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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know in my own kid's school there is a lot of emphasis on public speaking and leadership. [/quote]

This! My kids who did Catholic for at least part of their education are not naturally extroverted, but they had so many oral presentations that they are poised and fluid orators. Even my kid who stuttered had to present orally and was taught to remain calm and keep going. [/quote]

My kids are at a Catholic school and I was sold on the tour when the impressive 8th grader showed us around. He looked us in the eye, seemed very mature, and was just had a presence about him, and seemed confident and comfortable with other adults. Most of the teens I saw around town were nothing like that. They mumbled when speaking, avoided eye contact and would certainly never call us Mr or Mrs. I'm sure for some manners are old fashioned and unimportant, but it made an impression on us.[/quote]

This is a huge selling point. My kids are young at a Catholic school and I volunteered for lunch duty. The middle school kids talked amongst themselves about normal things (clothes, anime, books), threw out all their trash, and THANKED ME for wiping the tables down! Of course it helps that no phones are allowed. If my kids turn out to be nice adolescents like that I'll consider it the best money I ever spent.[/quote]

Agree, I'm the PP and once we enrolled I did lunch duty and saw the same. So it wasn't just a one off with a friendly 8th grader. They were supposed to be respectful of the volunteers (as well as others) and were reminded to say please and thank you at every turn such that by 8th grade it was ingrained. And as for the community part, when I saw kids from the school around town that I knew, because it was a small community I looked out for them. I once saw a group of older boys try to leave a fast food restaurant without cleaning their tables and asked them to throw their trash out. I vaguely knew them, I definitely knew their families, they recognized me and they promptly cleaned up and said "sorry, we forgot".  In a bigger school it's likely I wouldn't have known those boys and certainly wouldn't have approached them. And I didn't get an angry call from an irate parent, the parents would have appreciated me making sure they cleaned up after themselves.[/quote]

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