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[quote=Anonymous][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]

WTH? My son’s friends in public school don’t take midterms or finals. My son has been taking both since 3rd grade. He had essays on every test.

[b]I’m not sure his friends in public have ever written anything to hand in longer than two pages. They asked him what a thesis statement was.[/b] This was in 12th grade. Public schools just don’t assign long writing assignments because the teachers have too many students to have time to grade them. [/quote]
I went to Catholic schools and now my kids are in public. I agree Catholic schools have a much more robust writing curriculum, especially in ES. But let's not generalize to all public schools and classes, huh?  This has not been true in our FCPS schools (again I have a lot of grievances but not fan of people pulling stuff out of their butts to make a point).  And IB schools at the HS level do have a lot of writing.  [/quote]

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