Did any of you attend Catholic school

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Convent school or single sex education? What was your experience?
 
Is that 3 choices or 2?

I went to a co-ed Catholic school and also taught in one.
 
I went to co-ed Catholic grade school, high school, and grad school. Public school for undergrad, but a great Newman Center.
 
Yes I attended Catholic school… from kindergarten through ninth grade a half a year of tenth grade and then due to domestic issues between my parents I went to live with the Sisters of the Good Shepherd. I remember the first day my mother took me to kindergarten, I was screaming and crying as mom was trying her best to assure me everything would be alright. I played hooky the third day … Got caught… First through eighth grade went well…Then after a year and a half in Catholic high Enter the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in my life for the reason I stated. I remember the day I arrived there, I looked at the place and it scared me, It looked like an old castle up on a hill.I think there was an old movie called Trouble with Angels] well the outside resemble that place. It had 4 stories kind of spooky’was built around 1860. Yes I ran away the first week but after that it was alright,The sisters were stern but kind… I would not trade my being in their care and schooling for anything They were the . ones along with mom who instilled the moral values I have to this day… …GOD BLESS.I
 
I forget there are mixed sex schools. I’m considering substituting for Catholic school in my diocese
 
Is it common to go to convent boarding schools or Catholic schools in the US?
 
As far as convent boarding schools, I am sure they are there as private schools, when I was with the Sisters of the Good Shepherd it was by a choice not of my own. Reason stated in last response. As far as going to Catholic grade school and high school yes it is common for one to go if they are catholic.
 
I know it’s often popular to criticize our Catholic schools for being watered down shells of their former selves, but that’s not my overall experience. At a Catholic school, the faith can be infused in everything. Mass and prayer are part of the schedule. Statistically, Catholic school children are far more likely to remain Catholic in adulthood.

Cons are that it is more expensive.

Of course, now I have one child in public school (because he has special needs) and one child being home schooled.
 
Co-ed primary, then female only secondary college
A small college of three hundred girls that is now large and co-ed.
We had nuns, no lay-teachers.
Good, no problems!
There were only 11 girls in my final year of college.

One sweet elderly nun deputized me in my final year to teach her class art.
I doubt that would happen now.
I was so proud of the girls who had little talent yet improved greatly. The girls were trusting and didn’t seem to mind that I was only a student myself.

My sister was in the class. She was the rogue of the class, little pranks she’s engage the rest of the girls in, but she kindly spared me her pranks.
 
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I think there was an old movie called Trouble with Angels
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With Haley Mills. I remember it. Unexpectedly at the end, the mischievous one, the trouble-maker, became a nun, to the horror of her former class-mate ‘partner-in-crime’!
 
I went to coed Catholic grade school and high school. It was a good experience and education, and gave me a firm faith foundation. I went right after Vatican II and had great caring teachers, both lay and religious.
 
There you go, that almost happened to me. I remember my mom told me about Trouble with Angels I saw it when my husband rented it for me. Aren’t memories great?Take care. God Bless
 
I went to public elementary schools for Kindergarden through 8th grade, but attended Catholic Catechism classes from First grade, through Eighth grade. I was Confirmed in Eighth grade, and then Catechism classes ended.

I attended an all-girls Benedictine Catholic high school for grades 9-12 and graduated from there.

High School was rigorous as it was a College Prep. curriculum so I had a lot of homework from the first day of high school until I graduated.

School was strict, as I expected it to be. You were expected to conduct yourself in a certain manner, as young ladies were expected to do.

We had Theology classes throughout high school. Each year we were required to take a Theology class that lasted the length of the whole school year.

We also attended school Masses throughout the school year. For example, there would be a school Mass that we would go to on a particular Saint’s Feast Day.

We were taught by both Nuns and Catholic lay teachers.
 
I went to a parish school from k-8 then attended all girls catholic high school.

I was taught by the SSND in Grammer school a nd Sisters of IHM in high school.
 
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The benefits were being taught by sisters, they were very fair with students. No subjectivity, you either did your work or got a bad grade. No favoritism that I remember. They also taught hygiene, which included modesty.

We attended First Friday Mass and Benediction. We had Stations of the cross during lent. We had confession once a month as a class.

One sister taught piano in the convent, if you wanted lessons.The sisters gave out prayer cards for jobs well done, and in Grammer school, we got Angel stickers too.
 
I went to catholic single sex primary, public single sex High, catholic single sex High, public co Ed. We moved a lot.

The nuns were great. I experienced both good and bad teachers in the public system and in catholic high school
 
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Grades 1 thru 6, public school
Grades 7 and 8, coed catholic school
9 thru 12 - three different coed Catholic High Schools
College - all male Catholic college.
My college days, think the movie Animal House, with a Basilica.
 
Low pay mostly. THe kids are fine, tend to be rich spoiled children, but not many disciplinary issues.
ALso, they will expect you to do EVERYTHING. Get hired to sub for a subject and the next thing you know, you’ll be supervising a study hall, taking down bulletin boards or watching the playground, car-line duty etc.

I forgot to mention Catholic grad school… oops.
 
Catholic elementary & high school. Public college, but now attending Catholic college for degree in Theology.
 
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