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[quote=Anonymous]I wouldn’t say you should go to Catholic hoping for the type of creativity that some schools (and public gifted programs) market, but you also hopefully won’t get just rote memorization. You probably still will get worksheets though who knows the #. What you will get likely is more structure, more direct instruction, hopefully more explicit writing instruction, etc. Bc privates don’t do as much standardized testing, my experience is they allow for more project type assignments that are good outlets for creativity, like school plays, old fashioned book report + dioramas, etc. that are now hit or miss in public post NCLB. But you’re not going to get say, more progressive education, which is fine with us. Public is supposed to be more progressive (vs traditional style Ed, like Catholic or classical) but it just felt watered down for us when we were in public. Would rather have more structure, done well, vs my kid put on a laptop with too much free choice. [/quote]
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