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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]

This is so offensive. I am Catholic and send my kids to Catholic school. The people who are not Catholic have often chosen the school because it offers things that the public schools do not - phonics based instruction, arithmetic, cursive, and similar. It also has a lot more rules and expectations of conduct, as well as a big focus on virtues. [/quote]

This is so weird. I mean, imagine thinking phonics is a desirable teaching method or caring about cursive in 2024… Talk about outdated curricula.

But whatever.

This notion that publics don’t teach arithmetic is hilarious though.

Look, I could see the value of going to a private school with a distinctly different approach — say, inquiry-based, game-based, a flipped classroom or some other pedagogy not found in your typical public school.

But phonics??? And cursive??? Saying you want phonics and cursive as if those are some kind of differentiator instead of the regressive methods they are deny that you’re just trying to avoid the brown and disabled kids?

Milk came out of my nose I was laughing so hard.

I cannot believe someone justifies private school tuition for <checks notes> … phonics.

lol [/quote]

DP but you clearly know nothing about the debate over reading in this country over the past 30-40 years if you are this dismissive of phonics.[/quote]

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