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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Friend’s kids go to local Catholic school for 3rd grade and 5th grade. It seems like every other day they go to mass, have some prayer event, have a student assembly, etc. Do kids at these schools have enough instruction time for ACADEMICS?

How do they compete with public and non-religious schools whose total number of school days are the same (or more) but without all the religious extracurricular? [/quote]
Depends on the school.  Prep, for example, is extremely rigorous.  [/quote]

Most Catholic schools have high expectations for academic habits and behavior. Both of these will allow a student to reach their academic potential. I've never heard of an "easy" Catholic school. Most schools (except for St. Anselm's, I guess) teach kids at every academic level, but even the students who struggle academically are expected to have good academic habits and work hard to achieve their level best, whether that level (in math) is Geometry in 8th or remedial 8th grade math.

Also, to the PPs who want to measure rigor by math class alone, I'm not a fam of acceleration for acceleration's sake. Slow and steady, with greater depth and complexity, is a far more useful approach, even for the future math PhD.s. Just my opinion based on experience with my kids, who had both experiences and ended up in the same place.
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