservatives, right?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The cat is out of the bag! Everyone is aware of the damage and gender disphoria being PERPETUATED by MCPS and DCPS. The anti-Catholic bashers and overly outspoken pro-lgbtqia+ On these threads are paid activist trolls out to drown out average citizen’s voices and silence “dissenters” of the progressive agenda. Please ignore all of these comments and focus on the OP’s question and they will move on.

You do know the Catholic school communities are made up of both progressives and conservatives, right?

And the apolitical…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The cat is out of the bag! Everyone is aware of the damage and gender disphoria being PERPETUATED by MCPS and DCPS. The anti-Catholic bashers and overly outspoken pro-lgbtqia+ On these threads are paid activist trolls out to drown out average citizen’s voices and silence “dissenters” of the progressive agenda. Please ignore all of these comments and focus on the OP’s question and they will move on.

No we just don’t want lunatic bigots at our Catholic schools, stick to The Heights.

Nothing like calling someone a bigot when you are a bigot.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We are considering sending our daughter to a Catholic school for middle school. We had planned on MCPS but are concerned with the subject matter they are focusing on this summer. I have no issue with LGBTQ people or their rights but as a parent, I feel that these types of discussions are my role to frame and discuss at home, not at school, and especially not with preteens. How are the Catholic schools handling these issues?
Also, academically how do they challenge students who need enrichment?

We moved our kids away from FCPS and into Catholic schools for mostly the same reason: a combination of increasingly disorganized and subpar academic instruction and a political focus on kooky left-wing wokeness; the issues are related, as the time/effort/resources that are focused on wokeness detract from the core academics which are supposed to be the focus. We were also uncomfortable with a lot of the political nonsense that has been introduced in schools.

Our children--ranging from young elementary to high school teenagers--are all in Catholic school now, and we are so glad that we made the switch! We could never go back to the government-run-like-the-DMV public school after experiencing a true school community with teachers and a school administration that are responsive to parents and actually focused on education. The main difference is the basic approach of Catholic schools wherein they say "Parents are the primary educators of their children; we partner with parents to educate their children." To the extent that non-academic issues are discussed at all, it's all based on basic Christian values and all very age appropriate. Of course, it also helps that disruptive and disrespectful students are not tolerated, which makes for a safer and more enjoyable learning experience for all. We have also been relieved that the Catholic schools in this area use much less "electronic babysitting" (i.e., screen-time) for students and still use textbooks rather than sending students online for everything like we were seeing in public school.

For the record, my wife and I both grew up attending public school, and neither one of us thought that our children would ever attend private school. But honestly, the Catholic schools of 2022 remind me of what public school back in the 1980s/1990s used to be like -- a focus on academics, no political indoctrination in school, and a respect for parents when it came to teaching values.

It's a bit late in the summer to try to make the switch --- back when we switched, we had to really work hard to find schools with openings. Good luck with your decision and I hope it works out for you.

I say this all the time. I also never thought I’d send my kids to catholic school when we moved back to NoVA. But they were the best choice in the last couple of locations we had lived in, so we decided to keep it up when we came here. I’m so grateful we did. It is much more similar to the education I got than what they’d get otherwise.

I went to Catholic schools in the 70s and 80s from first to twelfth grades. I stopped going to church in my 20s and never thought I would send my kids to Catholic schools. But slowly as an adult I realized the importance of the values instilled and the strength of the education I received. I've come full circle and now I'm all in on Catholic schools for my son.

That’s great and amazing!

But if you are going to start attending our Catholic schools and raise a fuss over respecting gay students, expecting gender norms in dress/hair, honoring pronouns and being supportive over students transitioning then please don’t apply.

The majority of the local parochial K-8s would be closing, due to lack of enrollment, if all families were required to believe in what you have stated.

Nope! Real Catholics love their neighbor!

Teachers are living with people and are not married, some are divorced, some are married to non-Catholics, Some are gay.

Kids are gay and are and living in homes with divorced parents remarried not annulled.

Welcome to 2022!

I personally know of three separate cases where educators were fired because they were either gay or unmarried & pregnant. Nothing says pro-life like firing an unmarried pregnant teacher and terminating her only source of income. The teachers are required to sign contracts confirming that they will abide by all Catholic values. Any teacher open about living with a partner, undergoing IVF or being gay will be subjected to a witch hunt.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We are considering sending our daughter to a Catholic school for middle school. We had planned on MCPS but are concerned with the subject matter they are focusing on this summer. I have no issue with LGBTQ people or their rights but as a parent, I feel that these types of discussions are my role to frame and discuss at home, not at school, and especially not with preteens. How are the Catholic schools handling these issues?
Also, academically how do they challenge students who need enrichment?

We moved our kids away from FCPS and into Catholic schools for mostly the same reason: a combination of increasingly disorganized and subpar academic instruction and a political focus on kooky left-wing wokeness; the issues are related, as the time/effort/resources that are focused on wokeness detract from the core academics which are supposed to be the focus. We were also uncomfortable with a lot of the political nonsense that has been introduced in schools.

Our children--ranging from young elementary to high school teenagers--are all in Catholic school now, and we are so glad that we made the switch! We could never go back to the government-run-like-the-DMV public school after experiencing a true school community with teachers and a school administration that are responsive to parents and actually focused on education. The main difference is the basic approach of Catholic schools wherein they say "Parents are the primary educators of their children; we partner with parents to educate their children." To the extent that non-academic issues are discussed at all, it's all based on basic Christian values and all very age appropriate. Of course, it also helps that disruptive and disrespectful students are not tolerated, which makes for a safer and more enjoyable learning experience for all. We have also been relieved that the Catholic schools in this area use much less "electronic babysitting" (i.e., screen-time) for students and still use textbooks rather than sending students online for everything like we were seeing in public school.

For the record, my wife and I both grew up attending public school, and neither one of us thought that our children would ever attend private school. But honestly, the Catholic schools of 2022 remind me of what public school back in the 1980s/1990s used to be like -- a focus on academics, no political indoctrination in school, and a respect for parents when it came to teaching values.

It's a bit late in the summer to try to make the switch --- back when we switched, we had to really work hard to find schools with openings. Good luck with your decision and I hope it works out for you.

I say this all the time. I also never thought I’d send my kids to catholic school when we moved back to NoVA. But they were the best choice in the last couple of locations we had lived in, so we decided to keep it up when we came here. I’m so grateful we did. It is much more similar to the education I got than what they’d get otherwise.

I went to Catholic schools in the 70s and 80s from first to twelfth grades. I stopped going to church in my 20s and never thought I would send my kids to Catholic schools. But slowly as an adult I realized the importance of the values instilled and the strength of the education I received. I've come full circle and now I'm all in on Catholic schools for my son.

That’s great and amazing!

But if you are going to start attending our Catholic schools and raise a fuss over respecting gay students, expecting gender norms in dress/hair, honoring pronouns and being supportive over students transitioning then please don’t apply.

The majority of the local parochial K-8s would be closing, due to lack of enrollment, if all families were required to believe in what you have stated.

Nope! Real Catholics love their neighbor!

Teachers are living with people and are not married, some are divorced, some are married to non-Catholics, Some are gay.

Kids are gay and are and living in homes with divorced parents remarried not annulled.

Welcome to 2022!

I personally know of three separate cases where educators were fired because they were either gay or unmarried & pregnant. Nothing says pro-life like firing an unmarried pregnant teacher and terminating her only source of income. The teachers are required to sign contracts confirming that they will abide by all Catholic values. Any teacher open about living with a partner, undergoing IVF or being gay will be subjected to a witch hunt.

No, not “any.” I can also come up with three anecdotes that counter yours. I know Catholic teachers who are just as human as the rest of us and they have not been fired from their jobs. Their not hiding anything, either.

Not all schools are equal. No anecdote is representative of the whole.

- Catholic school teacher (who is far from perfect)