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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?

Blessed Sacrament is like this. Just awful.

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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:https://www.visi.org/uploaded/Admission/2018-2019/2018_ADW_Teacher_Recommendation_Form.pdf

Seems like the parent questions are slightly toned down compared to a few years ago but they are still asking all of your child’s teachers and the school principal to evaluate you as a parent.

I think this form is an opportunity for the K-8 to warn schools about potential parent problems here. Real Pain in the but parents. You know the type, always complaining, their child is special, should be an exception to the rule, or rules are for other people not them, etc. Many of the ADW schools use this form, not just Visi. As long as parents are not a red Flag, I do not think it carries much weight.

The most involved parent at our school with a 1000 volunteer hours, no kidding, DD did not get in.

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

Holy child is absolutely not better then Holy Child