Anonymous wrote:There is Holton, Madeira, Holy Child, Holy Cross... all of them better than Visi!

Anonymous wrote:When is due date to accept at Visi?

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Anonymous wrote:But why is that wrong? If there are families that are "favorites" at that K-8 level, it seems very likely that they would also be "favorites" at the high school level. Why wouldn't a high school want kids from those families?

If you ran a high school, wouldn't you be more likely to admit kids from families what were beloved in the parochial schools and parishes? I would.

It obviously shouldn't be the determining factor in every case, but I don't see a problem with it being a thumb on the scale if two kids are otherwise equal academically.

Omg, there’s so much wrong with this I can’t even start. This is totally how K-8 Catholic is though for those of you who haven’t experienced it.
There were actually teachers who would bump up test scores for kids from ‘preferred families’ to get those kids into the right high school.
I’ll tell you OP that this doesn’t nothing for your kid in the long term as the prime of their achievement in life is 8th -12th grade. You can’t follow them to college and curry favor for them and thus the endless slide into mediocrity begins. And then your angry kid and their new spouse and kids begins the process at their alma mater to begin the cycle anew.

This is not how it is in our Catholic K-8. Not in the slightest.

Did you ever stop and think that you do not know the whole story, and those kids are working hard for the better grades....?

You're lucky then if that's not what your catholic k-8 is like bc for a lot of schools that's how it is. And no those kids aren't working harder than other kids for better grades. They are usually the kids who do the basic minimum yet somehow magically they get good grades and get selected for choice parts throughout the school. It's really disheartening.

You think it’s weird that you hear parents talking about their kids going to certain private high schools when the kids are only in 2nd grade, but after hearing similar (ramping up) throughout the years and seeing other things over the years you realize that people are dead serious and you and your family are ‘in the way’. Our kids’ school even had a 2nd grade teacher speak regularly in class about which girls she thought would get into Visitation and how they should all desire to do so (but that they wouldn’t all be accepted). Parents speak oncessively about Gonzaga or Prep for their boys in the early grades. The parents would do anything to get their kids in and it starts very very early and some of the things that go on are just wrong. It’s surreal. We switched our kids to a different school.

This sounds awful. Can you please name the K-8 parish schools that are or are not like this?

Here’s a hint - if they tell you that ‘they are the best school!’ and you generally notice that vibe among families - run!

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Anonymous wrote:But why is that wrong? If there are families that are "favorites" at that K-8 level, it seems very likely that they would also be "favorites" at the high school level. Why wouldn't a high school want kids from those families?

If you ran a high school, wouldn't you be more likely to admit kids from families what were beloved in the parochial schools and parishes? I would.

It obviously shouldn't be the determining factor in every case, but I don't see a problem with it being a thumb on the scale if two kids are otherwise equal academically.

Omg, there’s so much wrong with this I can’t even start. This is totally how K-8 Catholic is though for those of you who haven’t experienced it.
There were actually teachers who would bump up test scores for kids from ‘preferred families’ to get those kids into the right high school.
I’ll tell you OP that this doesn’t nothing for your kid in the long term as the prime of their achievement in life is 8th -12th grade. You can’t follow them to college and curry favor for them and thus the endless slide into mediocrity begins. And then your angry kid and their new spouse and kids begins the process at their alma mater to begin the cycle anew.

This is not how it is in our Catholic K-8. Not in the slightest.

Did you ever stop and think that you do not know the whole story, and those kids are working hard for the better grades....?

You're lucky then if that's not what your catholic k-8 is like bc for a lot of schools that's how it is. And no those kids aren't working harder than other kids for better grades. They are usually the kids who do the basic minimum yet somehow magically they get good grades and get selected for choice parts throughout the school. It's really disheartening.

You think it’s weird that you hear parents talking about their kids going to certain private high schools when the kids are only in 2nd grade, but after hearing similar (ramping up) throughout the years and seeing other things over the years you realize that people are dead serious and you and your family are ‘in the way’. Our kids’ school even had a 2nd grade teacher speak regularly in class about which girls she thought would get into Visitation and how they should all desire to do so (but that they wouldn’t all be accepted). Parents speak oncessively about Gonzaga or Prep for their boys in the early grades. The parents would do anything to get their kids in and it starts very very early and some of the things that go on are just wrong. It’s surreal. We switched our kids to a different school.

This sounds awful. Can you please name the K-8 parish schools that are or are not like this?

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Anonymous wrote:But why is that wrong? If there are families that are "favorites" at that K-8 level, it seems very likely that they would also be "favorites" at the high school level. Why wouldn't a high school want kids from those families?

If you ran a high school, wouldn't you be more likely to admit kids from families what were beloved in the parochial schools and parishes? I would.

It obviously shouldn't be the determining factor in every case, but I don't see a problem with it being a thumb on the scale if two kids are otherwise equal academically.

Omg, there’s so much wrong with this I can’t even start. This is totally how K-8 Catholic is though for those of you who haven’t experienced it.
There were actually teachers who would bump up test scores for kids from ‘preferred families’ to get those kids into the right high school.
I’ll tell you OP that this doesn’t nothing for your kid in the long term as the prime of their achievement in life is 8th -12th grade. You can’t follow them to college and curry favor for them and thus the endless slide into mediocrity begins. And then your angry kid and their new spouse and kids begins the process at their alma mater to begin the cycle anew.

This is not how it is in our Catholic K-8. Not in the slightest.

Did you ever stop and think that you do not know the whole story, and those kids are working hard for the better grades....?

You're lucky then if that's not what your catholic k-8 is like bc for a lot of schools that's how it is. And no those kids aren't working harder than other kids for better grades. They are usually the kids who do the basic minimum yet somehow magically they get good grades and get selected for choice parts throughout the school. It's really disheartening.

You think it’s weird that you hear parents talking about their kids going to certain private high schools when the kids are only in 2nd grade, but after hearing similar (ramping up) throughout the years and seeing other things over the years you realize that people are dead serious and you and your family are ‘in the way’. Our kids’ school even had a 2nd grade teacher speak regularly in class about which girls she thought would get into Visitation and how they should all desire to do so (but that they wouldn’t all be accepted). Parents speak oncessively about Gonzaga or Prep for their boys in the early grades. The parents would do anything to get their kids in and it starts very very early and some of the things that go on are just wrong. It’s surreal. We switched our kids to a different school.

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Anonymous wrote:DS is honors at a k-8 and he found out yesterday that some classmates were waitlisted while non-honors girls were accepted. He was joking on the way home that DD (6th grader) should stop studying if she wants to go to all-girls schools. Legacy? Parochial connections? The whole process is a puzzle. The boys' results made more sense, at least at our school.

Which school are you talking about? I’m assuming Visitation.

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He was talking about Visitation.

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Anonymous wrote:But why is that wrong? If there are families that are "favorites" at that K-8 level, it seems very likely that they would also be "favorites" at the high school level. Why wouldn't a high school want kids from those families?

If you ran a high school, wouldn't you be more likely to admit kids from families what were beloved in the parochial schools and parishes? I would.

It obviously shouldn't be the determining factor in every case, but I don't see a problem with it being a thumb on the scale if two kids are otherwise equal academically.

Omg, there’s so much wrong with this I can’t even start. This is totally how K-8 Catholic is though for those of you who haven’t experienced it.
There were actually teachers who would bump up test scores for kids from ‘preferred families’ to get those kids into the right high school.
I’ll tell you OP that this doesn’t nothing for your kid in the long term as the prime of their achievement in life is 8th -12th grade. You can’t follow them to college and curry favor for them and thus the endless slide into mediocrity begins. And then your angry kid and their new spouse and kids begins the process at their alma mater to begin the cycle anew.

This is not how it is in our Catholic K-8. Not in the slightest.

Did you ever stop and think that you do not know the whole story, and those kids are working hard for the better grades....?

You're lucky then if that's not what your catholic k-8 is like bc for a lot of schools that's how it is. And no those kids aren't working harder than other kids for better grades. They are usually the kids who do the basic minimum yet somehow magically they get good grades and get selected for choice parts throughout the school. It's really disheartening.

You think it’s weird that you hear parents talking about their kids going to certain private high schools when the kids are only in 2nd grade, but after hearing similar (ramping up) throughout the years and seeing other things over the years you realize that people are dead serious and you and your family are ‘in the way’. Our kids’ school even had a 2nd grade teacher speak regularly in class about which girls she thought would get into Visitation and how they should all desire to do so (but that they wouldn’t all be accepted). Parents speak oncessively about Gonzaga or Prep for their boys in the early grades. The parents would do anything to get their kids in and it starts very very early and some of the things that go on are just wrong. It’s surreal. We switched our kids to a different school.

NP, but we have had kids in a Catholic elementary for almost 20 years and this does not reflect our experience at all. Not all schools are like this.

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Anonymous wrote:But why is that wrong? If there are families that are "favorites" at that K-8 level, it seems very likely that they would also be "favorites" at the high school level. Why wouldn't a high school want kids from those families?

If you ran a high school, wouldn't you be more likely to admit kids from families what were beloved in the parochial schools and parishes? I would.

It obviously shouldn't be the determining factor in every case, but I don't see a problem with it being a thumb on the scale if two kids are otherwise equal academically.

Omg, there’s so much wrong with this I can’t even start. This is totally how K-8 Catholic is though for those of you who haven’t experienced it.
There were actually teachers who would bump up test scores for kids from ‘preferred families’ to get those kids into the right high school.
I’ll tell you OP that this doesn’t nothing for your kid in the long term as the prime of their achievement in life is 8th -12th grade. You can’t follow them to college and curry favor for them and thus the endless slide into mediocrity begins. And then your angry kid and their new spouse and kids begins the process at their alma mater to begin the cycle anew.

This is not how it is in our Catholic K-8. Not in the slightest.

Did you ever stop and think that you do not know the whole story, and those kids are working hard for the better grades....?

You're lucky then if that's not what your catholic k-8 is like bc for a lot of schools that's how it is. And no those kids aren't working harder than other kids for better grades. They are usually the kids who do the basic minimum yet somehow magically they get good grades and get selected for choice parts throughout the school. It's really disheartening.

You think it’s weird that you hear parents talking about their kids going to certain private high schools when the kids are only in 2nd grade, but after hearing similar (ramping up) throughout the years and seeing other things over the years you realize that people are dead serious and you and your family are ‘in the way’. Our kids’ school even had a 2nd grade teacher speak regularly in class about which girls she thought would get into Visitation and how they should all desire to do so (but that they wouldn’t all be accepted). Parents speak oncessively about Gonzaga or Prep for their boys in the early grades. The parents would do anything to get their kids in and it starts very very early and some of the things that go on are just wrong. It’s surreal. We switched our kids to a different school.

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Anonymous wrote:But why is that wrong? If there are families that are "favorites" at that K-8 level, it seems very likely that they would also be "favorites" at the high school level. Why wouldn't a high school want kids from those families?

If you ran a high school, wouldn't you be more likely to admit kids from families what were beloved in the parochial schools and parishes? I would.

It obviously shouldn't be the determining factor in every case, but I don't see a problem with it being a thumb on the scale if two kids are otherwise equal academically.

Omg, there’s so much wrong with this I can’t even start. This is totally how K-8 Catholic is though for those of you who haven’t experienced it.
There were actually teachers who would bump up test scores for kids from ‘preferred families’ to get those kids into the right high school.
I’ll tell you OP that this doesn’t nothing for your kid in the long term as the prime of their achievement in life is 8th -12th grade. You can’t follow them to college and curry favor for them and thus the endless slide into mediocrity begins. And then your angry kid and their new spouse and kids begins the process at their alma mater to begin the cycle anew.

This is not how it is in our Catholic K-8. Not in the slightest.

Did you ever stop and think that you do not know the whole story, and those kids are working hard for the better grades....?

You're lucky then if that's not what your catholic k-8 is like bc for a lot of schools that's how it is. And no those kids aren't working harder than other kids for better grades. They are usually the kids who do the basic minimum yet somehow magically they get good grades and get selected for choice parts throughout the school. It's really disheartening.

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Anonymous wrote:There is Holton, Madeira, Holy Child, Holy Cross... all of them better than Visi!

And we know this is true because this poster says it is.