Leave a “strong” public ES for Catholic?

[Anonymous]

Another MCPS teacher here who sends her kid to Catholic school. I am 12 years in and public is just getting worse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another MCPS teacher here who sends her kid to Catholic school. I am 12 years in and public is just getting worse.

Do you mind giving some example of how is getting worse? Thank you!

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Anonymous wrote:You have to make your own choice. But know at Catholic schools, how the school "embraces other religions" is to show how they're inferior but still worthy of studying.

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We would never do Catholic, instead we provide other enriching activities through family vacations, an au pair who takes the kids after school 3 x a week (on trips to museums, or other activities), summer camp experiences and spring break trips to a diff state each year.

Education starts at home, it does not begin in school.

We don't want our children to only think in a linear way.

Seems only one who is thinking "in a linear way" is the PP, who claims they would "never do Catholic" when they clearly know nothing about Catholic schools.

Perhaps I should clarify that no religious schools would be okay for us. You are your child's first teacher, education and learning does not take place in a corporate structure. It takes place at home.

You do you. We like having the reinforcement of religion in the classroom. It actually expands their education beyond a public school experience where religion can never be discussed. Those kids are missing out and getting the type of education that might make THEM think in a linear way. My kids learned about all religions, not just Catholicism. Sadly not allowed in public schools.

Catholic school works great if you're Catholic. Not so much if you aren't.

Catholic school did not work great for the Catholic I know best. (Spouse, who attended a parish ES we refer to around here as Our Lady of Perpetual Agony.)

What was the highest level of education, current job title, and salary?

I don’t know anyone from my catholic elementary school class who didn’t go onto grad school. Everyone is doing well.

If you meant to say catholic school is challenging and not warm and fuzzy, I agree. I think that’s why we succeed: because they push us to.

Is this a gotcha question? You’re asking about a person who has lifelong complex PTSD from the sexual abuse he experienced at OLPA— and from the relationship between the school, the religion he was raised in, and his family as mutually reinforcing purveyors of the same gaslighting about how everything professional religious did was OK.

None of the metrics really worked out the way you’re hoping they would have.

I’m glad you (like he) went to grad school though, I guess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We can afford the 9K tuition (with FA) but it’s still extra money we could save if we do public. However, we see so many academic benefits from Catholic in addition to the lovely close knit community, smaller teacher/student ratio and how the school embraces other religions (despite teaching from the Catholic perspective of course). Public would be considered by many a “strong” one but class sizes are in the large side. Feeling “guilty” about oaring tuition while having a “good” public in neighborhood..but is it “good” for real…

Only if you are okay with the dogma taking up 15% of their time

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Anonymous wrote:Another MCPS teacher here who sends her kid to Catholic school. I am 12 years in and public is just getting worse.

Do you mind giving some example of how is getting worse? Thank you!

I could, but it's tough to make this stuff up, so I'll just leave it to your imagination.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We can afford the 9K tuition (with FA) but it’s still extra money we could save if we do public. However, we see so many academic benefits from Catholic in addition to the lovely close knit community, smaller teacher/student ratio and how the school embraces other religions (despite teaching from the Catholic perspective of course). Public would be considered by many a “strong” one but class sizes are in the large side. Feeling “guilty” about oaring tuition while having a “good” public in neighborhood..but is it “good” for real…

Only if you are okay with the dogma taking up 15% of their time

My sisters kids went to a catholic. The academics were fine, but not stellar. There were fewer behavioral issues that public, but they did get a lot of pro-life propaganda.