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samplegirl

(11,415 posts)
16. Good Luck on this
Fri Jun 1, 2012, 02:20 AM
Jun 2012

I sent my daughter to Catholic Schools for 10 years and really started to hate it by her junior high years. Keep your wallet handy.............you'll need it.
It is clique of a lot of snob noses.
I learned so much from having my daughter in Catholic Schools I could write a book and most of it is negative. It is not worth the money. Public schools offer just as good education and most times are further advanced in terms of scholastic. Public schools offer more classes than Catholic schools. I know this after attending for 12 years myself.
Catholic schools in my opinion are a waste of money and if I had it to do over again I would of never done it. Hope it is not a status school because the snobs kids got the special treament.
I have no idea why you would pick this school for your kid but Catholic Schools are really not that good in anyway these days.

K/R. If you're public school system can't deliver, you need to look at alternatives. NYC_SKP May 2012 #1
SF USD is not all bad. RandySF May 2012 #2
An independent Catholic school is usually more liberal than a Catholic parish school. pnwmom May 2012 #3
It IS Jesuit. :) RandySF May 2012 #4
They believe in thought and logic, so you should be fine. pnwmom Jun 2012 #5
There are other attractive features. RandySF Jun 2012 #12
I hope your son has as good an experience as I did. pnwmom Jun 2012 #15
Daughters attended a great Jesuit school 4-8th grades, and we all loved it. elleng Jun 2012 #6
Get involved both at home and at school ProgressiveProfessor Jun 2012 #7
My kids go to Catholic Schools just so they can get that social justice indoctrination Pirate Smile Jun 2012 #8
Sounds like you're doing what is best for your son Rhiannon12866 Jun 2012 #9
My parents sent me to Catholic school in 1952. Speck Tater Jun 2012 #10
Parochial schools are very different from independent schools. Do you know which you attended? pnwmom Jun 2012 #11
My husband attended Catholic school too, elleng Jun 2012 #13
A typical day: Nun tells me the sun revolves around the Earth... Speck Tater Jun 2012 #17
His experience was not as horrendous as yours. elleng Jun 2012 #18
That sounds more like the Baptist schools where I grew up. RandySF Jun 2012 #20
So your teacher was a contemporary of Galileo? TexasProgresive Jun 2012 #24
Let's just say that the didn't keep current with the latest breakthroughs! Speck Tater Jun 2012 #25
Uniforms are your friend. Lugnut Jun 2012 #14
Good Luck on this samplegirl Jun 2012 #16
Our experience, for our daughters, was nothing like yours, elleng Jun 2012 #19
I was bullied so horribly in Catholic school I had to switch to public Starry Messenger Jun 2012 #21
Plusses and minuses: Smarmie Doofus Jun 2012 #22
My wife and I are both former Catholic School teachers. MarianJack Jun 2012 #23
Well, I reached a point at our current public school RandySF Jun 2012 #26
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