Posted on 12/02/2005 9:56:14 AM PST by David9493A
The school is not the main reason why children succeed academically, it is more the child's parents
Catholic schools encourage parents to take an active role in their children's education.
Public schools actively fight to deny parents any role in shaping the values and goals of their children's education.
So it obviously is the schools: Catholic schools as institutions promote better values and a better educational system than public schools do.
The parents care enough to pay for their childs education, so the parents are involved already.
Does the title need to be changed to 'Hype'?
Not true of all public schools. Ours encourages parental participation and visitation.
But public, private or "home school", parents are key to a child's learning.
This post was a waste of time. I am the dumber for having read it. At no point in your post was there anything even resembling a coherant argument.
Public schools don't expel problem students. They put them in special ed classes to get them out of the regular classroom. yet the kids in the regular classroom continue to underperform Catholic school kids, even though more moeny is spent on those regular classrooms.
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LOL, encourage? Yes, indeed. Not only that, they expect it.
"Business ethics."
This is nothing more than a continuation of the attempt to shift blame for failing schools to anywhere but where it belongs. My first child went to public school (believe me I did not realize what a mistake I was making)and the outcome was not at all good. The next 3 went to Catholic schools and all have college degrees, two have advanced degrees, and all are living in ways that make me proud.
I spent 16 years in Catholic schools. My son was in Catholic schools for 9 years. I will acknowledge that his departure wasn't voluntary, so that all cards are on the table. But I have come to the conclusion that, all too often, "Catholic" schools are just expensive private schools with a Crucifix out front. They are not what they once were and that's too bad.
When the assistant principal told my son that they "expected better from a student who was receiving financial aid", that was my "screw you" moment.
And here is the truth: Catholic schools don’t always have the best teachers and certainly don’t have the best facilities; and public schools don’t have the worst teachers and almost always have the best facilities; yet, students in catholic and other private schools do better than students in public schools.
Parents alone cannot countermand all the poor effects of a curriculum laden with PC moral relativist drivel and lacking completely some fundamental subject facts or teaching outright incorrect information to avoid offending some group or another......
Parents cannot overcome the message conveyed to kids in schools where children are socially promoted and where sucesss is measured by how good their peers feel about themselves, not by what they have mastered...
and today, despite the calls for more good people to teach, kids are too often taught by by diversity/nepotism employees who are supervised by even more highly-paid diversity/nepotism hires.
I stuck out four years of Catholic school, and agree with you wholeheartedly. My school didn't even pretend to care about the concerns of students or parents, unless they contributed a healthy sum to the church. I think a lot of people on Free Republic idealize Catholic schools, but they're not automatically superior.
The answer is simple. Become Catholic and see your kids grades improve. = Ain't logic grand.
One thing I noticed, too, was that they were much more interested in having non-Catholic students who pay full tuition than in Catholic students who are subsidized.
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