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We Catholics also have to bypass many diocesan bureaucrats (collectively Sister Krupskaya Pantsuit) bent on making our parochial schools no better (and no more Catholic) than the gummint ones and actually worrying about such irrelevancies as certification. As a result, some homeschool (as we previously did) and some who are like-minded have banded together in schools run by the parents (which we do now). No more fights with secular or even diocesan bureaucrats over standards.

We started by putting my eldest in the Catholic parochial school where I was educated many years ago. About six times in kindergarten and first grade, she came home complaining that her teachers had told her that Jesus Christ did not know He was God even when dying on the cross. The pastor was perfectly Catholic but busy as a one-armed paperhanger with a disabled assistant pastor in a very large parish. The principal was a feminist ex-nun of very questionable faith hired by politically correct and religiously porous diocesan bureaucrats. I sent her ten single-spaced pages of protest and other sass, thoroughly footnoted to Scripture and Magisterial documents and then, without receiving the courtesy of so much as an answer while they were busy inviting (until stopped by the pastor) the pro-abort "Catholic" Congresswoman to a fund-raiser, I decided that I had better things to do with my life than waste it writing nastygrams to the likes of her and we started homeschooling. Public schooling was never even considered given my wife's experience in them.