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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What grade is this?[/quote]

Not the previous poster but I would guess the rising 9th. Many of the difficult boys were invited to look elsewhere for HS. St. Anselm's tends to try to keep kids through middle school hoping that their influence, along with possibly therapy, intervention from parents, etc. will make the difference. It's not ideal when a class ends up with several unpleasant kids, as this year's 8th did, but it can be seen as the Catholic approach to things. I know the monks and the admin struggle to achieve a balance and it's not a perfect system.

Catholic kids -- there is some thought of preference to kids coming from Catholic parish schools. However, generally those kids enter at 6th grade because they need a much more challenging curriculum or at 9th with the backing of their school knowing that they are at the top of their 8th grade class. Plenty of those kids are AA, though not all are necessarily Catholic. The boys are looked at based on whether the school is a good fit for THEM as people, not whether they are Catholic or not. Catholic families do have a better understanding of the point of a Catholic education and are not likely to argue with any element of the religious aspect. On the other hand, many non-Catholic families choose the school for the sense of peace, the academic rigor, small class sizes, etc.

It's a wonderful place though there are some questions that should be brought up over current admin and why bullying and other behavior has been allowed to flourish when that is extremely unlike the school as a whole. [/quote]

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