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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They have shorter school years and longer recesses. How do they manage to get through their curriculum? Or are they behind public school?[/quote]

They assign a lot of homework. I teach in a public school and all of the reading in my middle school class is done in school. I either read the texts aloud or play an audiobook. If students took texts home to read, not only would they not read them, they wouldn't bring them back. Very few students do the assigned homework. Most can't read on grade level either. My middle school son goes to a Catholic middle school. He has assigned reading each night plus vocabulary. Every other night he has writing and grammar too. [/quote]

Hahahahahha! My child is at Catholic too and that’s not happening. And it’s not parochial which are notoriously bad. He got more in public, you must have had a very, very bad public. [/quote]

NP here. My experience is the opposite. I worked in a public school that spent 15% of the school year on mandated tests (I counted) and had a policy against assigning homework. I now work in a Catholic school that only mandates 3 days of tests a year and encourages meaningful homework. Perhaps we can’t compare ALL public schools to ALL parochial schools. Perhaps we should judge each school on its own merits.

As for how my specific Catholic school gets through material, I believe we are able to make very good use of each school day. Each grade level team scrutinizes the weekly plan to make sure we aren’t straying from standards we are trying to meet. Every activity is targeted and we supplement with strategic at-home assignments. [/quote]

There isn’t a no homework policy here in public school so that is not relevant. [/quote]

I disagree. I wrote that each school should be based on its own policies / merits, so it is useless to compare “all” publics versus “all” parochials. As one example I used a public with a no-homework policy in which I used to teach. We wasted a TON of time in class through mandated tests and couldn’t supplement at home. That is ONE school, and not an entire district. My current school, a parochial school, has a different set-up that allows for a more strategic use of time. This explains how ONE private school is able to get through a lot of material in fewer days using ONE public merely as a benchmark.[/quote]

Your anecdotal story means nothing. [/quote]

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