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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]College is the new high school.  Kids coming in are like middle school students from a decade or two ago.  Poor reading and writing skills.  Want to do corrections and have trouble with deadlines.  Sure COVID made it worse but was getting progressively worse before COVID.  I chalk it up to the advent of everyone getting a participation trophy.  [/quote]

Not all of them. My son went to a Catholic high school. The only change made by his school during Covid was that finals were optional for two years (and if you took them and they lowered your grade, you were stuck with it). He is an excellent writer. If something was more than a day late, he got a zero. There were no retakes and the lowest grade you could get was a zero, not a 50%. You are describing students coming from public schools where these policies were in place. [/quote]

But the main problem with Catholic high schools is that the curriculum is not nearly as rigorous as in public schools. No need for retakes when the tests are so easy, amirite?[/quote]

Oh no, you couldn't be further from the truth.  My kids had to take an entrance exam and take placement tests to place out of lower level math and into Honors language, etc.  My kids were straight A students in intensified math, language, etc., in middle school and routinely scored perfect 600s on SOLs.  After 7th grade the oldest bombed the Algebra exemption test for the Independent Hs because the math was much more in depth and had concepts not taught at his public MS.  They could virtually do noting in public MS and score all As.  The courses are much more rigorous at their private and no slack is given.  The amount of writing and studying they do vs in public is not even close.  They both have scored 5s on every AP exam to date.[/quote]

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