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You bet and the non-cherry-picked kids have the objective test scores (Iowa, California, Stanford, PSATs, ACTs, SATs) to prove it. Latin starts in grammar school, correct spelling and grammar taught and required in every subject, Saxon Math, 12 novels a year (House of the Seven Gables, Robinson Crusoe, etc.) in junior high, a senior thesis requirement, rigorous theology, Samuel Eliot Morrison's American History text, Gregorian Chant, Palestrina, American folk songs (not Pete Seeger or PPM but the traditonal kind) and a whole lot more from K-12.

The bishop and many diocesan priests are in love with the school which is also a no Kumbaya zone. It is a work in progress but has given every expectation that, a decade from now, it will be among the very best in the country. It just received an award as one of the top fifty Catholic schools in the US and it is only about nine years old, having begun in the basement of one couple's house.

We don't want to farm you for money and we don't want to give one nickel to a school you would approve. America, it's a great country.

Oh, and many "Catholic" schools in many dioceses are being run into the ground by Sr. Mary Pantsuit and are, in fact, inferior institutions. I had to pull my eldest daughter from first grade at my old "Catholic" grammar school when they taught her about six times in Kindergarten and 1st Grade that Jesus did not really know He was God even when He was on the Cross. The principal was a heathen ex-nun. The pastor was a great Catholic priest but busy as a one-armed paper-hanger and lacked the time to bring the principal to heel. Any private or Catholic school would have a hard time being inferior to public schools but many are working hard at it by demanding teaching "certifications" of their (loosely speaking) teachers so that they can match the institutionalized and agendaed incompetence of J. Random Public School or PS 666. Our "teaching guidelines" are verrrrrry different from those of Sr. Mary Pantsuit and friends. We get results.

Any Catholic school, even those run by Sr. Mary Pantsuit, has the advantage of being able to impose academic and behavioral discipline and standards without a by your leave to the ACLU. We just take a lot more advantage of that freedom than do the Kumbaya schools and the results show it. Oh, and we do not ask diocesan assistance either. We have thorough, quality Catholic education with no strings wanted, accepted or attached. Any parent who does not like it is free to withdraw their kid(s) and choose another school, homeschool or whatever. We draft no one.