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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

NP I have had kids in both public and Catholic middle school.  Public school gives very little homework (MCPS W school).  Maybe 20 minutes.  My daughter, currently in 8th grade Catholic school spends up to 2 hours on homework.  She is much better prepared for HS than my public school son every was.  We did move him to Catholic HS and he had so much catch up to do to and had to learn how to actually write well.  Luckily he had excellent teachers with small class sizes and was able to rise to the occasion.  I don't believe that would have been the case in his W public school.[/quote]

Baloney, this stuff you name is uncreative. It just gets repeated and has no meaning. Excellent teachers-doubt it as privates don’t pay as well and other reasons and you may can’t back up that they are “excellent.” Smaller class size-that’s about the only better thing and meh. Writing well-big fat lie and it’s just the typical reason that just automatically gets repeated. Nothing of substance. These are all just the same tired “reasons” parent try to justify the cost. [/quote]

This poster is so sad.  All of that virtual school and quarantine has gotten to her.  Don't worry PP, your public school will eventually get back to normal.  I know it's tough.[/quote]

That’s the best you got? Really makes you argument sooooo valid. You got me. Been in private since prior to covid. Maybe your dinky little “private” school can 
finally reap some benefit with covid giving it a little bump up. [/quote]

Actually yes!!  Our school did benefit from COVID and then people realized how much better it was there and never went back.  See how that works?[/quote]

Choosing private over public ideas was the lesser of two evils. Not really a good thing.
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