Anonymous
06/12/2026 11:37
Subject: Pros and cons of all boys catholic schools
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:coed schools are currently ranked the best of the best in the country. These are challenging environments. I think the question is why pick all boys when coed schools are better.Anonymous wrote:at most coed schools, the top of the class is nowadays mostly girls. sure there are exceptions. but overall girls tend to perform better at school at this age. that is not all bad. but people want their sons during prime developmental years to also be confident in their abilities and motivated such that they are working hard and maybe you can find that at a challenging all-boys high school environment.
What makes them better? Do you seriously think it make sense to "rank" the 30,000 high schools in the U.S.?
You don't like rankings? Metrics that show what kids are learning? Hum....
1. Catholic schools are never as academic as public that is a fact. Especially in Science & Math.
2. When one throws one religion at a kid how in the world does that open their minds to a full on education?
Anonymous
06/12/2026 11:25
Subject: Pros and cons of all boys catholic schools
Anonymous wrote:drama and dances does not equal a regular presence.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:All boy Catholic schools are creepy, imo. Why shelter then from the real world where girls exist and you have to interact with them?
Yeah, I used to think this way in the abstract about single-sex schools. Then we found a particular all-boys school that was a good fit for our son; other all-boys schools would have not have been as ideal of a fit. There were two co-ed schools we liked equally as well and were accepted to, but the particular all-boys school was a much easier commute for us and about $15K cheaper, so we weighed all the variables and decided on the all-boys school. I’m sure there will be some impact (good or bad), but that’s life and otherwise well-adjusted people can learn to navigate new environments as they encounter them.
And as a practical matter, girls are regular presence on campus as part of the drama program and dances. More important to me is that my son have a critical mass of female authority figures, which the school does. I would not send my son to a school that does not employ female instructors.
No it doesn’t - but a “regular presence” isn’t exactly necessary to avoid girls becoming some weird abstraction or alien figures that are different from “us” in all respects. Frequent social and cooperative interaction is sufficient and healthy. And, at any ratel, almost everyone at our school was in a coed school through 5th grade, and most elementary schools are heavily female (if not feminized) environments for better or worse.
What our boys don’t get now, is the need to performative under the female gaze (real or perceived) or the quiet message that some things aren’t for you because they are female-coded. You know, some of the same reasons a family may choose an all-girls school for their daughter without it being “creepy.”
Anonymous
06/12/2026 10:37
Subject: Pros and cons of all boys catholic schools
drama and dances does not equal a regular presence.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:All boy Catholic schools are creepy, imo. Why shelter then from the real world where girls exist and you have to interact with them?
Yeah, I used to think this way in the abstract about single-sex schools. Then we found a particular all-boys school that was a good fit for our son; other all-boys schools would have not have been as ideal of a fit. There were two co-ed schools we liked equally as well and were accepted to, but the particular all-boys school was a much easier commute for us and about $15K cheaper, so we weighed all the variables and decided on the all-boys school. I’m sure there will be some impact (good or bad), but that’s life and otherwise well-adjusted people can learn to navigate new environments as they encounter them.
And as a practical matter, girls are regular presence on campus as part of the drama program and dances. More important to me is that my son have a critical mass of female authority figures, which the school does. I would not send my son to a school that does not employ female instructors.
Anonymous
06/12/2026 06:01
Subject: Pros and cons of all boys catholic schools
Anonymous wrote:All boy Catholic schools are creepy, imo. Why shelter then from the real world where girls exist and you have to interact with them?
Totally agree with this
Anonymous
06/11/2026 06:39
Subject: Pros and cons of all boys catholic schools
It 100% depends on the kid -- I went to an all boys Catholic school and hated it. My brothers went and loved it. Go figure.
Anonymous
06/11/2026 06:32
Subject: Pros and cons of all boys catholic schools
Anonymous wrote:All boy Catholic schools are creepy, imo. Why shelter then from the real world where girls exist and you have to interact with them?
Yeah, I used to think this way in the abstract about single-sex schools. Then we found a particular all-boys school that was a good fit for our son; other all-boys schools would have not have been as ideal of a fit. There were two co-ed schools we liked equally as well and were accepted to, but the particular all-boys school was a much easier commute for us and about $15K cheaper, so we weighed all the variables and decided on the all-boys school. I’m sure there will be some impact (good or bad), but that’s life and otherwise well-adjusted people can learn to navigate new environments as they encounter them.
And as a practical matter, girls are regular presence on campus as part of the drama program and dances. More important to me is that my son have a critical mass of female authority figures, which the school does. I would not send my son to a school that does not employ female instructors.
Anonymous
06/09/2026 11:19
Subject: Pros and cons of all boys catholic schools
Zero pros
Anonymous
06/09/2026 11:16
Subject: Pros and cons of all boys catholic schools
All boy Catholic schools are creepy, imo. Why shelter then from the real world where girls exist and you have to interact with them?
Anonymous
06/08/2026 18:23
Subject: Pros and cons of all boys catholic schools
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Regis, Prep, Gilman, Strake, Collegiate..the best of the best all boys in the country.
And there are coed schools that are better than every one of those. What is the point?
And there are all boys school better than every one of the ones you listed. What’s your point?
Interesting thread. But coed schools are the best schools in the country.
Here we go again! According to you.
According to any list of best schools in the country.
Anonymous
06/08/2026 14:55
Subject: Pros and cons of all boys catholic schools
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Regis, Prep, Gilman, Strake, Collegiate..the best of the best all boys in the country.
And there are coed schools that are better than every one of those. What is the point?
And there are all boys school better than every one of the ones you listed. What’s your point?
Interesting thread. But coed schools are the best schools in the country.
Here we go again! According to you.
Anonymous
06/08/2026 13:29
Subject: Pros and cons of all boys catholic schools
these are valid reasons I think, but no one should put any stock into these reasons for judging a school.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Regis, Prep, Gilman, Strake, Collegiate..the best of the best all boys in the country.
And there are coed schools that are better than every one of those. What is the point?
There are lots of good schools, coed and single sex. You are so odd to insist everyone should go to some random co-ed high school in a differnt city because eit is highly ranked by some marketing firm, instead of the single sex Catholic shcool in the neighobrhood where perhaps three generations of his family went.
Anonymous
06/08/2026 13:23
Subject: Pros and cons of all boys catholic schools
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Regis, Prep, Gilman, Strake, Collegiate..the best of the best all boys in the country.
And there are coed schools that are better than every one of those. What is the point?
And there are all boys school better than every one of the ones you listed. What’s your point?
Interesting thread. But coed schools are the best schools in the country.
Anonymous
04/04/2026 13:54
Subject: Pros and cons of all boys catholic schools
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Regis, Prep, Gilman, Strake, Collegiate..the best of the best all boys in the country.
And there are coed schools that are better than every one of those. What is the point?
There are lots of good schools, coed and single sex. You are so odd to insist everyone should go to some random co-ed high school in a differnt city because eit is highly ranked by some marketing firm, instead of the single sex Catholic shcool in the neighobrhood where perhaps three generations of his family went.
Anonymous
04/04/2026 13:51
Subject: Pros and cons of all boys catholic schools
Anonymous wrote:coed schools are currently ranked the best of the best in the country. These are challenging environments. I think the question is why pick all boys when coed schools are better.Anonymous wrote:at most coed schools, the top of the class is nowadays mostly girls. sure there are exceptions. but overall girls tend to perform better at school at this age. that is not all bad. but people want their sons during prime developmental years to also be confident in their abilities and motivated such that they are working hard and maybe you can find that at a challenging all-boys high school environment.
What makes them better? Do you seriously think it make sense to "rank" the 30,000 high schools in the U.S.?
Anonymous
04/03/2026 18:04
Subject: Pros and cons of all boys catholic schools
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:coed schools are currently ranked the best of the best in the country. These are challenging environments. I think the question is why pick all boys when coed schools are better.Anonymous wrote:at most coed schools, the top of the class is nowadays mostly girls. sure there are exceptions. but overall girls tend to perform better at school at this age. that is not all bad. but people want their sons during prime developmental years to also be confident in their abilities and motivated such that they are working hard and maybe you can find that at a challenging all-boys high school environment.
This is a silly question on a DC private school forum. You may be able to get the answer you’re looking for if you name the coed schools currently ranked the “best of the best” in the country.
Sidwell, Veritas, Choate up in CT, Lawrenceville in NJ, etc etc.
If people want a Catholic school that doesn’t really work. Your priorities aren’t everyone’s priorites.