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Anonymous wrote:Bullying is handled swiftly at St. Louis. We have multiple kids and have only had one problem. Teacher/admin/counselor all engaged. The problem was nipped in the bid. They put the children in separate classrooms the next year too.

As a soon to be parent I appreciate this response! We are moving from public to St. Louis mostly due to bullying/fear of violence that was not handled appropriately in the public school space.

Anonymous wrote:Bullying is handled swiftly at St. Louis. We have multiple kids and have only had one problem. Teacher/admin/counselor all engaged. The problem was nipped in the bid. They put the children in separate classrooms the next year too.

Anonymous wrote:The bullying issue at BSSM is interesting. Is this a problem at St. Louis as well?
Its an issue at our local public so I am curious if this is a problem everywhere or especially bad for a Catholic school.

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Anonymous wrote:Im going to give a little input from the neighborhood rumor mill. I do Not have a child at the school. I have A middle schooler who goes somewhere else. The word is that the middle school boys are struggling. The new conservative principal came in promising a new initiative to cater to boys- to create leaders out of the boys. He sold a very conservative agenda that spoke to the parents of boys. The school wants to give boys more leadership opportunities and teach to their needs because they are worried that modern curriculum has left boys behind. (I could Not roll my eyes deeper into my head) however, bullying and behavior problems amongst the boys especially via text message and in video game chats is insane (calling kids gay, making fun of their bodies, luring them into group chats to bully them, very sexualized verbal attacks, racism against Asian children) m. The stories I’ve heard from parents of st Mary’s kids about the bullying their kids endure are terrifying. However, the school believes in “peer feedback” meaning if a child is being bullied like being called fat or being called annoying, they need to hear this to motivate them to change. The administration does nothing about bullying amongst boys. In fact, if a child is dorky or an outcast or suffers bullying, they let the bullying persist without intervention until the parents remove the child from the school. Several middle school boys left mid year for commonwealth academy. The class sizes are way too big. There was a flood of “woke” but “nimby” parents during the pandemic who want accommodation and differentiated curriculum and a curriculum for the whole child and mental health and anti-bullying but they are paying bargain basement prices. They are shocked to find out that Catholic Church serves the goal of creating more Catholics.

You sure have a definite opinion as someone who isn’t actually in the school.

I guess the weekly mass is working wonders for these kids. Forcing 14 yos to attend mass TWICE a week (Friday and Sunday) is a wonderful idea.

If this is such a problem, why are you at a Catholic school? Attending Mass as a school once a week is part of the culture. Is it that you are too cheap to pay for a secular private?

As has been noted numerous times, not all catholic schools go to mass every week — neither nationally nor in the dmv. So stop pretending that going to mass every Friday during school hours is somehow the 11th commandment or an edict from the Pope, or that you’re somehow “less catholic” bc you actually prefer to have your kids learn academics (including religion class) at SCHOOL rather than sit at mass during the school day.

Perhaps you should just send your kids to a monastery or homeschool so you can take your kids to mass every day. Let the the rest of us have a BALANCED, academically rich and rigorous environment.

Anonymous wrote:St. Louis parents: do kids stay all the way through 8th (we are currently in an area where kids start leaving the school around 6th grade)? Where do grads go for high school? Did you feel your child was well-prepared for high school?

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Anonymous wrote:Im going to give a little input from the neighborhood rumor mill. I do Not have a child at the school. I have A middle schooler who goes somewhere else. The word is that the middle school boys are struggling. The new conservative principal came in promising a new initiative to cater to boys- to create leaders out of the boys. He sold a very conservative agenda that spoke to the parents of boys. The school wants to give boys more leadership opportunities and teach to their needs because they are worried that modern curriculum has left boys behind. (I could Not roll my eyes deeper into my head) however, bullying and behavior problems amongst the boys especially via text message and in video game chats is insane (calling kids gay, making fun of their bodies, luring them into group chats to bully them, very sexualized verbal attacks, racism against Asian children) m. The stories I’ve heard from parents of st Mary’s kids about the bullying their kids endure are terrifying. However, the school believes in “peer feedback” meaning if a child is being bullied like being called fat or being called annoying, they need to hear this to motivate them to change. The administration does nothing about bullying amongst boys. In fact, if a child is dorky or an outcast or suffers bullying, they let the bullying persist without intervention until the parents remove the child from the school. Several middle school boys left mid year for commonwealth academy. The class sizes are way too big. There was a flood of “woke” but “nimby” parents during the pandemic who want accommodation and differentiated curriculum and a curriculum for the whole child and mental health and anti-bullying but they are paying bargain basement prices. They are shocked to find out that Catholic Church serves the goal of creating more Catholics.

You sure have a definite opinion as someone who isn’t actually in the school.

I guess the weekly mass is working wonders for these kids. Forcing 14 yos to attend mass TWICE a week (Friday and Sunday) is a wonderful idea.

If this is such a problem, why are you at a Catholic school? Attending Mass as a school once a week is part of the culture. Is it that you are too cheap to pay for a secular private?

As has been noted numerous times, not all catholic schools go to mass every week — neither nationally nor in the dmv. So stop pretending that going to mass every Friday during school hours is somehow the 11th commandment or an edict from the Pope, or that you’re somehow “less catholic” bc you actually prefer to have your kids learn academics (including religion class) at SCHOOL rather than sit at mass during the school day.

Perhaps you should just send your kids to a monastery or homeschool so you can take your kids to mass every day. Let the the rest of us have a BALANCED, academically rich and rigorous environment.

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Anonymous wrote:Im going to give a little input from the neighborhood rumor mill. I do Not have a child at the school. I have A middle schooler who goes somewhere else. The word is that the middle school boys are struggling. The new conservative principal came in promising a new initiative to cater to boys- to create leaders out of the boys. He sold a very conservative agenda that spoke to the parents of boys. The school wants to give boys more leadership opportunities and teach to their needs because they are worried that modern curriculum has left boys behind. (I could Not roll my eyes deeper into my head) however, bullying and behavior problems amongst the boys especially via text message and in video game chats is insane (calling kids gay, making fun of their bodies, luring them into group chats to bully them, very sexualized verbal attacks, racism against Asian children) m. The stories I’ve heard from parents of st Mary’s kids about the bullying their kids endure are terrifying. However, the school believes in “peer feedback” meaning if a child is being bullied like being called fat or being called annoying, they need to hear this to motivate them to change. The administration does nothing about bullying amongst boys. In fact, if a child is dorky or an outcast or suffers bullying, they let the bullying persist without intervention until the parents remove the child from the school. Several middle school boys left mid year for commonwealth academy. The class sizes are way too big. There was a flood of “woke” but “nimby” parents during the pandemic who want accommodation and differentiated curriculum and a curriculum for the whole child and mental health and anti-bullying but they are paying bargain basement prices. They are shocked to find out that Catholic Church serves the goal of creating more Catholics.

You sure have a definite opinion as someone who isn’t actually in the school.

I guess the weekly mass is working wonders for these kids. Forcing 14 yos to attend mass TWICE a week (Friday and Sunday) is a wonderful idea.

If this is such a problem, why are you at a Catholic school? Attending Mass as a school once a week is part of the culture. Is it that you are too cheap to pay for a secular private?

As has been noted numerous times, not all catholic schools go to mass every week — neither nationally nor in the dmv. So stop pretending that going to mass every Friday during school hours is somehow the 11th commandment or an edict from the Pope, or that you’re somehow “less catholic” bc you actually prefer to have your kids learn academics (including religion class) at SCHOOL rather than sit at mass during the school day.

Perhaps you should just send your kids to a monastery or homeschool so you can take your kids to mass every day. Let the the rest of us have a BALANCED, academically rich and rigorous environment.

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Anonymous wrote:Im going to give a little input from the neighborhood rumor mill. I do Not have a child at the school. I have A middle schooler who goes somewhere else. The word is that the middle school boys are struggling. The new conservative principal came in promising a new initiative to cater to boys- to create leaders out of the boys. He sold a very conservative agenda that spoke to the parents of boys. The school wants to give boys more leadership opportunities and teach to their needs because they are worried that modern curriculum has left boys behind. (I could Not roll my eyes deeper into my head) however, bullying and behavior problems amongst the boys especially via text message and in video game chats is insane (calling kids gay, making fun of their bodies, luring them into group chats to bully them, very sexualized verbal attacks, racism against Asian children) m. The stories I’ve heard from parents of st Mary’s kids about the bullying their kids endure are terrifying. However, the school believes in “peer feedback” meaning if a child is being bullied like being called fat or being called annoying, they need to hear this to motivate them to change. The administration does nothing about bullying amongst boys. In fact, if a child is dorky or an outcast or suffers bullying, they let the bullying persist without intervention until the parents remove the child from the school. Several middle school boys left mid year for commonwealth academy. The class sizes are way too big. There was a flood of “woke” but “nimby” parents during the pandemic who want accommodation and differentiated curriculum and a curriculum for the whole child and mental health and anti-bullying but they are paying bargain basement prices. They are shocked to find out that Catholic Church serves the goal of creating more Catholics.

This thread has gone off the rails...

St. Mary's does have serious teacher quality issues, but doing away with school mass is not going to make teachers magically improve.

As a school with a lot of wealth, but Lord of the Flies it is not. Perhaps favoritism shown to prominent families, but that happens everywhere even Sidwell..gasp

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Anonymous wrote:Im going to give a little input from the neighborhood rumor mill. I do Not have a child at the school. I have A middle schooler who goes somewhere else. The word is that the middle school boys are struggling. The new conservative principal came in promising a new initiative to cater to boys- to create leaders out of the boys. He sold a very conservative agenda that spoke to the parents of boys. The school wants to give boys more leadership opportunities and teach to their needs because they are worried that modern curriculum has left boys behind. (I could Not roll my eyes deeper into my head) however, bullying and behavior problems amongst the boys especially via text message and in video game chats is insane (calling kids gay, making fun of their bodies, luring them into group chats to bully them, very sexualized verbal attacks, racism against Asian children) m. The stories I’ve heard from parents of st Mary’s kids about the bullying their kids endure are terrifying. However, the school believes in “peer feedback” meaning if a child is being bullied like being called fat or being called annoying, they need to hear this to motivate them to change. The administration does nothing about bullying amongst boys. In fact, if a child is dorky or an outcast or suffers bullying, they let the bullying persist without intervention until the parents remove the child from the school. Several middle school boys left mid year for commonwealth academy. The class sizes are way too big. There was a flood of “woke” but “nimby” parents during the pandemic who want accommodation and differentiated curriculum and a curriculum for the whole child and mental health and anti-bullying but they are paying bargain basement prices. They are shocked to find out that Catholic Church serves the goal of creating more Catholics.

You sure have a definite opinion as someone who isn’t actually in the school.

I guess the weekly mass is working wonders for these kids. Forcing 14 yos to attend mass TWICE a week (Friday and Sunday) is a wonderful idea.

If this is such a problem, why are you at a Catholic school? Attending Mass as a school once a week is part of the culture. Is it that you are too cheap to pay for a secular private?

As has been noted numerous times, not all catholic schools go to mass every week — neither nationally nor in the dmv. So stop pretending that going to mass every Friday during school hours is somehow the 11th commandment or an edict from the Pope, or that you’re somehow “less catholic” bc you actually prefer to have your kids learn academics (including religion class) at SCHOOL rather than sit at mass during the school day.

Perhaps you should just send your kids to a monastery or homeschool so you can take your kids to mass every day. Let the the rest of us have a BALANCED, academically rich and rigorous environment.

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Anonymous wrote:Im going to give a little input from the neighborhood rumor mill. I do Not have a child at the school. I have A middle schooler who goes somewhere else. The word is that the middle school boys are struggling. The new conservative principal came in promising a new initiative to cater to boys- to create leaders out of the boys. He sold a very conservative agenda that spoke to the parents of boys. The school wants to give boys more leadership opportunities and teach to their needs because they are worried that modern curriculum has left boys behind. (I could Not roll my eyes deeper into my head) however, bullying and behavior problems amongst the boys especially via text message and in video game chats is insane (calling kids gay, making fun of their bodies, luring them into group chats to bully them, very sexualized verbal attacks, racism against Asian children) m. The stories I’ve heard from parents of st Mary’s kids about the bullying their kids endure are terrifying. However, the school believes in “peer feedback” meaning if a child is being bullied like being called fat or being called annoying, they need to hear this to motivate them to change. The administration does nothing about bullying amongst boys. In fact, if a child is dorky or an outcast or suffers bullying, they let the bullying persist without intervention until the parents remove the child from the school. Several middle school boys left mid year for commonwealth academy. The class sizes are way too big. There was a flood of “woke” but “nimby” parents during the pandemic who want accommodation and differentiated curriculum and a curriculum for the whole child and mental health and anti-bullying but they are paying bargain basement prices. They are shocked to find out that Catholic Church serves the goal of creating more Catholics.

You sure have a definite opinion as someone who isn’t actually in the school.

I guess the weekly mass is working wonders for these kids. Forcing 14 yos to attend mass TWICE a week (Friday and Sunday) is a wonderful idea.

If this is such a problem, why are you at a Catholic school? Attending Mass as a school once a week is part of the culture. Is it that you are too cheap to pay for a secular private?