Catholic schools rigor?
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Anonymous
| OP, you know some of the best teachers/ programs for education are the Jesuits, correct? |
Anonymous
Never said all public schools were a dumpster fire...just most. And again, not Catholic. Actually schooled in a pretty bad public school in the northeast and never got past community college. |
Anonymous
PP here: No, of course that is wrong too. I am not one of those. My kids have attended both DCPS and Catholic, and in a prior post, I stated that I liked them both for different reasons. But even though some parents do lump all publics together, you recognize that that is ridiculous and not OK, but then you do the same with other schools. Two wrongs don't make a right. We can be responsible in our own posts. We can't control everyone else, but we can prevent ourselves from adding to the fake noise. |
Anonymous
Really? Name one. |
Anonymous
"Because of its Presbyterian roots, Princeton did not really welcome “papists” until the early years of the twentieth century. Today, Catholics make up 20 to 25 percent of the student body, or roughly 1,200 students, and are the largest single religious group on campus." https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/catholicism-campus#:~:text=Because%20of%20its%20Presbyterian%20roots,single%20religious%20group%20on%20campus. |
Anonymous
Do you realize that many Catholics don’t go to Catholic school, right? |
Anonymous
Catholics are also a plurality at Yale and Harvard. |
Anonymous
PP here. Princeton reports that 13 percent of the Class of 2026 attended “religious affiliated” high schools, the majority of which presumably were Catholic. Another 17 percent attended independent day schools and 9 percent attended boarding schools. Sixty percent attended public schools. So it appears that both public and Catholic school graduates are underrepresented at Princeton, but public schools are the most poorly represented of them all. |
Anonymous
This is the most insightful comment of all. When I attend the weekly school Mass at my kids' elementary, I am always impressed by how quiet and still they are, particularly before Mass begins. And of course, the readers and altar severs are students. They are taking on speaking and leadership roles in front of hundreds of their peers. And similar opportunities are availed to students every day. |
Anonymous
I’ll refer you to the PP at 18:31 and agree with that PP that your statement is stupid and uninformed. |
Anonymous
College bound public school students are not underrepresented. You are counting public school graduates who are going to trade school, the military, starting to work right away. Plus the unlucky students who went to a poor public school with no access to anything but bare bone basics. Private schools are pretty much for students who are going to college. |
Anonymous
We don’t care about New York City. This is about the DMV. |
Anonymous
Why would you presume the majority of religious schools were Catholic? I wouldn’t be so sure. Just in DC alone, the top private schools are religious affiliated but also non-Catholic (St. Albans, National Cathedral School and Sidwell Friends). |
Anonymous
+1. Most Catholic schools use tried-and-true teaching methods, rather than whichever educational fad is happening now. So most stuck with Phonics, avoiding the WholeLanguage / Balanced Literacy approach (which did not work for most students). More likely to have regular homework, use workbooks integrated with the curriculum, etc. |
Anonymous
Less than 13 percent of high schoolers in America graduate from Catholic schools but 13 percent of Princeton students hail from them, so they are over represented. I went to Dartmouth, after 12 years of Catholic school, and found a ton of peers there from Catholic school. Like a previous poster said many of my classmates chose top Catholic colleges rather than applying to the Ivy League. |