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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Trying to see if we should accept our child’s spot for the humanities magnet at Eastern MS. We were planning for our child to attend an Archdiocese of DC parochial school until this offer from Eastern came. Anyone in DCUM has experience with Eastern’s magnet program and an Archdiocese parochial school, and have thoughts on this?

Or in the alternative, anyone knows how MCPS’ Math 6+ or AIM curriculum at MCPS compares versus the Math curriculum at Archdiocese of DC parochial schools?

TIA![/quote]

Catholic schools employ teachers who are not all accredited. They pay a lower salary. We did St Johns for a year. Great for community and behavior at school. Not as good academically as MCPS. [/quote]

We have 1 kid in MCPS and 1 at catholic MS and overall the teaching is better at private. The teachers are happier there as they don’t have to deal with some of the MCPS shenanigans about not being able to discipline kids or being forced give them a failing grade in order to boost the achievement gap. They also have more flexibility to tailor the curriculum to an individual students needs.

I’ve also heard from our MCPS MS principal that they are struggling to remove bad teachers because it’s so hard to find good replacements. It’s really bad this year with retirements and teachers just not coming back…..

We have found the curriculum to be a lot more rigorous at catholic school as well. Our kid in catholic MS has 6 others in their advanced math class- lots of 1:1 attention and ability to do fun projects.[/quote]

PP, do you mind sharing the name of the Catholic school your kid went to? Thanks much for this! [/quote]

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