What kind of advantages are there to Catholic Schools for your child?

[Appleby]

I enjoy hearing other peoples stories too. If I ever get rich, I am going to travel around just asking people to tell me their stories.

 

[mercygate]

Great. She will be shoved off the sidewalk being blamed for Stalin, Hitler, and any other who was not Christian.

No way. She is starting to ask about God on her own.
She is the reason I believed abortion was evil.

She is about as beautiful a thing, I ever saw in my life, or ever will. She is my reason to wonder if God really is someone I pushed out of my life, out of fear of loving.

I wont let her be subjected to bigotry, even though I know she will be. I just cant see or imagine letting her suffer like I did.

believe you are very close to Him.

 

[mercygate]

How can this be? Did their parents not take it seriously?

Or was this a case of child rebellion like kids do?

Well, in a way it will make it easier for my child to fit in, but now I wonder if its needed to help her or if I can just learn enough to try to do so myself if she wants to know more. Maybe she can take some kind of class also, and not go to the school. If she saw no one took it seriously, I think that would stop her from finding any interest in Jesus, like she is showing now.

My daughter went to a “snooty” Catholic girls’ high school. By that I mean it had many hideously wealthy students – names from American social and political life that you would recognize – and ferocious academic standards. These kids graduate and go to places like Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Princeton . . . Although the students were to my mind scandalous in their “sophistication”, spoiled, precocious, and known for evading the age limit on alcohol consumption, to my knowledge, the Sisters were well respected, and nobody would have taunted a girl who expressed interest in Religious life.

When I was commenting on the standards of some of DD’s classmates, her comment was: "Mom, compared to the other schools around here [high-end NYC prep schools] this place is a CONVENT!

 

[notsmart]

The school is not open for business yet, but when I went to the 8:45 am Mass this morning, I tried to check it out from the outside more closely. The parking lot is very small, and could use a few repairs, and its the only place for the kids to play outside it looks like, but there is a nearby park they may take them to.
The building is okay, not modern, its brick and could use some repair work here and there. the windows are large, and everywhere, so I liked that.

My daughter went to a “snooty” Catholic girls’ high school. By that I mean it had many hideously wealthy students – names from American social and political life that you would recognize – and ferocious academic standards. These kids graduate and go to places like Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Princeton . . . Although the students were to my mind scandalous in their “sophistication”, spoiled, precocious, and known for evading the age limit on alcohol consumption, to my knowledge, the Sisters were well respected, and nobody would have taunted a girl who expressed interest in Religious life.

When I was commenting on the standards of some of DD’s classmates, her comment was: "Mom, compared to the other schools around here [high-end NYC prep schools] this place is a CONVENT!

 

[mercygate]

The school is not open for business yet, but when I went to the 8:45 am Mass this morning, I tried to check it out from the outside more closely. The parking lot is very small, and could use a few repairs, and its the only place for the kids to play outside it looks like, but there is a nearby park they may take them to.
The building is okay, not modern, its brick and could use some repair work here and there. the windows are large, and everywhere, so I liked that.

I really admire your care and thoroughness in deciding the best place for your daughter’s education.

I felt the same way, and we sacrificed to send the pumpkin to a school that had high standards, strong spiritual foundation, sense of community – not to mention the dog and the bird. Sending her to solid schools was worth the humongous $$$ outlay – but a normal parochial school is only moderately expensive and often just as good as a pricey private day school. We have a Catholic high school in the neighborhood that charges about one-third of what the big name prep schools charge and the alumnae of that place read like a Who’s Who.

 

[Larowyn]

How can this be? Did their parents not take it seriously?

Or was this a case of child rebellion like kids do?

Well, in a way it will make it easier for my child to fit in, but now I wonder if its needed to help her or if I can just learn enough to try to do so myself if she wants to know more. Maybe she can take some kind of class also, and not go to the school. If she saw no one took it seriously, I think that would stop her from finding any interest in Jesus, like she is showing now.

I think it was because most students there went to the Catholic school because they came from rich families who did not want their precious children sharing classes with kids from poor families. There was a lot of financial class discrimination going on at the Catholic high school I went to; I went because I had trouble in public school and my parents thought it would be a better atmosphere for me (oh, how wrong we were), plus we were and still are devout Catholics. If my parents had more than one kid they wouldn’t have been able to send me.

 

[notsmart]

I happen to be in an area where its hard to justify this, if there is no additional benefits. The public school here is rated very highly, and in fact there is a waiting list! The other options are the other religious schools (there are 2 lutheran ones, but they are not good from what I hear- acedemically speaking) there is a jewish one but they dont take non jews I was told. I cant afford Montesorri, and there is really nothing else.

I had a good public school growing up, but I never was a good student. I was kind of hoping that this school would demand good results and ride the kids a little. Maybe I was picturing a nun standing over them.

We dont have a situation where we would have to “spare her” from “undesireables” in the public school here and therefore “hide” her safely in the catholic one.

The tuition is going to cause me to get a job asap after she is in school though, if I go this route. At least they have an all day K.
And, I suspect that most of the kids parents there make more money than we do, so I would have to anyway.

 

[yellowbird]

I think it was because most students there went to the Catholic school because they came from rich families who did not want their precious children sharing classes with kids from poor families. There was a lot of financial class discrimination going on at the Catholic high school I went to; I went because I had trouble in public school and my parents thought it would be a better atmosphere for me (oh, how wrong we were), plus we were and still are devout Catholics. If my parents had more than one kid they wouldn’t have been able to send me.

I think your unfortunate experience is a good example of how one size does NOT fit all. It’s so important to do as the OP is doing - check out the particular school and really gather as much info as possible to make a good decision.

I’m really hoping that the school her daughter might attend is more like the one my children attend, rather than the one you went to…

To the OP - ask if you can attend a PTO meeting… that might give you an idea of the issues that the school is currently dealing with… also, you could ask for back issues of the newsletters?

And even if everything lines up perfectly, there’s still no guarantee it will be a wonderful experience for your child. Of my slew of children, all love their school except for one of my daughters. Why her exerience with the same families, same teachers, same everything has been so different… I just don’t know.

And finally, to the OP - your previous post about the love you have for your daughter was just beautiful.