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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Catholic school for non-Catholics (or non-observant Catholics) is simply for avoiding the poor, brown and disabled. [/quote]

Nope. Non-catholic here and are considering Catholic elementary because they have direct instruction of Phonics, spelling, grammar, cursive hand writing and more - many areas where our local public elementary simply does not offer direct instruction to students.

The Catholic schools were among the few schools which were not contaminated by the now widely discredited Lucy Calkins crap. [/quote]

If you teach your kid to read yourself, then it doesn't matter what reading curriculum the school uses for early grades. That Lucy Calkins and 3-cueing and wholistic word memorization crap doesn't hurt the kids who already can read. [/quote]

As someone who finally switched my kids to private after teaching my kids to read, and to spell, and making sure they had enriching science and history books to read at home....I'm so glad to be at a private. I'll still keep doing the many things I did on some level. But now when my kids have an issue, the school helps. There are math and reading specialists who actually make time to help on-level or advanced kids as well as kids who are behind. My kids can go to a writing lab or get math homework help for free. The curriculum includes grammar, vocabulary, and spelling so I no longer have to try and fit those things in after the kids have already had a long day.

Yes, parents can, should, and often do make up for the gaps in public. But you know what? Sometimes it's nice to not have to.

And of course not every kid has a parent capable of teaching them to read. For those kids, the curriculum does matter.[/quote]

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