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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My oldest attends a NOVA Catholic high school (certainly a sports-focused environment) where the class sizes are reasonable and we don't get phone calls or emails about poor performance. The thing to remember is that the kids are in high school now so they're expected to manage their work load and be proactive in reaching out to the teacher for help if they need it. 
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Ew. Any public school comment always brings out the supposed non MAGA Catholics. [/quote]

DP. I’m not a MAGA Catholic, but I am a person who has taught in both public and Catholic high schools. They simply don’t compare. In public, I was tasked with performing miracles with no resources. I burned out. In private, I am given the resources and respect to do my job well.

It’s about teacher support and teacher morale, and the publics aren’t doing well on either front right now.

And this has nothing to do with politics or religion. It’s about resources. [/quote]

Interesting.  Can you please elaborate more on resources with specific examples? What resources did parochial schools provide specifically that public schools do not? Or was this mostly smaller class sizes? Was it 2 teachers per class (teacher and assistant)?  Was it involvement and help of parent volunteers in each classroom? We had "class parents" in early elementary out of state (public) and volunteering was very much expected, although led to a lot of grumbling between FT working moms vs. SAHMs.  Our class sizes were large and in early elementary there was at first an assistant per each class to help out the teacher.  Later it went downhill and assistants disappeared. 
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Is this question for real? Not PP, but I sent my child to private (non-Catholic) for several years.  He had about 10 kids per class, one teacher, and if a kid was struggling, they would send a specialist in to help them during that period. You'd hear about it same day if grades dropped or an assignment didn't get done, and they wouldn't leave it alone until the kid was caught up. The school building was beautiful and clean and teachers had everything they could want, as well as full control over the curriculum and how they taught it.

Now....well, I teach in a high school myself. My classroom is a tiny, filthy (like, super gross) trailer that is literally falling down. It's dark, it stinks, I have 28 kids in a class and about half the desks are broken and wobbly or slanted.  I had to buy all my own supplies, including a stapler, pencils, paper, white board markers, a file cabinet, bookshelf, etc.  I don't even have a desk - just a slightly larger table than a student desk. The only free thing is copy paper, which I can steal from the copier room as much as I want. Most of my students are living in poverty, a lot of them work full time and miss class a lot, and about half of them don't speak any English. I'm just going to leave it there.  [/quote]

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