Catholic Schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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 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)

Oops. *They’re
I should have caught that.

[Anonymous]

I taught at a MoCo Catholic school years ago and can say this is 1000% true.

Anonymous wrote:

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 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]

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.

This has been almost exactly our family's experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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 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.

Not in the archdiocese of Washington. This is our community and we are not wack jobs like FLA and parts of VA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I taught at a MoCo Catholic school years ago and can say this is 1000% true.

Anonymous wrote:

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 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.

Years ago, like when Prep was harboring a rapist teacher.

Okay we don’t want to go back to “years ago”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

You can’t be a bigot against bigots, and you can’t say I’m bigoted against Catholics because the Heights is no longer Catholic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

You can’t be a bigot against bigots, and you can’t say I’m bigoted against Catholics because the Heights is no longer Catholic.

What? Signed a liberal Catholic.

[Anonymous]

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.

Perfectly said. Especially about parents being through primary educators.

[Anonymous]

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.

Perfectly said. Especially about parents being through primary educators.

Do the local Catholic schools still teach penmanship/cursive? Most DC area public schools eliminated cursive or spend no more than a day or two on it. I’m interested in schools that still place emphasis on penmanship, if such a school exists in this day and age.

[Anonymous]

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.

Perfectly said. Especially about parents being through primary educators.

Do the local Catholic schools still teach penmanship/cursive? Most DC area public schools eliminated cursive or spend no more than a day or two on it. I’m interested in schools that still place emphasis on penmanship, if such a school exists in this day and age.

My daughter learned cursive in 2nd grade. She’s encouraged to use it, but prefers printing. I am hopeful she’s use cursive as the “good to” but so far isn’t so.

[Anonymous]

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.

Perfectly said. Especially about parents being through primary educators.

Do the local Catholic schools still teach penmanship/cursive? Most DC area public schools eliminated cursive or spend no more than a day or two on it. I’m interested in schools that still place emphasis on penmanship, if such a school exists in this day and age.

Our Catholic school still puts an an emphasis on it. My daughter was required to write essays in 4th grade using cursive. She's entering 9th grade now, so I don't know if that is still the case. FWIW, her handwriting is terrible, so I don't know what she actually got out of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

You can’t be a bigot against bigots, and you can’t say I’m bigoted against Catholics because the Heights is no longer Catholic.

How much have you been drinking?

[Anonymous]

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.

Perfectly said. Especially about parents being through primary educators.

Do the local Catholic schools still teach penmanship/cursive? Most DC area public schools eliminated cursive or spend no more than a day or two on it. I’m interested in schools that still place emphasis on penmanship, if such a school exists in this day and age.

Our Catholic school still puts an an emphasis on it. My daughter was required to write essays in 4th grade using cursive. She's entering 9th grade now, so I don't know if that is still the case. FWIW, her handwriting is terrible, so I don't know what she actually got out of it.

This is similar to my kids’ Catholic school. They learned cursive in 3rd and were writing essays by 5th. (These were standard 5 paragraph essays with short paragraphs.)

[Anonymous]

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.

This has been almost exactly our family's experience.

BS

Let's see Catholic schools have nothing on public schools in terms of Math and Science.

[Anonymous]

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.

Perfectly said. Especially about parents being through primary educators.

Really so you want parents teaching Chem, calculus, advanced maths and science you are an idiot

Catholic schools are for indoctrination fact. You want your Christian values fine absolutely fine. However, do not ever think a Catholic School is better than public, especially with parent input.

Tell us the truth your kids are there because you support racism fact.