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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those of you with kids in big co-ed Catholic schools—how do you see them as different from public schools? Assuming both have large student bodies and offer the same kinds of activities, and your child is doing great academically either way… why choose the private (and pricey) route if you're not specifically seeking a religious focus? What do you feel you get from it?

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My local public school sucks, and my son needs a safe and rigorous environment to succeed. He wants to see girls, so that put DeMatha and Gonzaga out of the running. I don’t have the cash for Bullis or Maret, so SJC was a nice sweet spot, and I got ample aid.[/quote]

St John's is very similar to public. More strict. But similar in all other ways.[/quote]
Wow I’m looking at it for my daughter are fights regular?[/quote]

Pp idea of public is from the 50s. They don’t understand the locked bathrooms, fights, kids constantly on phones, and ginormous class size. [/quote]
+1[/quote]

The 50s? This was not a problem in my public schools in the 2000s. Have things fallen so quickly or is this DCUM hyperbole? [/quote]

I think things haven’t been great since about 2005-2007, but things really went downhill on the late teens, and then again during/post COVID. I can’t imagine things getting better, with all the kids now coming up in elementary school having been out of preschool and early elementary during Covid. Plus all the babies now I see on screens. It’s a mess we cannot claw back from, and I am opting out for my kid [/quote]

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