I also learnt asking a number of parents opnions on the school you may not get an honest answer as a lot of people are worried to say anything bad about the community and have the children bear the brunt of it.

Anonymous wrote:If DD fails where shld I send her

Your local diocesan school or public.

Anonymous wrote:On the back to school part on the website, it says book buying. Are we expected to buy our own books? If so what is the estimated cost for a high school student? And do they allow kids to print out their own copies from online and then staple it or do you need to buy the actual book? I've never been to a school where I had to buy books so I was confused.

Yes you have to buy your books and it’s not cheap. It was typically in the $450-650 range for US. The link to buy books from the distributor goes live in July and you have the option to buy directly from that site or attempt to shop around for better prices elsewhere. The distributor has “used” book options for some titles which helped with cost. We attempted to source books from multiple vendors one year to see if we could do it for less money, but decided that the hassle was not worth the possible $20 or $30 savings and ordered via the school’s distributor going forward. For second DD we were able to recycle many of the books, but not all.

Anonymous wrote:On the back to school part on the website, it says book buying. Are we expected to buy our own books? If so what is the estimated cost for a high school student? And do they allow kids to print out their own copies from online and then staple it or do you need to buy the actual book? I've never been to a school where I had to buy books so I was confused.

Yes you have to buy your own books and it will be hundreds of dollars. My recommendation is to look for used books on Amazon to save money, when possible. Another option is to wait until classes start and see if the teacher actually uses the book. I am seeing more and more teachers use online resources and my daughter hasn't touched a couple of her text books this year. For foreign language you will definitely need the text to gain access to the online portion of the curriculum.

On the back to school part on the website, it says book buying. Are we expected to buy our own books? If so what is the estimated cost for a high school student? And do they allow kids to print out their own copies from online and then staple it or do you need to buy the actual book? I've never been to a school where I had to buy books so I was confused.

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Anonymous wrote:I know SR is a catholic school but is it conservative? Is it more on the right side or the left?

Not an SR parent but the daughter of one of my close friends goes there. Not conservative and not super catholic. I heard about pride flags in the classroom and many of the girls go to pro choice marches.

Not sure why you are spreading inaccurate information about the school here when you aren't even in the community. There are no pride flags hanging at SR. The school has pivoted to a much stronger Catholic identity while still being welcoming to non Catholic families. Gender issues are tolerated, but not condoned by any means. It certainly isn't celebrated like it is in pubic schools. Plenty of conservative families at SR who will not tolerate that nonsense.

I hope you are an SR family because you are pretty wide of the mark as to how the school presents itself while recruiting students for the US. The "will not tolerate that nonsense" quip and subsequent anti-homosexual commentary paint a nice picture of someone pretending to have control of circumstances at an institution they do not understand and cannot manage. Good luck to you and yours in holding on to your prejudice, whatever the rationale. The safe places left for those who cannot live with the love of Christ for all humanity seem to be shrinking no matter how vociferously folks demand a return to darker times.

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Anonymous wrote:Can a student self-study APs and take the exam at a different school. If so, how does it work? Asking as an incoming parent for 11th grade.

Ask all the public school kids how they do it. Or all the other private school kids whose schools got rid of AP classes years ago.

You just sign up to take the test and self teach.

Not hard millions of kids do it

Private schools kids pay tutors to help navigate

If DD fails where shld I send her

Anonymous wrote:Can a student self-study APs and take the exam at a different school. If so, how does it work? Asking as an incoming parent for 11th grade.

Ask all the public school kids how they do it. Or all the other private school kids whose schools got rid of AP classes years ago.

Parent of recent graduate. For the most part, SR felt very middle of the road politically to us. They really leaned into some left leaning topics for a year or two with lots of introspective “work” that a large segment of the families pushed back on because while well intentioned, the approach was a bit heavy handed. SR has always had a mix of conservative and liberal families although on the balance the faculty tends to be more left leaning.

Anonymous wrote:+1 very middle of the road. Frankly as a country we could use more of that right now.

Honestly we don't need and more of that.

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Anonymous wrote:+1 very middle of the road. Frankly as a country we could use more of that right now.

What do you mean?

Meaning the country is polarized.

Anonymous wrote:+1 very middle of the road. Frankly as a country we could use more of that right now.

What do you mean?

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Anonymous wrote:I know SR is a catholic school but is it conservative? Is it more on the right side or the left?

Not an SR parent but the daughter of one of my close friends goes there. Not conservative and not super catholic. I heard about pride flags in the classroom and many of the girls go to pro choice marches.

Not sure why you are spreading inaccurate information about the school here when you aren't even in the community. There are no pride flags hanging at SR. The school has pivoted to a much stronger Catholic identity while still being welcoming to non Catholic families. Gender issues are tolerated, but not condoned by any means. It certainly isn't celebrated like it is in pubic schools. Plenty of conservative families at SR who will not tolerate that nonsense.

This is my experience also. The school feels very middle of the road with mist controversial topics. It's a reach to call it left- leaning.

+1 very middle of the road. Frankly as a country we could use more of that right now.

Anonymous wrote:Fake news. There is no systemic issue at SR. All of these questions about gradations/strictness/US vs MS are bot-generated to rile people up. There is no issue with the head of US (or any of the schools). If you want info about the school, call another parent, or call a class rep, or call one of the families that are assigned to assist new incoming families. if you rely on a message board for your info, you get what you pay for.

I disagree that these questions are to rile people up. Some people don't know anyone at the school and don't want to ask their mentor families for various reasons/want to get more opinions. I also think that a majority of people don't believe the things written here 100% but will walk in with caution on the first day of school. But also, isn't one of the purposes of this forum to ask questions? People should be able to ask genuine questions without being called bot-generated.