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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]This whole Catholic Schools don't have well qualified teachers and strong academics is just not true.  We are in Fairfax in a very good school district and our daughter attends Catholic School.  Her teacher last year was getting her masters to be a reading specialist and all of the teachers at her school are more than qualified and have been at the school for many years.[/b]

Our school has strong academics.  You need a 93 average to get an A, which is higher than Fairfax--Fairfax lowered this to a 90 a few years back.  There is foreign language, new computers and tablets being added every year.  Recess every day in all grades.

We decided against our local public school because the entire school was just too big.  5 classes per grade was not going to work for us.

We know all the families in our grades and feel that the school, the teachers and admin staff knows our daughter well.

School time start worked better for working families too.

We do not regret for one second sending our child to Catholic school over our very good Fairfax County school.
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Strongly disagree.  We tried parochial in Fairfax but the teachers were simply not in the same league as the public.  One child went through Langley and had 10 different AP courses to select from in every subject plus Russian and Japanese as additional options to the regular offering of foreign languages.  She received a superb education and is doing well in college.  Her transition from Langley (2400) to a University of 30,000 was seamless.  That would not have happened if we had stayed in parochial school.   In our current private for another child EVERY teacher has a Master's degree.  That's the problem with parochial schools - the bar for teaching is set too low and too often parents are used in the classroom as aides.  There is not the same level of professionalism as there is in public.[/quote]

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