Get out now

[chevyontheriver]

Out of the public schools that is.

https://www.crisismagazine.com/2018/get-out-now-the-compelling-case-against-public-schools

My father was a public school teacher and he got us out of the public schools into either private or Catholic schools for high school. (I went to a private school and my no longer Catholic brother went to a Catholic school.) My children went to Catholic schools all the way (and remained Catholic). Now my grandchildren are facing where they will be educated.

This article cannot address every specific issue, but is generally on target.

Do what you can to assist parents who are trying to educate their children well. Contribute to a Catholic school financial aid program, or help friends and neighbors and relatives struggling to do right for their children. The cost of a Catholic education is quite steep for many in the middle class or especially those less well off who are uncomfortable asking for financial aid. It is a sacrifice. Some parents don't think it is even possible. Give them a hand.

 

[JacobKStarkey]

As a life time educator and business professional, I can attest to the quality of Catholic parochial schools.

 

[chevyontheriver]

As a life time educator and business professional, I can attest to the quality of Catholic parochial schools.

The quality is generally high, although one must always apply the maxim 'caveat emptor'.

Funny, but fewer and fewer people will have studied Latin to know what 'caveat emptor' actually means.

 

[JacobKStarkey]

Watch out for the caviar? LOL!!!

One of the best series of classes I had at state u were the Latin ones taught by a German PhD from Heidelberg who survived the Nazi camps.

 

[chevyontheriver]

Watch out for the caviar? LOL!!!

One of the best series of classes I had at state u were the Latin ones taught by a German PhD from Heidelberg who survived the Nazi camps.

I was referring to high school Latin, which is now rare, even in Catholic schools. Chesterton Academy does teach Latin. Of course colleges and universities would teach Latin as part of their Classics curriculum. But once upon a time most every high school graduate would have known about the caviar.

 

[Davidnic]

I am a proud product of Catholic schools. If we ever decided to not homeschool we would put the kids in the local Catholic school.

 

[LivingWordUnity]

My wife and I tried to enroll our older daughter in a Catholic school for Kindergarten, but she was rejected because she hadn't gone to preschool and didn't have her address memorized. But my wife saw a Protestant couple who were there with their kids trying to get them in, and they got accepted.

 

[Gnarwhal]

My dad retired in 2007 from a 38 year career in public education, and he routinely expresses how glad he is that he was offered early retirement and allowed to get out when he did. His friends who had to wait longer for retirement became angrier as time went by because they've become increasingly hamstrung with regards to how they can discipline and educate their students. Kids have way too much power in the classroom, and it's because parents have way overstepped their boundaries with the public school system.

Now you have the added stupidity of all this manufactured gender identity garbage that the culture is shoving down everyone's throats, and now kids are being forced to decide what they are, something nobody decides to begin with, and certainly something kids don't have the capacity to understand.

I was lucky to attend private Christian school for K-6, and then transitioned to public school for 7-12. By the time I got there my faith values were fairly established in the sense that I understood Christian morality, but that morality also wasn't challenged much by the secular culture at the time.

Given the decision now, if I were a parent I wouldn't even think twice about enrolling my kids in Catholic school for as long as possible, no matter what it takes. I may never been an exceptionally high earner in my field (media), but I would prioritize a proper Catholic education for my kids over any luxuries.

 

[chevyontheriver]

My wife and I tried to enroll our older daughter in a Catholic school for Kindergarten, but she was rejected because she hadn't gone to preschool and didn't have her address memorized. But my wife saw a Protestant couple who were there with their kids trying to get them in, and they got accepted.

That's sad.

 

[eastcoast_bsc]

The quality is generally high, although one must always apply the maxim 'caveat emptor'.

Funny, but fewer and fewer people will have studied Latin to know what 'caveat emptor' actually means.

Learned that 1st year Business school also. "Buyer beware"

 

[chevyontheriver]

I went to public school for most of my school years. My parents wanted to put me in the schooling at our local parish, but some non-Catholic kids received free tuition while some Catholic families like us couldn't afford to pay it. There was a Catholic high school we looked at, but it also was expensive to attend.

We need to figure out how anyone and everyone can afford a Catholic education. Now that you are older, please do what you can to help others afford it. Now that gender ideology is becoming more and more prominent, it is time to find refuge in the sanity of a non-public and Christian education where eternal verities are not scorned. We should be opening these schools up to every Catholic family and even every other kind of Christian family so they do not have to sacrifice their children to the ideology of the age.

 

[ripple the car]

I am a proud product of Catholic schools. If we ever decided to not homeschool we would put the kids in the local Catholic school.

Amazingly, my Protestant husband has said the same. "If we ever have kids, we're either homeschooling, or sending them to Catholic school".