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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The writing and critical thinking skills taught at a good private HS are vastly better. I don’t agree that college freshmen catch up after a semester. For me, it has took years if independent reading to know the literary and historical and philosophical references that my kids already know. (I went to a mediocre public HS and had a pre professional college major.) I also think that peer group matters, and that kids at private high schools have many more opportunities for extracurricular leadership. [/quote]

So you're proud your kids can throw around philosophical references that they probably don't actually understand? Or are your kids actually reading real philosophy in high school? I can't imagine how miserable and unintelligible reading Kant or Hegel would been in high school and I was a philosophy major. [/quote]

NP: Philosophy is a big part of Catholic high school religion classes, and also at schools where Latin is required. But they won't be reading Kant and Hegel because it's high school, not a college philosophy major. But yes, my kids understand the philosophers they are reading, discussing, debating, comparing, and learning about.[/quote]

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