Finally going to work in Catholic schools

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After nearly 10 years teaching and substitute teaching in public schools, I’m finally starting as a Catholic school sub on Monday. A small class of third graders. Being able to start the school day with prayer is like…Heaven! I’ll drive farther to sub in a Catholic school too, no problem.

Anyone else transition from public to Catholic school teaching? Please share your experiences!
 
Don’t think that would have a counterpart in public schools. But teaching is teaching, to an extent.
 
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I did some practice teaching in one. You still get your classroom management problems in catholic schools. Kids are kids. Don’t expect them to be all angels. Otherwise, I think you will find more similarities than differences in the kids. The Masses and the daily prayer is maybe what will be different. No dramas though. parents may have higher expectation too.
 
Oh yes, kids are definitely kids. I’ve taught in wealthy areas and low economic areas. I think class size and parental involvement, as you observe, are key factors in classroom management and student performance. When I work in primary classrooms, having parent helpers makes a huge difference.
I’ll be in a class of 12-14. Pinch me. 😇
 
I had 37 kids in my class for about 6 months once. Then they decided to break up the class and I only had 22. (3rd grade, aged 8 to 9) The rest of the year felt like I was in Heaven. 🙂
 
I’ve worked middle school classes with 30-35 kids. All it takes is 2-3 boys competing to see who can be the most disruptive. Now I can identify those kids pretty quick. If they don’t shape up after a warning or two and relocating them within the classroom doesn’t help or isn’t an option…out they go! But I do it calmly. Nothing personal.
 
That’s liekly a Board of Education violation.

This is the point I was trying to make earlier.
I got very tired of the red tape and politics in the Catholic school. The children were wonderful Even the worst kid was better than what my friends in other schools reported. But when anything needed to be canceled it was ALWAYS my religion class. When someone needed to sub or babysit on the playground who did they ask? Me. They skipped my class constantly because it was “just religion” no worries, just say a couple of Hail Marys and call it done. When children who were clearly hurting did poorly in school and i was the only who defended them and asked for intervention, they saw me as a know-nothing because they wanted to fail the kid. No one wanted to have compassion because kids with poor grades brought the averages down.
The parents, who paid high prices to have their kids enrolled felt like they were paying so much we could excuse the random little troublemaker.
It’s not a bed of roses School is school, Parent who want exceptions for their children are the same everywhere.
So glad to be out. It’s much different workign in parishes.
 
By violation, are you referring to the class size, Clare? Or the lack of a T-K aide? If the latter, well–I guess I felt violated. Or terrorized, more precisely. 😱

And, it sounds like you had a tough job indeed. But I’ll bet the kids appreciated you, even if they didn’t always express it.
 
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