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[quote=Anonymous]I think the biggest advantage and one that parents make the sacrifice for is the environment. Being amongst peers whose parents care about education (there are many in public too but in our experience it was about half and half) has stretched our child. The kids aren't necessarily nicer, to be honest, but calmer yes, 100%. No one in our run of the mill K-8 Catholic is disrupting anyone's learning on a near constant basis, at least not without direct consequence. The expectation to behave is just there. And I say this as the parent of a child who given the wrong influences will definitely not behave. A striking difference was going to a music concert at the school. We were stunned by the silence in the room when others performed, as opposed to the chaotic winter concert we'd been to at the public where kids screamed and ran around the whole time. My kid often comments that they are being trusted to walk from one classroom to another on their own, whereas in the public school kids had to walk in a line accomoanied by the teacher and there was so much sushing, yelling, redirecting because kids would use the opportunity to go nuts during that time since it was clear there weren't many movement opportunities (recess, etc). While I don't think the academics go above and beyond public, it is definitely the first time a teacher is checking our child's spelling, the first time they're learning grammar and the first time the teacher reads books aloud to the kids in class. I think if public schools functioned in the same way mine did in the 80s, I'd be all for it. Sadly that's not what we found. The closest to that model is definitely the K-8 Catholic schools. At least from what I remember of my own schooling in a run of the mill public elementary / middle in the 80s and 90s.[/quote]

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