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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Catholics are known for high class sizes. Part of why the tuition is lower[/quote]

It's this and also because they aren't serving as wide variety of needs. It's more of a one size fits all. So they can have more kids, but if your kid needs some special customization they won't get it.[/quote]

This will depend on the type of Catholic school as well as size. Mine attends a large Catholic school so they are able to break kids up by ability for the core subjects, so each kid has a homeroom teacher who teaches some things, but the kids switch classrooms for math, English, reading. There are a few kids - maybe 5-10% of kids? - who seem to need help in several subjects or more significant help in certain subjects and according to DD they go see the reading or math specialist during those times. We toured a much smaller Catholic school with fewer staff (no learning specialist or nurse, for example) and all the kids stay with the homeroom teacher for all subjects.[/quote]

I’ve only seen this at the middle school level grades 6-8, not for the younger grades. In the younger grades in the 3 Catholic schools I’ve been in it’s one size fits all with very little differentiation. That’s not really what they do.[/quote]

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