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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, St. Mary's needs to focus like a laser on academics and on getting and keeping great teachers and administrators.

But weekly mass is obviously not the cause of teacher turnover nor of any math curriculum challenges.

There are always lukewarm or non-Catholics who come to parochial schools for the affordable private education and then start complaining about the religion.

It's bad enough to join something good and try to reshape it away from one of the reasons it's good.  It's like being a bad, subversive guest.

But it's even worse to dishonestly blame the religious aspects they resent for unrelated problems like teacher turnover.

There is a grain of truth here, though, which is that the school leadership may not have their "hair on fire" as much as they should about the turnover and teaching issues, because they feel good about how things are going with their faith formation mission.  They should feel good about that, but they also should be working very hard to hire and retain the best teachers and administrators they possibly can.    [/quote]

These are great comments.

St. Louis also has mass once per week. I think it would be hard to find a parochial that doesn’t. That’s part of the deal with a Catholic school and why most people send their kids there. I don’t think it impacts the academics at all.

St. Mary’s and St. Louis are both good choices. Sounds like BSSM may be having a rough patch, but really, there are no perfect schools in the Greater Alexandria area. You just pick the one that’s the best fit for your family overall. 
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