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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have always viewed Gonzaga as a gloried public school.

It is not nearly as Catholic as you think.

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Gonzaga is as far from a public school as you can get.  Not sure where pp is getting this impression.  First of all, it is single sex. I have, however, [b]heard of SJC getting that description[/b].  DS shadowed there, and he said it felt like public school with uniforms. [/quote]

What makes it feel 'public' (that needn't be a slur, btw)?  Is it the chapel, the prayer to start each class and sport/activity, the monthly mass, the mission trips, the peer ministers, or the FA for those less fortunate?  I'd like to know.  [/quote]

I think what makes it feel more public than Gonzaga is the fact that it is co-ed, and everything is under one roof.  Gonzaga (which is all boys) has several buildings with a courtyard in the center.  It feels more private in that sense.  More like a very tiny college campus.  That coupled with the fact that it includes a chapel AND a church makes it feel more Catholic.  Finally a homeless shelter in the basement of the church gives the boys ample opportunity to serve the underprivileged without ever leaving the school grounds.
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What makes it more like a public school is the fact that there are black students.

Every single person that makes that comment to me is from a Lilly white life.[/quote]

Why would having black students in a school make it more like public?  The public schools in our area have very few blacks...mostly white and Asian.  In fact the Gonzaga percentage of blacks to whites is higher than in our local pubic school.[/quote]

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